Program Manager

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When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD).

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This is a technical design & build Program Management role responsible for planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling multi-million dollar fixed-price non-recurring engineering programs, with the focus of delivering payment and information solutions and related services for intelligent travel applications, such as rail, subway, and bus, for major municipalities specific to automated toll-fare collection programs applicable to the Cubic Transportation Systems company.

The primary focus for this position is to serve as the customer-facing Program Manager for major municipalities with primary focus in the throughout New York City and its surrounding areas. The position is preferred to reside in on the east coast ideally with in NY, or DC with travel be expected 10%-20% to the CTS headquarters in San Diego and CTS NY regional office if based outside NY.

The Program Manager is responsible for both managing the customer relationship and expectations per the contractual boundaries as well as the overall health of the program’s execution pertaining to system development, ensuring that engineering solutions are proposed, implemented and delivered to the agreed scope, budget, and schedule. Strict adherence to program cost controls through earned-value management is required. Experience in product or system solution development pertaining to fare collection and bank transactions a plus.

This position will be required to provide program leadership and positive customer relationship with minimal oversight, operating with significant independence and minimal supervision. Willingness and desire to proactively motivate and drive a toward common results and tackle issues immediately is a must.

• Responsible for using best practice PMO methodology to create a project management plan to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes
• Manages, oversees, monitors and approves elements of assigned programs from inception to completion including proposal development, product design, procurement, subcontracting, manufacturing, testing, delivery, installation and acceptance of products, ensuring adherence to budget, schedule and contract requirements
• Develop and manage complex development schedules with Primavera Scheduling personnel support
• Ensure on-time delivery of the deliverables across program
• Manages the customer and the customer expectation, including the boundaries of scope control with the customer and customer expectation is a must
• Develops and maintains a project risk register and successfully manage program risk and ensures risk exposure is minimized and mitigated
• Conducts program coordination meetings and participate in program reviews
• Plans and ensures resources are available for programs such as engineering, manpower, production, computer support and facilities
• Ensures that scope creep, communications, and quality are carefully managed
• Works with finance team to determine appropriate cost settlements, monitors receivables, and increase overall profitability for the program
• Owns and presents program status to executive leadership team on a monthly basis
• Creates partnership with internal customer (Product Development Program Management) and stakeholder, including Global and Regional Product Managers (Product Lifecycle Owners)
• Proactively confronts issues openly and quickly
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors and peers
• Able to communicate at all levels in the customer and internal organization
• Possesses the expert knowledge to identify opportunities for change and…