Assistant Program Manager Test & Evaluation

Assistant Program Manager Test & Evaluation

Job Locations

US-MD-Patuxent River

ID

2025-2508

Category

Engineering

Type

Full Time

Telecommute

No

Overview

Join a Company Where You Can Make a Real Impact - and Own a Piece of the Future

Are you energized by the idea of helping a company grow smarter, serve our customers better, and connect more deeply? Do you thrive in an environment where your ideas matter, your voice is heard, and your work drives real results? If so, we'd love to meet you.

We're a mid-sized, employee-owned company on a mission to create meaningful value for both our employees and our customers. That means we're not just looking for someone to fill a seat - we're looking for someone who wants to build, innovate, and evolve with us.

Our company primarily serves the Navy and other Department of Defense clients, offering a dynamic environment where your expertise will make a difference.

About the Role

Avian is searching for a senior level Assistant Program Manager Test & Evaluation (APMT&E) to support NAVAIR's Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection Systems (ATAPS) Program Office, PMA-272, in Patuxent River, MD with the Countermeasures and Expendables Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).

Responsibilities

Responsibilities :

The APMT&E will develop T&E strategies to test Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) and Electronic Warfare (EW) systems across the USN / USMC portfolio. The APMT&E will support programmatic milestones within resource constraints, and plan, coordinate, execute, and document T&E related meetings to execute T&E efforts.

Chair Working Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and Test Plan Working Group (TPWG) meetings

• Develop the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) and support OPTEVFOR with the Integrated Engineering Framework (IEF) development
• Develop and manage the T&E schedule
• Develop a T&E Spend Plan and support POM submissions
• Coordinate aircraft demand signals with respective platform PMAs
• Represent T&E at SETR events
• Manage lab, ground and flight test events
• Lead the execution of complex tasks
• Interface between the IPTs, OPTEVFOR, DT / OT test squadrons and lab facilities to support test efforts
• Must be able to work independently

Qualifications

Education Requirements :

Required Experience and Skills :

About being a part of Team AVIAN

As an employee-owner, you'll be a catalyst for progress - helping us find new opportunities with current or new customers, company efficiencies, streamline processes, and bring people and ideas together in smarter ways. Whether it's helping us optimize workflows, enhancing the employee experience, or delivering more impactful solutions to our customers, your inputs will have reach and relevance across the organization.

Taking care of each other is a cornerstone of our AVIAN philosophy. Being part of the AVIAN team means being part of a team that takes pride in being expansive in our community because our impact doesn't stop in the workplace. We actively engage in community initiatives, empowering our employees to make a meaningful difference.

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Why Join Us?

AVIAN is a service-based organization. As an equal opportunity employer, our policy of business is to seek the most qualified candidate for each talent opportunity without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, religious belief, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sexual preference, physical or mental handicap, lawful political affiliation or veteran's status.