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(GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high-resolution surveillance systems.We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Program Director, MQ-9 Global Sustainment!\nThis position is responsible for overseeing cross-functional efforts focused on the delivery and sustainment of MQ-9 products, solutions, training devices, and services for U.S. Government and international customers, and for ensuring supporting internal processes, tools, and business systems enable effective execution. This includes direction of teams providing logistics/sustainment program management, training system development, technical publications integration, and shared engineering and software support across MQ-9A and MQ-9B customer fleets.\nThe role supports multiple customers including, but not limited to, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Taiwan, Japan Coast Guard, India, Poland, Canada, USAF, USN, and USMC, and will support any future MQ-9B sustainment/training customers.\nThe Senior Director oversees major product lines such as:\nSky Guardian Support Solution (SGSS) - the MQ-9B shared sustainment construct\nSkyGuardian Mission Trainer and SkyGuardian Mission Trainer (+)\nPredator Mission Trainer and Predator Mission Trainer (+)\nVirtual Maintenance Training\nProgram Sustainment Services (PSS) Center - executing shared engineering, technical publications, program management, and software maintenance across MQ-9B and MQ-9A customers\nThe directorate’s program managers and staff currently execute over 300M USD annually in customer programs and approximately 3M USD per year in internal research and development (IRAD) programs.\nThe Senior Director consistently demonstrates strong leadership, critical thinking, and sound judgment, making decisions with consideration for the implication and effect on other functions, programs, the Company, and Customers. The role ensures that policies and procedures align with corporate vision and MQ-9 product line strategies, and consistently demonstrates good judgment in all forms of communication, ensuring timely, clear, accurate, and respectful messaging to executive leadership, customers, and internal stakeholders. The position exerts influence across P&Ls and functional organizations and serves as a key interface to executive leadership on matters of MQ-9 sustainment and training.\nEssential Functions:\nOversees MQ-9 global sustainment and training policies, procedures, and practices, including logistics/sustainment program management, technical publications integration, and training product development, ensuring company and customer objectives are met.\n\nLeads the development, fielding, and sustainment of MQ-9 training devices and solutions (flight simulators, par-task trainers, virtual reality applications) and associated systems and processes across multiple U.S. and international customers.\n\nDirects the Program Sustainment Services (PSS) Center and other shared-support functions providing engineering, technical publications, program management, and software maintenance for MQ-9A and MQ-9B customers, ensuring consistent, reliable, and timely support and deliverables.\n\nProvides leadership and excellence by overseeing the planning, recruiting, hiring, training, retention, and career development of logistics/sustainment program managers and other staff. These program managers are matrixed to multiple profit-and-loss (P&L) organizations for program execution.\n\nSets vision, direction, and priorities for the MQ-9 sustainment and training portfolio, aligning team objectives with corporate and P&L strategies and driving a high-performance, collaborative culture across geographically dispersed teams.\n\nCoordinates departmental and cross-functional teams to assign and prioritize tasks focused on delivering new or upgraded products and services, resolving resource conflicts, and balancing competing priorities across product lines and customers.\n\nDevelops and delivers executive-level reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations; leads and supports DCS (Direct Commercial Sales) and FMS (Foreign Military Sales) proposal development for international MQ-9 customers, including management of proposal efforts.\n\nAssesses project and program issues and provides decisions and solutions to meet productivity, quality, cost, schedule, and customer satisfaction goals and objectives across the MQ-9 sustainment and training portfolio.\n\nEnsures compliance with applicable laws, regulations, environmental requirements, and company policies; 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