Top Program and Project Management Jobs

Manages cost, schedule, risk, and quality activities for the U.S. Navy’s SLCM-N program. Develops estimates, work breakdown structures, and integrated master schedules; applies earned value management; oversees baseline change control; identifies and mitigates technical risks; coordinates corrective and preventive actions; maintains quality management plans; and reports performance, KPIs, and CPARS metrics to technical leaders, executives, and government customers.

Assists in managing a major manufacturing development program, serving as the liaison among program, customer, factory, engineering, quality, supply chain, and line-management teams. Coordinates priorities, dual-source strategies, budgets, quality, schedules, and program deliverables. Leads issue resolution, removes manufacturing-floor roadblocks, provides decision-making support, and drives accountability for action-item closure across multiple factories.

Leads development and maintenance of complex Integrated Master Plans and Integrated Master Schedules for defense programs. Integrates schedules across finance, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, operations, and quality; monitors performance, analyzes critical paths and risks, prepares status reports and contract deliverables, and develops recovery plans. Partners with program managers, control account managers, work package managers, finance teams, customers, and business leaders while ensuring compliance with DoD, customer, industry, and company requirements.

Oversee technical IT projects for a classified Intelligence Community customer. Responsibilities include developing execution plans, managing schedules, budgets, resources, risks, stakeholders, and project status reporting. The role provides technical and analytical guidance, resolves issues, supports process improvements, and leads teams through complex technology projects. Government contract project management experience and familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and MS Project are required; PMP, Agile, Six Sigma, and Intelligence Community experience are preferred.

Supports implementation of a quality management and business process system for U.S. Navy weapon-system programs. Responsibilities include business process mapping, project documentation, customer engagement, software configuration and integration, technical analysis, trade studies, systems engineering support, testing, change management, audit tracking, training, and stakeholder coordination. The role works with multidisciplinary DoD teams to optimize processes and implement COTS or GOTS solutions.

Leads PLM sustainment operations and manages software and engineering support staff for a U.S. Navy weapon system program. Oversees PLM solution implementation, requirements traceability, testing, technical data management, service requests, workflow troubleshooting, KPI tracking, customer coordination, training, issue mediation, and project status reporting. Coordinates with architects, technical leads, IT teams, developers, and program managers to improve PLM processes and tools.

Manage configuration processes for developmental and operational systems supporting a classified Intelligence Community customer. Maintain version-controlled technical baselines, knowledge repositories, and configuration management plans. Support hardware and software build, staging, testing, and integration environments; define and implement configuration management procedures; manage configuration items using CM tools; establish version-control policies; and ensure compliance across development projects. The role may support candidates from junior through senior levels.

Manages program-wide risk identification, analysis, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting for U.S. Navy weapon-system programs. Maintains risk plans and registers, leads risk workshops and review boards, performs qualitative and quantitative assessments, develops mitigation and recovery strategies, and advises leadership on risk exposure, cost, schedule, and performance impacts. The role also creates executive dashboards, coordinates cross-functional accountability, and communicates complex risk information into actionable recommendations.

Leads a technical program delivering and operating a cloud-based enterprise laboratory across multiple classification levels. Oversees engineering, R&D, contract execution, customer relationships, staffing, budgets, schedules, risks, subcontractors, deliverables, and program metrics. Coordinates cross-functional teams to develop solutions, resolve issues, manage resources, and ensure safe, high-quality, on-time, and on-budget performance for Intelligence Community customers.

Leads government space systems programs and teams supporting USSF activities. Manages cost, schedule, technical delivery, budgets, resources, contracts, customer relationships, risks, and performance objectives. Prepares execution plans, status reports, briefings, and proposals; coordinates stakeholders and resolves issues. Provides technical and analytical guidance, develops employees, supports business growth, and interfaces with senior USAF, USSF, AFMC, and SSC officials. Frequent travel to company and customer locations is required.