Program Manager for Undersea Systems

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Summary
The Program Manager for Undersea Systems oversees all undersea projects, coordinating with essential personnel to ensure adherence to quality policy, customer requirements, and project schedules. This role includes coordinating with purchasing, construction, integration, and delivery teams to deliver final products on time and within specifications.

• Manage multiple simultaneous projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors, and vendors.
• Liaison between all functional groups – Operations, Sales, Clients, Engineers, and other technical leaders.
• Evaluate risk associated with technical feasibility, constructability, scope, costs, and guarantee.
• Maintain technical understanding of composites, additive manufacturing, and undersea technologies, and serve as ongoing technical resource consultant for clients.
• Actively supports the sales process and effectively interacts with customers, sales, and operations to create value propositions.
• Prepare presentation content collaboratively with other team members for client and prospect demonstrations and proposals.
• Represent CET at relevant off‑site meetings, events, and industry related functions.
• Provide ongoing support to ensure client retention.
• Provide technical leadership for large‑scale engineering projects.

This position may have supervisory responsibility.

This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and projectors. It also requires time spent on the shop floor and exposure to shop elements including noise, moving parts, dust and fumes.

Employees are regularly required to work in noisy, dust‑filled spaces, climb on and around large structures, lift heavy materials, sit or stand for extended periods of time, and perform other physical tasks as necessary.

This is a full‑time salaried position, Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. The position may require longer hours and weekend work.

Some travel is expected.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Expert attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Solid computer skills.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English.

• Project management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge and experience in composite production and manufacturing processes and techniques.
• Knowledge of composite raw materials.

Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, and responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Activities, duties, and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Project Management and Information Technology

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Newport, RI | Rhode Island, United States