# Senior Program Manager

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,100.00 - $251,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos' Defense Sector - Advanced Materials & Test Division is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join a team of scientists, engineers, and program staff focused on advancing Hypersonic Systems and implementing defense solutions.

The Senior Program Manager will lead a program team involved with advanced manufacturing of missile systems and test platform components. The position involves planning, tracking, and execution of complex tasking within technical, schedule, and budget constraints.

Key responsibilities:

- Communicate regularly with government and prime customers and other external stakeholders to build and maintain strong relationships

- Set expectations and guide the direction of work of the internal team

- Develop and implement execution and growth strategies for the program

- Work with program team leads and Division leaders to develop staffing plans

- Develop financial budgets, metrics, and targets to successfully execute the required work

- Provide regular, detailed, internal reporting

- Travel up to 25% for test events and technical interchange meetings

Basic qualifications:

- Active DOD clearance at the SECRET level or higher

- Bachelor's Degree in science or engineering

- 15+ years of prior relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or 13+ years with a Master's degree

- Prior experience in a program management or deputy program management role for a program with more than $30M in annual value

- Prior experience leading programs or tasks involving the development, prototyping, or launching of flight vehicles for Department of War applications

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience leading programs or tasks focused on flight testing missiles, rockets, or similar flight vehicles at government test ranges

- Advanced degree in business, science, or engineering

- Strong understanding of hardware development, manufacturing, procurement, production, and integration in an AS9100 environment

- Working knowledge of missile systems

- Proven experience developing, maintaining, and managing to detailed program schedules and financial plans

- Proven experience leading through dynamic program start-up or substantial program growth phases

- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a highly dynamic program environment with shifting priorities, requirements, and funding allocations

## Skills

### Required
- program management
- engineering
- hypersonic systems
- defense solutions
- missile systems

### Nice to have
- flight testing
- AS9100 environment
- matrixed scheduling staff
- program finance staff

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