Senior Program Manager, Shipbuilding

Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations through autonomous and intelligent platforms.

Saronic Technologies is seeking a Program Manager to own the execution and delivery of major shipbuilding programs. Saronic’s shipbuilding capacity exists at our shipyard in Franklin, LA and Port Alpha in Brownsville, TX. The PM will manage large-scale production and is accountable for cost, schedule, scope, and customer outcomes from contract award through delivery and sustainment.

Saronic’s ships are built at production scale and fielded across a wide and evolving range of complex missions. The Program Manager must pair deep expertise in large-scale shipbuilding and rate production with an instinct for modular kits, payloads, and mission-package integration—understanding how a common hull is configured, re-configured, and sustained to meet diverse customer needs. This role owns the balance between production throughput and mission flexibility.

The Program Manager serves as the primary customer-facing relationship owner. Partnering closely with the internal Saronic growth, engineering, production and quality teams, the right candidate brings the customer fluency to manage government stakeholders and contracts. The PM should also have the acumen to make technical decisions aligned to the customer needs and contract requirements, and the programmatic discipline to deliver a large, complex platform at scale.

Program Ownership & Delivery

• Own end-to-end execution of a commercial and/or Government Shipbuilding program, holding accountability for cost, schedule, scope, and quality from award through delivery and sustainment.

• Serve as a leader and owner of the customer contract, deliverables, milestones, CDRLs, and contractual obligations.

• Build and maintain the integrated program plan, aligning productions scheduled, engineering milestones, and integration timelines to customer commitments.

• Drive risk and opportunity management across the program, escalating and resolving issues that threaten cost, schedule, or performance.

• Report program health, forecasts, and decisions to Saronic leadership and customer stakeholders.

Large-Scale Production Interface

• Partner with the Franklin and/or Port Alpha production team to plan and execute rate production large Ships (autonomous or manned), from long-lead procurement through hull construction, outfitting, and delivery.

• Monitor build sequencing, work breakdown, and production milestones to protect throughput while meeting quality and acceptance criteria.

• Monitor and mitigate production risks—supply chain, labor, tooling, and facility constraints—unique to large-vessel shipbuilding.

• Coordinate with Quality and Production to ensure build configurations and acceptance events meet customer and contractual standards.

Kit & Mission Package Integration

• Own the configuration strategy for the ship class across a variety of mission packages, kits, and payloads on a common production hull.

• Partner with Mission Package Integration Managers to plan integration of bespoke and commercial-off-the-shelf kits into the production and delivery flow.

• Balance production standardization against mission-driven variance, protecting throughput while enabling flexibility.

• Ensure integration timelines, dependencies, and configuration baselines are reflected in the master program plan.

• Capture mission-package lessons learned and feed them back into production and product roadmaps.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, managing expectations, requirements, and relationships across the program lifecycle.

• Elicit and clarify…