Program Manager

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life‑saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Responsible for managing programs with multiple projects that contain related strategic initiatives. Also responsible for managing projects as needed, managing scope, cost, schedule, internal staffing and outside vendors, and contractual deliverables. Demonstrates competency mastery and is recognized as an authority on the subject by peers.

• Lead large high‑tech, regulated, product development programs made of up multiple projects with complex scopes, large project teams or high levels of risk, while identifying new business opportunities.
• Responsible for the overall success of a program including guiding projects within the program to be on‑time, on‑budget, and meeting or exceeding applicable quality standards.
• If/when managing individual projects, responsible for project planning, staffing, budget, schedule, vendor management, and contractual deliverables.
• Understands, communicates, and convinces others about major programmatic tradeoffs and decisions. High level program awareness to identify risks or necessary direction changes early in a program. Responsible for milestones being met across the assigned program.
• Responsible for identifying, mitigating, managing, and coordinating risk across the assigned program.
• Applies critical thinking and problem solving at a business level.
• Generates and updates all necessary reports and presentations to communicate program status, obtain necessary support, and maintain accountability.
• Coordinate customer‑specific processes for continuity across projects (i.e., IT onboarding, customer‑specific training, etc.).
• Maintain positive working relationships within projects and programs.
• Participate in conferences and other BD events to encourage lasting relationships with customers and industry partners. May focus on specific industry or product.
• Supports AM with the business expansion portion of sales. Maintain positive, long‑term working relationships with current customers. Leader for strategic phasing on large complex projects, practicing top‑down estimating tactics.
• Support all proposals within the program. Mentor project managers as needed in gathering requirements, estimating scope, writing proposals, and strategically articulating product/project risks and assumptions. Projects may be large, high‑tech, and regulated with high levels of risk and scope complexity. Participates in marketing strategy discussions and implementation. Generates complex marketing materials under the direction of marketing personnel.

• Adheres to ALTEN Technology Quality Management System processes by reviewing, comprehending and maintaining training requirements of position. May support internal and external audits. Identifies and supports process improvements with the assistance of the QA department.
• Adheres to Scalable Product Development Processes (SPDP) by reviewing, comprehending and maintaining training requirements of position. May support internal and external audits. Identifies and supports process improvements with the assistance of department director.
• Identifies and supports process improvements within the Programs Group.
• Completes training directed by managers: webinars, lunch & learns, and other internal/external learning opportunities.
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