What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager position at Wilcox Industries?
If you are ready to take on a fresh challenge, grow your career, and contribute to supporting homeland defense and armed services, Wilcox Industries is ready to help you achieve your goals. We seek an experienced Program Manager to play a critical role in our organization, overseeing and managing complex technical programs to ensure cost, schedule, performance, and risk objectives are met. This position requires a strong understanding of the defense industry, the technologies associated with our combat systems and Headborne systems products, as well as excellent project management skills. Program Managers are responsible for maintaining operational excellence throughout the entire product lifecycle and will coordinate product strategy, product development, transition to production, and production sustainment efforts. Program Managers make data-based decisions, and propose solutions based on the data available to them.
Roles & Responsibilities
**Compensation offered may vary depending upon job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Wilcox provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Roles & Responsibilities
- BS in an engineering, computer science, or related technical field, or a BA in a business discipline and 3 years’ experience leading highly technical projects, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Excellent project management skills, including the ability to develop and execute program plans, schedules, and budgets.
- Proven track record of successfully managing complex technical programs, preferably in the defense industry.
- Effective leadership, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate, lead, and influence cross-functional teams.
- Experience with risk management, issue resolution, and performance monitoring.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite, including Microsoft Project.
- Experience in a customer-facing role.
- Regular on-site attendance is a necessary function of this position.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% as required.
- Wilcox is a U.S. government defense contractor, and this position requires access to export-controlled technology. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access U.S. government-controlled technology prior to beginning work.
- Experience with military procurement and government contract administration.
- Experience with US Department of Defense contracts and requirements.
- Engineering or technically equivalent degree from an accredited university strongly preferred
- Project management or operations experience at a manufacturing company.
- Experience using SAP Business One, JIRA, SolidWorks is a plus.
**Compensation offered may vary depending upon job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Wilcox provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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