Senior Program Manager

Job Description: Teledyne Micropac is looking for a Senior Program Manager, Aerospace, Defense, and Space Program Manager.

What you’ll do: The ideal candidate combines strong engineering fundamentals, proven program management expertise, business acumen, and exceptional communication skills. Success in this role requires a leader who communicates early and often, influences stakeholders across a matrix organization, balances customer needs with business objectives, and consistently delivers results in complex, highly regulated environments. Lead development, qualification, production, and sustainment programs from contract award through final delivery. Own program performance across cost, schedule, technical execution, contractual commitments, and customer satisfaction. Develop and maintain integrated program plans, schedules, forecasts, and execution strategies. Monitor program performance, drive corrective actions, and ensure successful delivery of all program objectives. Provide clear and timely program status, risks, forecasts, and recommendations to customers and executive leadership. Serve as the primary customer interface and trusted advisor for assigned programs. Establish strong customer relationships through transparency, responsiveness, and execution excellence. Manage customer expectations, contract changes, and program priorities while preventing scope creep and protecting business objectives. Support proposal efforts, contract modifications, and strategic growth opportunities. Develop and maintain Integrated Master Schedules using Microsoft Project. Perform variance analyses of schedule and cost on a formal and informal basis and present them to senior management (i.e. earned value management system). Lead risk and opportunity management activities, ensuring proactive identification and mitigation of potential issues. Establish recovery plans and drive resolution of cost, schedule, technical, and operational challenges. Ensure disciplined change management and program control processes are maintained. Lead and influence matrixed teams across Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Contracts, Finance, and Business Development. Facilitate effective communication and decision-making among customers, stakeholders, and internal teams. Ensure compliance with contractual requirements, internal procedures, customer specifications, and applicable industry standards.

What you’ll need: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline - required Minimum 10 years of engineering experience in aerospace, defense, electronics manufacturing, optoelectronic, or related technical industries - required Minimum 7 years of Program Management or Project Management experience managing technically complex programs - required Experience with earned value cost accounting and reporting; experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program progress, productivity and variance analysis -required Demonstrated success managing customer-facing programs with responsibility for cost, schedule, technical performance, and contractual commitments - required Strong proficiency with Microsoft Project and integrated schedule management - required Ability to understand technical challenges and effectively communicate with engineering teams, customers, and executive leadership - required Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders in a matrix organization - required Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship management skills -required Master's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration (MBA), or related field - advantage PMP certification - advantage Experience managing aerospace, defense, military, space, or high-reliability electronics programs - advantage Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), technology development, qualification, and production programs - advantage Familiarity with government contracts, military specifications, aerospace standards, and customer-specific quality requirements - advantage Experience with optoelectronic, hybrid, microelectronic, and box-level (PCBA) assembly products - advantage

What we offer: A collaborative, mission-driven work environment Opportunities to grow within a global technology leader Competitive compensation and benefits Paid time off and holidays Retirement savings plans Tuition reimbursement and professional development support Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions. Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.