Senior Program Manager

Salary: $90,000 - $140,000

The Opportunity:

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for overseeing the development, execution, and delivery of key programs. This position will operate within a government-contracts environment and report to our Program Management Office.

Our Technology:

Were the world leader inResilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (R-PNT) solutions that improve the reliability, performance, and safety of critical high-risk operations, even in GPS/GNSS denied environments. We provide virtually fail-safe GNSS and PNT solutions for military and commercial applications worldwide. We do remarkable things!

How I will Contribute:

• Oversee the development and execution of defense programs, ensuring that they are delivered on-time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with defense customers and stakeholders, ensuring that their needs and expectations are met.
• Lead programs with significant and long-term business impact. Responsible for ensuring success through all aspects of the program lifecycle.
• Manage and forecast financial metrics (orders, revenue, profitability, etc) on assigned programs, while planning and executing to support division goals.
• Drive program momentum and alignment across external customers, Sales/Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Operations and other internal stakeholders.
• Lead internal team efforts across functional groups to meet contractual deliverables. Proactively remove roadblocks for the team.
• Actively manage Risk & Opportunity and mitigation plans aligned with budget, scope and schedule requirements.
• Responsible for tracking program status and providing regular business updates to management and any relevant stakeholders.
• Support Sales and Business Development to capture new program opportunities. Lead proposal preparations through estimation, document creation and leadership approvals.

What You Bring to Safran Federal Systems:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, or related field is preferred.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in defense program management, with a bachelors degree is required; minimum of 4 years of experience in defense program management with a masters degree is required.
• Equivalent work or military experience in lieu of a degree will be considered to fulfill degree requirements.
• Experience with managing defense programs, including managing sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Ability to travel up to 20% both domestically and internationally.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Active security clearance is strongly preferred, ability and willingness to obtain a security clearance upon hire is required.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple deadlines.
• Ability to reason logically and make sound decisions, to consider alternative and diverse perspectives, to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, to remain poised under all circumstances, and to interact effectively with people in a positive manner that engenders confidence and trust.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and make decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to communicate across various levels within the organization.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

About Safran Federal Systems:

Safran Federal Systems has been awarded as aWinner of the USA Today and Rochester Metro Area Top Workplaces 2025 Award.

In 2022, Safran acquired Orolia, now Safran Trusted 4D, the world leader in Resilient PNT. At the intersection of critical infrastructure and national defense, Safran Trusted 4D solutions govern and protect the integrity of systems that shape the world. In early 2019, Orolia Defense & Security spun off as a separate entity from its parent company Orolia, with the mission of providing resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions and custom engineering services to U.S. Government agencies, U.S. Defense organizations, and their contractors.

In August of 2019, Safran Federal Systems acquired Talen-X, a U.S. company specializing in advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Simulation solutions and Interference, Detection, and Mitigation (IDM) technologies. Talen-X's portfolio was an ideal fit and has helped to enhance Safran FS's overall offerings. The acquisition enabled Talen-X's existing resources, operations and capabilities to be scaled and accelerated to better support the warfighter. Read the press releasehere.

Safran Federal Systems operates as a proxy-regulated company, Free of Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI). As such, Safran FS Defense & Security is approved to work on the full spectrum of U.S. Government classified and unclassified projects and is positioned to support strategic partnerships in the development of key PNT technologies for the defense market.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Please note this description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.