Program Manager

ATI has been named "Best Places to Work in SC" from 2017 - 2026.

This is a full-time opportunity with benefits

ATI provides Medical, Dental and Vision Plan options

Flexible Spending Accounts, including health and dependent care accounts

403B Retirement Savings plan with a very competitive company contribution

Personal time-off (pre-loaded & accrued) plus 12 paid holiday-days

Life Insurance paid by ATI

Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Coverage paid by ATI

Employee Assistance Program

Tuition Reimbursement Program

ATI's standard business hours are Monday-Friday, between 8 AM - 5 PM.

ATI builds and manages collaborations that conducts research and development of new technologies to solve our nation’s most pressing challenges. Our collaborations are custom-built teams of organizations from industry and academia that develop novel technologies for the federal government. Traditionally, these processes are complicated and burdensome. That’s where ATI comes in. We simplify and streamline processes to make it all work.

When you work at ATI, you become a part of something larger than yourself. Our collective work – no matter what department or division you work in – ultimately enables the warfighter, saves lives, and diversifies the industrial base. At our core, ATI is a service organization. We are in service to others; it’s what we do, and it’s who we are.

We offer a hybrid schedule (in-office & remote/work from home) or an onsite schedule and flexible hours. Candidates will need to reside near Charleston, SC to ensure work site flexibility.

The Program Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of projects and supporting program operations for ATI’s submarine and shipbuilding industrial base portfolio and related defense industrial base efforts. This role plans, organizes, directs, and controls program and project activities to accomplish sponsor and business goals within cost, schedule, and performance requirements. The Program Manager exercises discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance to the business and typically operates with a high degree of autonomy.

• Manages a portfolio of projects across various stages of development and execution, including project startup, award, execution oversight, issue resolution, reporting, and closeout.
• Oversees project and program planning activities, including scope refinement, statements of work, proposals, deliverables, baseline development, kickoff coordination, new-start activities, and actions needed to improve project agreement or procurement lead times.
• Ensures compliance with program and project contracts, agreements, deliverables, schedules, budgets, and reporting requirements, and oversees project controls related to scope, cost, schedule, risk, and performance, including some form of Earned Value Management, as required by the program.
• Works with finance and project teams to understand program-level financial status, support budget planning, review and approve financial and project documentation, and facilitate resolution of cost, schedule, contractual, technical, and execution issues across the assigned portfolio.
• Supervises and provides direction to project managers and other assigned staff, including workload balancing, development planning, coaching and day-to-day operational support.
• Coordinates with technical staff, contracts, finance, communications, and leadership to ensure integrated program execution and effective communication across internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads recurring program meetings, portfolio reviews, customer engagements, project review sessions, program briefings, technical transfer events, customer reports, presentations, white papers, and related…