Skillbridge: Technical Program Manager
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Job description
This is a position for candidates with research and development (R&D) program management experience. In this role, you will provide key program management support enabling NCT technical staff to deliver innovative solutions to customers in the Cyber, Electronic Warfare, Radio Frequency, and Networking domains. You will help coordinate resources, track progress, facilitate collaboration, and ensure on-time delivery within budget. Your leadership and organizational skills will empower our engineers and scientists to push boundaries and meet critical customer needs.
What You Will Learn
- Exposure to cutting-edge technical work and innovative research.
- Collaborate with a motivated, engaged team of experts pushing boundaries.
- Develop hands-on experience managing complex defense projects.
- Build program management skills through resource coordination and planning, scheduling, and budget oversight.
- Visibility into the end-to-end program lifecycle from concept to delivery.
- Interact closely with customers to understand emerging capability needs.
- Contribute to developing solutions that give warfighters a decisive technology edge.
- Strengthen communication, organization, and leadership skills.
- Advance your career as a program management professional working with pioneering technologies.
What You Will Do
Training & mentorship opportunities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate extensively across technical and functional support staff to enable on-time, on-budget delivery.
- Translate customer needs and advise technical experts on optimal solutions.
- Monitor spending, staffing, schedules, contracts, purchases, and deliverables.
- Manage schedules, resources, and budgets to ensure execution within cost targets.
- Identify, track, and escalate program risks and issues for mitigation.
- Facilitate collaboration through clear communication and information sharing.
- Employ PM best practices and tools to maintain alignment across complex projects.
- Deliver regular project updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership.
- Lead review meetings, inform decision making, and coordinate across project interdependencies.
- Drive achievement of milestones through resource planning and progress tracking., Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:
- Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
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As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
Requirements
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance, * Must be eligible to participate in Fellowship per DoD Instruction 1322.29.
- Must be projected to receive an honorable discharge from the military.
- Must have all TAP and transition requirements completed prior to the start date.
- Must receive approval from the Unit Commander or O4+ in the chain of command.
- Must be located within a commutable distance or willing/approved to relocate to the job location., * Experience planning, staffing, and tracking multi-person projects.
- Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, and financial tracking in Excel.
- Proficiency with collaboration tools such as Confluence and Teams.
- Position may require some amount of overnight travel.
- U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position will need a U.S. Security; clearance within 1 year of start date., * Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
- Initiates, prioritizes, and manages multiple tasks and programs effectively.
- Analytical thinker able to synthesize data.
- Resourceful problem-solver able to spot issues.
- Prior experience managing subcontractors.
- Eager learner focused on continuous PM skills development.
- Collaborative team player passionate about technology.
- Experience managing subcontractors and consultants.
- Skilled at project scheduling, reporting, and stakeholder management.
- Experience in research and development of Cyber, EW, RF or Networking capabilities.
