Program Manager

Overview :

Rapiscan is an industry leader in cargo vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, and high-threat facilities to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud.

We offer a broad array of scanning system configurations that span power, platforms, and technologies to address each customer’s unique security application requirements.

Our commitment to excellence in imaging performance, innovative design, and uncompromising quality ensures our solutions consistently deliver best-in-class imaging, high reliability, and operator satisfaction, to help customers find threats and contraband with ease and confidence.

The Project Manager (PM) function brings a disciplined approach to project planning and engineering resource management to achieve business performance objectives.

The position requires New Product Development (NPD) project management and planning experience, and enough technical acumen to communicate with engineers to maintain project completion deadlines.

The Project Manager must develop project plans, budgets, resource allocation dependencies / conflict schedules, reports, and presentations for a senior management audience.

The position will report directly to the Senior Director of Research and Development.

Responsibilities :

The Program Manager will work to manage cross functional deliverables within a strong matrix organization. The ownership of programs entails the following :

Build new product development project schedules, budgets, and conduct project meetings.

Build project schedules to assist sales with project quotes and timelines.

Generate statement of work documents for custom projects.

Track projects on the revenue plan and receipt of customer purchase orders to identify engineering resource bandwidth gaps or conflicts for project reprioritization.

Manage resource dependencies among projects.

Build an engineering department resource allocation model to identify bandwidth constraints and conflicts with shifting priorities.

Capture and organize software / hardware bug and change requests for prioritization.

Organize new product development and software development project meetings and produce review slides to report progress.

Track and organize a system compliance testing plan for legacy and future products.

Identify and organize documentation gaps and coordinate a plan for completion, distributing engineering bandwidth appropriately while maintaining project schedules.

Responsible for updating senior management on key issues and elevate any issues that need assistance with resolution. Must have the ability to create and deliver communications appropriate for a senior management audience.

Draft and submit budget, proposals, forecasts, quotes, monthly billing and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary

Be able to analyze and develop potential corrective actions for program slips

Develop and present program performance metrics such as performance against plan, critical path and forecast to complete

Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.

Determine and assess need for additional staff and / or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle

Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle

Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work

Conduct program performance reviews and create recommendations reports to identify successful and unsuccessful program elements.

Develop best practices and tools for program execution and management.

Uphold the company’s core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Teamwork.

Demonstrate behavior consistent with the company’s Code of Ethics and Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to report to their manager or a member of senior management any quality problems or defects in order for corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem.

Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business.

Qualifications :

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar related degree.

Minimum of 5 years direct work experience in a project / program management capacity, including all aspects of product development life cycle management.

Experience leading successful, complex, cross-discipline initiatives required.

Exceptional project / program management competence and skills.

Strong familiarity with project management software required, MS Project, JIRA, DevOps.

Ability to travel within the US and internationally up to 10%.

Pluses

PMP Certification

General understanding of FAR, DFARS, HSAR and Contract Clauses for applicability, overall impact to the organization and program

Background in and understanding in federal acquisition process

Experience in large capital equipment design and installation

Experience with imaging system design projects

Please review our benefits here :

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location and date of hire.

Please note that the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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Poster Link :

OSI Systems, Inc. has three operating divisions : (a) Security, providing security and inspection systems, turnkey security screening solutions and related services;

b) Healthcare, providing patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology and anesthesia systems; and (c) Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, providing specialized electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers with applications in the defense, aerospace, medical and industrial markets, among others.