Technical Program Manager

Mount Indie; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Indie seeks a Program Manager to lead DoD programs for airborne platforms, integrating advanced communications and networking technologies. You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, oversee development, testing, and field demonstrations, and ensure warfighter needs drive solution design.

You will coordinate with customers and engineering teams to meet schedule, cost, and technical requirements while guiding strategic growth and portfolio expansion in TACAIR platforms and related systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering field or related engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain strong working relationships with partners, customers, and industry stakeholders to expand our various airborne platform Business Areas
• Deliver innovative software, network, and hardware solutions to enhance network and IP-based communications
• Ensure cost, schedule, and technical requirements are met for all responsible projects
• Work alongside engineering teams to optimize exchange of key metrics and resolve road blocks
• Incorporate real-world operators into our development process to understand needs and requirements from an end-user point of view
• Provide input for strategic growth of the portfolio through project planning and proposals
• Insert focus on fixed wing tactics and C2 integration into our system demonstration and experimentation
• Ensure system development environment and system attributes align with DoD security requirements
• Participate in demonstration planning with customers, engineering teams, and overarching experiment managers
• Execute technical demonstrations
• Oversee critical system integration and field events meet system objectives and customer expectations

Skills

Program management

Team leadership

Strong communication

EVM

MS Project

Jira

Airborne systems

DoD knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Jira

MS Project

Job description

Mount Indie is looking for a Program Manager to lead various Department of Defense customers in the development, integration and demonstration of advanced communications and networking technologies onto airborne platforms - driving long term growth for these business areas. This role will oversee and manage all aspects of project execution and provide strategic guidance through all phases of development while ensuring that warfighter needs and requirements are integrated into our solutions. Our work focuses on DoD network and tactical communications providing a variety of communications abilities to TACAIR USN, USAF, and USMC platforms including tactical data links, line-of-sight and beyond line-of-sight radios, and crossbanding of IP data. This engineering-minded Program Manager must be passionate about enhancing operator capabilities with user-focused communication, network, and software systems with a solid foundation in project management fundamentals.

What you'll do:

• Create and maintain strong working relationships with partners, customers, and industry stakeholders to expand our various airborne platform Business Areas
• Deliver innovative software, network, and hardware solutions to the that enhance network and IP-based communications
• Ensure cost, schedule, and technical requirements are met for all responsible projects
• Work alongside engineering teams to optimize exchange of key metrics and resolve road blocks
• Incorporate real-world operators into our development process in order to understand needs and requirements from an end-user point of view
• Provide input for strategic growth of the portfolio through project planning and proposals
• Insert focus on fixed wing tactics and C2 integration into our system demonstration and experimentation
• Ensure system development environment and system attributes align with DoD security requirements
• Participate in demonstration planning with customers, engineering teams, and overarching experiment managers
• Execute technical demonstrations
• Oversee critical system integration and field events meet system objectives and customer expectations

Requirements

We are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering field of study or Bachelor's degree with related experience in an engineering field
• 8 -12 years of hands-on experience in designing, development and implementing technical systems
• Experience managing various projects and leading teams in the engineering development, testing and deployment of complex systems
• Experience with DoD R&D process and life cycle management
• Operational or developmental background with airborne platforms and systems
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira, or similar PM tools, and exposure to Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Excellent organizational, communication, presenting, and decision-making skills.
• U.S. citizen
• Current US SECRET Clearance

Nice to have:

• Management Degree, MBA, or similar certification (such as PMP)
• Experience leading development of software based systems
• Understanding of networking and network troubleshooting
• Experience with military airworthiness certification