Program Director

Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 15 years of demonstrated leadership; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 13 years of demonstrated leadership.Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance is required at time of hire; the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance is preferred. Applicants selected for duties requiring classified access will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required. Responsibilities for this Position General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for a Program Director, within the Space Systems Business Area and Assured PNT & Communications business segment. The Program Director has end-to-end responsibility for program strategy, customer commitments, contract execution, financial performance, and delivery of communications payload solutions. The role leads a large matrixed team through development, qualification, production, payload integration, delivery, and mission-support preparation for schedule-critical space telecommunications missions. The successful candidate will combine disciplined aerospace program management with the speed, transparency, and practical decision-making required to execute in a commercial space environment. REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:

Develops and executes program strategy, product roadmap, integrated program plan, and business objectives for revenue, margin, cash, quality, customer satisfaction, and on-time delivery. Owns execution of the contract and associated options, including scope, requirements, schedule, budget, staffing, technical performance, contractual deliverables, and financial results. Serves as the principal GDMS program interface to customers and coordinates support to government sponsor of program and technical stakeholders through the prime contractor. Builds and leads the integrated program team across program management, systems and specialty engineering, hardware and software development, operations, manufacturing, test, mission assurance, supply chain, subcontracts, finance, contracts, and business development. Develops, baselines, and controls the product-oriented work breakdown structure, integrated master schedule, resource-loaded execution plan, budgets, and measurable exit criteria for major reviews and deliveries. Maintains rigorous focus on the mission launch window and payload-delivery commitments by managing the critical path, schedule margin, long-lead material, staffing ramp, design maturity, manufacturing readiness, and test capacity. Directs development and delivery of communications payload offerings Maximizes responsible reuse of proven space communications designs, flight heritage, engineering knowledge, and production assets while ensuring all program requirements, interfaces, reliability objectives, and mission-assurance expectations are met. Leads program financial management, including orders, sales, earnings, cash, working capital, estimate at completion, management reserve, earned value or equivalent performance measurement, and corrective action for unfavorable trends. Conducts recurring program, technical, schedule, financial, risk, supplier, manufacturing, and readiness reviews; drills into issues; assigns accountable owners; and verifies timely closure of corrective actions. Owns program risk and opportunity management, with particular emphasis on schedule compression, technical maturity, parts availability, supplier performance, payload integration, test readiness, and fixed-price exposure. Directs major subcontract and supplier execution for critical hardware, including negotiation strategy, technical and schedule integration, performance reviews, and recovery actions. Establishes and executes a staffing plan that secures critical heritage talent,