Title:  Senior Specialist, Program Management

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Program Management

Job Code: 33925

Job Location: Greenville, TX

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The Senior Specialist, Program Management is responsible for managing the material and supply chain cycle, from procurement to delivery. This role involves ensuring the timely and cost-effective acquisition of materials, managing supplier relationships, and coordinating with various departments at multiple sites to optimize the supply chain process.

Key Responsibilities

• Material Program Execution: Oversee the entire material program, managing cost, schedule, and technical performance to ensure project success.
• Inventory Coordination: Coordinate inventory management, including Kits, Spares, and Repairs, at the required locations to ensure timely and efficient supply chain operations.
• Customer Interface: Serve as the primary customer contact for material-related activities, providing status updates and briefings during meetings and reviews with customers, end-users, and executive staff.
• Milestone Management: Establish and monitor execution milestones, ensuring adherence to master schedules and payment milestones.
• Risk and Opportunity Management: Identify challenges, opportunities, and risks across the program, developing strategies to address them effectively.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Engage with engineering, manufacturing, and logistics teams to maintain seamless continuity throughout the program lifecycle, from “cradle to grave.”

Essential Functions:

• Review potential changes in material scope and advise management and customer on the impact.
• Prepare, manage, and forecast material budgets and expenses.
• Direct the work of functional employees in the execution of the assigned projects while establishing and monitoring performance to schedules, plans, and milestones.
• Respond to the customer's needs and be able to respond to quick reaction needs. As required, support request/coordination outside of normal business hours.
• Brief customer, end-user, and upper management on all facets of the assigned projects.
• This role is based on site in Greenville, TX and occasional travel (up to 25% or more based on business needs) will be required. Travel will be to our site in Waco, TX and for customer meetings at least 2 times per year which will be both CONUS & OCONUS. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience with material management related to FAA military programs.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Must Have a minimum Active Secret Clearance, with ability to obtain TS-SCI.
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally based on needs of the business.
• Demonstrated experience with SAP and Supply Chain processes required
• Demonstrated knowledge of FAA qualifications/certification is required
• Demonstrated experience in Commercial, Department of Defense, and/or Military Aviation/Aerospace products development and production
• Demonstrated experience managing developmental, COTS, and baseline efforts
• Demonstrated experience in preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets, and financial terms/conditions of contracts
• Demonstrated project management skills, outstanding communication (both verbally and written), negotiation, organizational, time management, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ablity to interface with engineering, manufacturing, and management personnel.
• Demonstrated capability to manage and work in an environment that is fast-paced, demanding, with a focus on problem resolution and process improvement.
• Demonstrated customer relationship skills.
• Demonstrated experience with full Microsoft Office Suite, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Project.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Knowledge of manpower planning, milestone scheduling, PM tools, and related financial management.
• Experience with Earned Value Management System preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and development of an Integrated Master Schedule preferred.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Power BI dashboards is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize metrics to identify trends and drive results.
• Demonstrated ability to execute program results while maintaining compliance to policies, procedures and process.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement effort through all phases of program execution.
• Active Top Secret clearance desired.

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