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Program Manager
- Lockheed Martin (Huntsville, AL)
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**Description:** Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity\. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future\.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve\. We’re creating future\-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision\. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world\. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation\. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity\.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you\.
We are seeking an **experienced Agile Release Train \(ART\) Program Manager to lead the cost and schedule performance of our ART teams\.** The successful candidate will be responsible for resolving roadblocks, ensuring team staffing and capacity, reviewing and approving variances, and prioritizing and resolving impediments\. This role requires strong communication and coordination skills, as well as the ability to drive cost performance, manage risks, and develop decision\-making metrics\. A key aspect of this position will be transforming the culture of the program to embrace agile and iterative development concepts\.
Key Responsibilities:
•Lead the cost and schedule performance of the ART, ensuring timely and within\-budget delivery of program objectives
•Coordinate with OBS managers and RTE to resolve roadblocks and impediments
•Collaborate with OBS leads to ensure team staffing and capacity align with schedule requirements
•Review and approve variances, and provide approval for PI planning outbriefs
•Prioritize and resolve impediments in conjunction with the RTE
•Provide direction to the ART and its teams to meet cost and schedule objectives
•Maintain awareness of TPCL and help define and shape future capabilities
•Guide design concepts and criteria, and integrate new capabilities through PI planning
•Communicate program scope, deliverables, and priorities to the ART team
•Foster bi\-directional and transparent communication with the ART, TED PM, and executive leadership
•Coordinate with cross\-disciplinary teams, including ARTs and OBS functions
•Manage ART risks, determine which risks to elevate to the Program ROMB, and develop mitigation strategies
•Develop and present program metrics, including IBR content, at PDPWG and STAR meetings
•Provide input into CPAR comment responses and coordinate with customers on product status, performance, and challenges/risks
Basic Qualifications:
•Experience with developing, integrating and
managing detailed plans/schedules
• Experience coordinating and managing efforts
across various organizations resulting in
delivering products on\-time and within budget
• Experience presenting and conveying focused
messages to senior level leadership and external
customers
• Must be a US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
Desired Skills:
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience with developing, integrating and
managing detailed plans/schedules in support of
US and FMS DoD missile defense technical
requirements
• Experience with Agile HW and SW development practices
• SAFe Certification in Product Management or Agility
• Experience with Program Baselining and EVM
• Prior Control Account Manager experience
• Experience working closely with the Missile
Defense Agency THAAD Project Office or other
DoD missile defense customers
• Experience with competitive DoD contract
efforts
• Technical Lead experience on defense
contracts exceeding $30 million annual value
**Security Clearance Statement:** This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration\.
**Clearance Level:** Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
**Expression of Interest:** By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match\. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings\.
**Ability to Work Remotely:** Onsite Full\-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility\.
**Work Schedules:** Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees\. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed\. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits\.
**Schedule for this Position:** 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer\. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics\.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 \- 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration\.
At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges\. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work\.
With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel, develop, and boost agility\. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work\. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility\.
If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role\. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs , and apply for roles that align with your qualifications\.
**Experience Level:** Experienced Professional
**Business Unit:** SPACE
**Relocation Available:** Possible
**Career Area:** Program Management
**Type:** Full\-Time
**Shift:** First
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