Program Manager

Are you a Program Manager looking to join one of the top companies in the Aerospace and Defense industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have program performance or management experience?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work onsite with our client in Binghamton, NY. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Develop a trusted relationship with the customer and a keen understanding of their mission, success definition, and program / contract requirements.
• Understand and take ownership of program performance.
• Accurately assess and communicate program status to leadership and members of the program team.
• Direct all phases of the program from inception to completion to include design, development, production and sustainment phases.
• Develop relationships with program team members and lead the program team in successful execution.
• Hold self and team accountable to program performance.
• Develop concepts for growth and enhancements based on the customer's mission, value set, and needs.
• Support program growth initiatives including program bid and proposal activities.
• Ensure that requirements of the request for proposal are met in the preparation and documentation of bids and proposals.
• Develop and implement plans and schedules to execute contracts/subcontracts.
• Allocate and control contract budgets for labor, material, travel, and purchased services.
• Report program status to senior management monthly.
• Development and maintenance of the program integrated master schedule to include the internal and external milestones and phases as established by the respective program teams.
• Establish and monitor adherence to program master plans and schedules, identify program problems, obtain solutions, direct allocation of resources.
• Develop and implement corrective action plans when deviations from budgets or schedule are evident.
• Seek senior management assistance in resolving schedule and budget problems as they arise.
• Formally identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk throughout the program life cycle.
• Obtain management approval prior to making decisions that will cause deterioration of established program, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Maintain program financial forecasts, report progress to financial objectives.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $105,100 - $175,700/ year.

Hours: 9x80 - 1^st Shift.

Length: Direct Hire.

Sounds like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum of 10 years of program performance or management experience.

• Master's Degree
• Successful track record in managing complex aerospace/defense programs.
• Must be a dynamic and energetic leader that fosters a team identity and a high-performance culture.
• Experience with earned value cost accounting and reporting; experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program progress, productivity, and variance analysis.
• The position needs coordinating and working with cross-functional teams.
• Good communication skills to advise team members and senior management on status or actions.
• A personality style that is team oriented and has the success of the customer, program, organization, and business as his/her main objective.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Successful candidate must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.