Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

Location: Irvine, CA

DZYNE has an immediate need for a talented Senior Program Manager who will join our industry-leading team at our location in Irvine, CA. The Senior Program Manager will provide leadership for our Loitering Munitions program. This program is a top priority at DZYNE with high visibility to both senior leadership and key customers. This program will deliver technology that is transformative to our customers and will become a mainstay in existing UAS layered defense networks.

This role will coordinate the engineering, testing, and demonstrations of this product both inside and outside the United States. Alongside the Chief Program Engineer and other project leadership, the Senior Program Manager will coordinate a team of over 30 engineers and multiple subcontractors to bring this critical warfighter technology to full-rate production.

If you are looking for an opportunity to use your skillset on a program that is a top priority to your employer, your customer, and the warfighter, then this is the right role for you.

Senior Program Manager

Irvine, CA

• Drive the timely delivery of a multi-faceted, complex, loitering munitions project where speed to market is critical for commercial success
• Manage large teams working on multiple parallel efforts, including teams stationed outside of the United States
• Oversee critical subcontractors including evaluation, selection, scoping, and technical execution
• Own program execution plans, schedules, and budgets while participating in all phases of program work from conceptual design to manufacturing, delivery, and sustainment
• Ability to travel as needed for customer meetings, demonstrations, and business development activities
• Provide critical project updates to clients, staff, and executive leadership
• Prepare the Master Phasing Schedules, Program Execution Schedule, Staffing Plan, Work Breakdown Structure and Financial Execution Plan
• Prepare and present monthly technical and financial program reports to senior and executive management, including Earned Value Metrics (EVM)
• Lead proposal development, including technical volume and cost volume basis of estimates
• Expert knowledge of the entire Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Project
• Positive, “can-do” attitude and talent/experience leading people in a matrixed organization and cultivating a healthy customer relationship

Understanding of Critical Chain Project Management, Earned Value and other project controls methods as they pertain to the Aerospace and Defense industry.

• Experience across the product lifecycle
• Experience in enterprise resourcing and planning tools
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary engineering functions
• Ability to interpret engineering technical drawings, work instructions, and test procedures.
• Aerospace or Defense Contractor industry experience
• Experience transitioning a product from LRIP to full-rate production and sustaining once in full-rate production

• Bachelor's degree in STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math)
• Experience managing fast-paced hardware programs from development stages to LRIP
• Minimum of 15+ years of industry experience in Program Management with at least 5 years of experience as a Senior Program Manager
• Skilled in the use of IT tools, including ERP, MRP, and Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Experience in proposal generation and capture
• Experience in expanding programs beyond initial phase and customer
• High-level of EVM competency
• Proven ability, capacity, and aptitude with planning, organizing, supervising, coordinating technical work, and obtaining cooperation from others (must be able to build rapport with program staff)
• High level of scheduling skills (agile program management methodology a plus)

Security Clearance Not Required (Preferred)

Occasional travel (10-15%)

The diversity of work conditions may range from an environment where there is little or no physical discomfort, such as a general office environment to warehousing to potentially austere…