Program Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $130,000 - $165,000

Job Summary :

Provide coordination and oversight to key ThinKom programs including internal research & development, and customer funded projects. Program management at ThinKom includes typical project management duties such as cost and schedule management, resource management, and providing status to key customer and internal stakeholders. Technical knowledge is also needed for engineering coordination, effective planning, and customer communication. Program Managers will often have more than one project at any given time.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Develops technically soundproject plans, schedules and budgets, to meet both customer and internal, technical and contractual requirement
• Identifies resource needs (this position will typically not have direct reports) from the larger engineering staff pool
• Manages tasks and resources to the established budget and schedule, developing and implementing corrective action and recovery plans when the project falls behind schedule or runs over budget
• Chairs frequent meetings, normally at least weekly, with the project team to assign tasks, review status, discuss issues, make decisions and work problem resolutions, minimizing and eliminating barriers to program success
• Interacts with outside suppliers to help manage requirements, schedule and cost issues related to specific components and / or services being purchased from the particular supplier
• Manages the customer relationship through effective and frequent communication as the primary point of contact
• Creates and presents effective PowerPoint presentations for in-depth design reviews, both internally and for customer milestones
• Assesses, manages, and communicates project risk
• Communicates internally with management regarding program status and needs, identifying issues and recommending solutions
• Manages and maintains scope changes whether from the customer or internally driven
• Identifies additional sales and up-scope opportunities based on conversations and interactions with customers
• Provides inputs to support new business proposals
• Supports Production Reviews
• Aids in the transition of a design from engineering to production and assists in mitigation of production issues
• Supports production customer related issues
• Other tasks as assigned from time to time

Skills and / or Experience Needed :

Language Skills :

Reasoning Abilities :

Additional Skills and Experience Preferred (Not Required)

Additional Requirements :

Physical Demands :

ThinKom offer generous benefits including : Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, 401k Matching (4%), PTO, paid Holidays and Bonus Plan.

ThinKom Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

ThinKom Solutions is a Drug and Alcohol free working environment with a zero-tolerance policy.