Senior Program Manager

• Manage a staff of Program Managers if required to deliver products and services that meet and often exceed the customers expectations.
• Keep the Director of Programs and/or Leadership Team informed of all program progress.
• Set objectives assign tasks allocate budgets and agree to timetables for achieving intermediate and overall goals.
• Align the outcome of the projects with the organizations overall business roadmap and goals.
• Communicate strategy to the project team and ensure that individual project goals align with the strategy.
• Identify and evaluate B2B (Business to Business) partnership opportunities.
• Develop and maintain program plans schedules and budgets to achieve cost schedule and performance targets.
• Plan the Short-Term Forecast for revenue and order tracking.
• Conduct order management to balance internal and external priorities.
• Forecast material requirements to support program production increases.
• Plan programmatic milestones and reviews to meet overall program objectives and work to align resources to accomplish goals.
• Support the Director of Programs and/or Leadership Team in establishing a formal reporting structure to obtain the information needed to coordinate and monitor progress across all projects.
• Plan formal product development and product improvement programs that determine specifications for new products and improvements to existing products to create and/or meet projected market demand.
• Manage subcontractors and suppliers in coordination with Supply Chain Management to ensure compliance with contractual obligations quality standards and establish working relationships external to Wilcox to leverage in future growth.
• Support internal business development activities including proposal development and resource planning.
• Develop execute and deliver quality solution-focused client presentations targeting clients from staff to C-level.

• BS in an engineering computer science or related technical field or a BA in a business discipline and 10 years experience leading highly technical projects or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent project management skills including the ability to develop and execute program plans schedules and budgets.
• Proven track record of successfully managing complex technical programs preferably in the defense industry.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent mentor and leadership skills.
• Experience with risk management issue resolution and performance monitoring.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite including Microsoft Project.
• Regular on-site attendance is a necessary function of this position.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% as required.
• Wilcox is a U.S. government defense contractor and this position requires access to export-controlled technology. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access U.S. government-controlled technology prior to beginning work.
• Regular on-site attendance is a necessary function of this position.

• Masters degree in engineering computer science business or related technical field.
• Certificate in Project Management Professional (PMP) Agile Program Management: Certified Product Owner or Certified Scrum Master

• Must be able to sit stand walk talk hear; use hands and fingers to handle and touch objects tools or controls to work in a production environment. Vision abilities required include close vision distance vision color vision and the ability to adjust focus to work. Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times.

Wilcox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by federal state or local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.