Program Manager

Mason Controls

United States, California, Sylmar

Feb 06, 2025

Position:
Program Manager

Location:

Sylmar, CA

Job Id:
469

# of Openings:
1

Program Manager

Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transdigm, offers world-class control devices and subsystems - such as control grips, throttles, HaWC controllers, and communications interfaces - for today's advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications. Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components.

Summary

The Program Manager works closely with Engineering Department Managers to achieve department goals of on-schedule, on-budget deliveries of hardware, software, electronics, and data items. The Program Manager is responsible for major programs from receipt of contract through final delivery of production documentation package to Manufacturing/Operations.

Position Duties

Essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to:

Disseminates program requirements to each department in the company.
Utilizing Microsoft Project as the primary scheduling tool, Program Manager coordinates, directs and controls all activities necessary to achieve satisfactory program completion within schedule and budget constraints.
Conducts periodic meetings with various departments in order to review program milestones. At the Program Manager's discretion, meetings may be within the purview of Mason's Concurrent Product Development Guidelines or outside these guidelines.
Reviews, discusses and resolves program issues with the various departments at Mason Electric.
Obtains ultimate goals for the program through prompt identification of high risk conditions and employs trade-off studies, in cooperation with other Engineering Department members, to mitigate risk.
Teams with Finance, Contract Administration and Sales and Marketing to assist negotiations with program customer on pre-award contract terms and conditions, and post-award changes-of-scope to existing programs.
Primary customer interface on major post-award engineering development contracts.
Prepares and presents Monthly Program Reviews to Senior Management to review status of schedule, financial, risk mitigation, manpower loading, and other aspects of each major program. Utilizes Microsoft PowerPoint for presentations.
Prepares and presents, using Microsoft PowerPoint and other means, Program Reviews for customer representatives either at Mason Electric or customer-designated sites.
Creates and maintains an updated Subcontractor Data Requirements List (SDRL) database which includes pricing and delivery lead-times.
Contributes module writing to proposal efforts when appropriate.
Develops, implements, and evaluates Program Office policies, procedures and standards.
Develops, implements, and maintains metrics to evaluate Program Office performance.

Other Duties

Understands and lives by Company's ethics and business conduct policies.
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Operations/Business Management
Proven ability to manage cross-functional resources to meet customer requirements for deliverables, on-time and on-budget.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal
Demonstrated excellent organizational skills
Proven ability to manage and support multiple programs simultaneously
Familiar with Work Breakdown Structure generation
Working familiarity with Microsoft Project
Minimum 5 years' experience in Aerospace & Defense industry
MBA (preferred)
Leadership experience (preferred)

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard reach, stoop kneel to install computer equipment
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
Light to moderate lifting is required
Ability to uphold the stress of working in a busy and demanding office
Regular, predictable attendance is required;

Pay Compensation Range: $120,000- $160,000

Other

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This position requires either U.S persons (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non [1] U.S person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization(s).

Mason prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.

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