Director, Program Management Excellence - Surveillance Systems Division

Job Code: 13400

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Description:

Space Surveillance Systems Division provides world-class end-to-end solutions to solve our customer's hardest mission problems. This includes architecting, developing, building, and testing mission solutions for government and commercial customers. From leading edge capabilities in RF, antenna, and space protection and control to world leading precision navigation and timing, we have a demonstrated heritage of enabling and delivering a range of mission effects for our customers.

We are looking for a strong leader to take on a vital role as the Surveillance Systems Division PMX Lead reporting to the Surveillance Systems Vice President and General Manager (VP/GM), to drive measurable program execution, ensure organizational capacity, and increase business scalability in this rapidly growing portfolio. The business this role supports has an annual revenue of over $700M within the Space and Airborne Systems Segment. This position will partner with the Sector PMX lead as well as the Segment PMX subject matter experts to ensure Surveillance Systems programs achieve repeatable program excellence.

The focus of this role will be to change the culture to evolve to a Prime mentality and approach, drive people, process, and tools solutions into the business, and to help improve employee skills, productivity, program execution, and business outcomes.

Essential Functions:

• Drive consistent Program Management processes across our programs and product lines including alignment/primary interface responsibility with L3Harris Program Management Excellence (PMX) organization
• Act as 1st level escalation focal for division program teams on PM tools including help needed and areas to improve the usefulness and outputs of the tools
• Deliver/coordinate focused single topic lunch 'n learns on PM toolsets based on program needs
• Ensure the business meets annual objectives by setting standards, implementing PM Best Practices, and monitoring resultant performance
• Develop and execute on our scalability initiatives in Physical scale, Personnel Scale, and Process scale
• Lead special projects focused on driving improved program execution
• Manage the cost, schedule, and performance requirements of division-level projects through all phases from inception to completion
• Instrument the business for relevant, actionable, preventative leading indicators
• Perform and/or facilitate SME reviews for all Tier 1 and 2 Program Baseline Reviews prior to Sector reviews
• Drive Program Leadership Team (PLT) training and certification for the Division

Qualifications:

• Active Secret Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Business Management, or other technical discipline and 10+ years of prior related experience; Or, Graduate Degree with 8+ year of prior related experience
• Experience leading complex hardware and software development contracts with profit and loss responsibility
• Execution experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Program Management Best Practices within the defense electronics industry
• 4+ years of direct leadership experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Space programs experience via both Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Other Transactional Agreements (OTA)
• Experience in Prime, mission-level execution programs that involve integration of complex systems to deliver mission effects
• Experience in program growth through value-added change proposal activity
• Experience developing and executing a strategic plan
• Capture management and proposal experience
• Active Secret clearance or Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph