Program Manager 2

<p><strong>Job Overview </strong></p> <p>The Program Manager 2 supports the planning, execution, and delivery of aerospace, defense, and advanced technology programs across the company's product portfolio. Working in support of Senior Program Managers and the Portfolio Director, this role manages defined programs, projects, workstreams, or portions of larger programs to achieve Cost, Schedule, and Performance (CSP) objectives. The Program Manager 2 serves as a key execution leader within the portfolio, coordinating activities across engineering, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, contracts, quality, and test organizations to maintain executable program plans, track performance, identify and mitigate risks, resolve execution issues, and meet customer and contractual commitments. This role provides Senior Program Managers and the Portfolio Director with accurate and timely program information, analysis, and recommendations necessary to make informed business and execution decisions. The Program Manager 2 is expected to operate with increasing independence while appropriately escalating issues, risks, and decisions that require Senior Program Manager or Portfolio Director involvement.</p> <p><strong>Essential Functions </strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage Cost, Schedule, and Performance (CSP) for assigned programs, projects, workstreams, or portions of larger programs in support of Senior Program Managers and the Portfolio Director.</li> <li>Support Senior Program Managers and the Portfolio Director in developing and executing program and portfolio strategies, priorities, milestones, customer commitments, and business objectives.</li> <li>Provide timely, accurate, and objective program information to Senior Program Managers and the Portfolio Director, including program health, financial performance, schedule status, risks, opportunities, resource constraints, and recommended actions.</li> <li>Coordinate cross-functional execution across engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, contracts, and test organizations to ensure program activities remain aligned with established objectives.</li> <li>Develop, maintain, and manage Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), program action plans, milestone plans, and other execution tools for assigned scope.</li> <li>Monitor program performance against established cost, schedule, technical, and contractual baselines and identify emerging variances, issues, and trends requiring corrective action or escalation.</li> <li>Partner with Finance and Senior Program Managers to develop and maintain program budgets, Estimates to Complete (ETC), Estimates at Completion (EAC), spend plans, staffing forecasts, and financial performance reporting.</li> <li>Analyze program financial performance, including actual costs, forecasts, variances, and potential impacts to program profitability, and develop recommended corrective actions.</li> <li>Identify, document, assess, and manage program risks and opportunities for assigned scope, including development and tracking of mitigation and realization plans.</li> <li>Coordinate engineering development, integration, manufacturing, test, qualification, delivery, and fielding activities to ensure program milestones and customer requirements are achieved.</li> <li>Support development and maintenance of program execution plans, Integrated Master Plans (IMP), resource forecasts, risk registers, action-item trackers, and other program management artifacts.</li> <li>Support and participate in program reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews, design reviews, customer meetings, Program Management Reviews (PMRs), and portfolio-level reviews.</li> <li>Prepare and present program status, schedule performance, financial