Program Manager

About This Role

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers' training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to

Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work‑life balance.
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe.
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions.
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

This position is responsible for overall program performance including schedule performance, cost performance, and customer affinity by executing the following duties:

• Direct all phases of the program from requirements analysis, initial planning through all phases to successful product delivery and assure a timely closeout of completed programs to ensure that all obligations are satisfied, and program documentation is properly recorded.
• Support program bid and proposal activities. Ensure that requirements of the request for proposal are met in the preparation and documentation of bids and proposals.
• Develop and implement plans and schedules to execute contracts/subcontracts. Allocate and control contract budgets for labor, material, travel, and purchased services. Report program status to senior management as required.
• Development and maintenance of the program integrated master schedule to include the internal and external milestones and phases as established by the respective program teams.
• Establish and monitor adherence to program master plans and schedules, identify program problems, obtain solutions, direct allocation of resources.
• Develop and implement corrective action plans when deviations from budgets and/or schedule are evident. Seek senior management assistance in resolving schedule and budget problems as they arise.
• Formally identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk throughout the program life cycle. Obtain management approval prior to making decisions that will cause deterioration of established program, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Contribute to program financial forecasts, report progress to financial objectives.
• Coordinate with other departments on resolution of contractual problems with customer. Coordinate with Sr Program Manager and Contracts Manager on issues pertaining to contract requirements, changes, and interpretations.
• Ability to clearly communicate program status, issues, risks, opportunities and plans to internal senior management.
• Ensure coordination across multiple programs and/or projects and with other product line leads.
• Direct and coordinate multi-million- to billion-dollar proposal activities from U.S. and foreign governments.

• Bachelor's degree or 20+ years of relatable work experience.
• Successful track record in managing or proposing complex aerospace/defense projects as a prime or subcontractor to a domestic or foreign military organization.
• Must be a dynamic and energetic leader that involves other team members in the decision making and change process.
• Experience with earned value cost accounting and reporting preferred; experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program progress, productivity, and variance analysis.
• The position requires coordinating and working with cross‑functional teams.
• Strong communication skills to advise team members and senior management on status and/or actions.
• Microsoft Office Suite skills, including PowerPoint.
• Active Secret security clearance preferred, Secret clearance issuance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment is required – DoD.
• High‑energy and…