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Building on nearly 50 years of success, we deliver Payload & Protection Systems, Aero/Hydrodynamic Interstage Systems, and Propulsion & Launch Systems to more than 80 prime contractors supporting over 130 space and defense programs.\nThis role is part of our Space and Launch business, which has contributed to the nation’s space programs for decades by delivering complete solutions from concept to flight. We enable successful space operations with mission-critical technology supporting every step from first launch to final landing, including launch vehicle subsystems, propulsion systems, aerodynamic and interstage systems, and payload protection and deployment. Our high-performance solutions are engineered to operate in the most extreme environments and meet precise mission requirements.\nIn this role, you serve as the senior integration leader for enterprise-level programs and strategic initiatives that span multiple sites, functions, and product lines. You translate executive priorities into executable plans, create accountability across diverse teams, remove cross-functional barriers, and drive disciplined performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, and contractual objectives. You operate with broad autonomy, navigating ambiguity, aligning senior leaders, and ensuring execution maturity across the Space and Launch organization.\nResponsibilities\nLeads enterprise-scale aerospace and defense programs from planning through qualification, industrialization, production ramp, and delivery.\nOwns integrated performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, customer, and contractual commitments; drives corrective actions when needed.\nDevelops and maintains integrated master plans and schedules connecting engineering, qualification, manufacturing readiness, staffing, capital, supply chain, and site dependencies.\nLeads cross-site work transfers, ensuring strategy, readiness, configuration control, tooling, supplier transition, validation, and customer approvals.\nDrives new product introduction and development-to-production transitions, ensuring design maturity, producibility, test readiness, configuration discipline, and production readiness.\nPartners with engineering, manufacturing, and site leadership to establish executable manufacturing plans, rate ramps, constraint mitigation, capital needs, and recovery actions.\nIdentifies and manages technical, manufacturing, supply-chain, cost, schedule, quality, and customer risks; establishes mitigation plans and escalates only when required.\nLeads high-consequence recovery efforts involving late hardware, quality escapes, supplier disruption, qualification challenges, or schedule compression.\nServes as a principal interface for customers, suppliers, prime contractors, U.S. Government stakeholders, and executive leadership, communicating program status and decisions.\nPrepares and leads executive program reviews, manages contractual scope, supports proposals, and develops executable strategies for new business and growth initiatives.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor of Science in Engineering, a technical discipline, Business or Program Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant aerospace or defense leadership experience.\n12 or more years of progressive experience in aerospace, defense, space, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex technical environments, including responsibility for program execution, manufacturing integration, and cross-functional leadership.\nDemonstrated success leading complex, multi-site or multi-business integration efforts with senior-executive visibility and accountability for cost, schedule, technical, manufacturing, customer, and growth outcomes.\nExtensive experience managing complex aerospace and defense programs involving mission-critical flight hardware.\nHands-on leadership experience with manufacturing, new product introduction, industrialization, production-rate growth, work transfer, and cross-site execution.\nStrong technical acumen with the ability to integrate engineering, manufacturing, qualification, quality, configuration, and supply-chain considerations.\nProven ability to operate independently in high-ambiguity environments while maintaining disciplined execution and strong executive communication.\nStrong financial and business acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, cost/schedule tradeoffs, risk management, and contract performance.\nWorking knowledge of U.S. Government and prime-contractor program environments, formal deliverables, change control, and compliance expectations.\nAbility and willingness to travel regularly among company sites, customers, suppliers, and partner locations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster of Science in Engineering or a related technical discipline, Master of Business Administration, or other relevant advanced degree.\nExperience managing Department of Defense, U.S. Government, allied-defense, or major prime-contractor programs.\nExperience with propulsion, launch systems, payload integration, separation systems, energetic devices, or other mission-critical flight hardware.\nExperience leading development-to-production transitions, qualification, rate ramp, and sustained manufacturing.\nExperience managing factory transitions, consolidations, supplier transitions, or other strategic work transfers.\nKnowledge of fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, and incentive-based contracts and corresponding program behaviors.\nExperience with Earned Value Management, integrated master scheduling, estimate-at-complete development, or comparable program-control methods.\nExperience supporting proposals, negotiations, contract modifications, capture efforts, and growth strategy execution.\nExperience with enterprise resource planning, product-lifecycle management, manufacturing execution, scheduling, or program-performance systems.\nProject Management Professional certification or equivalent formal program-management training.\nPhysical Requirements\nProlonged sitting, sustained computer use, and regular review of technical, financial, and program documentation. The essential functions of this position must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.\nSpecial Mentions\nModerate travel up to 25%.\nThis position requires U.S. person status under U.S. export control laws, including U.S. citizens and nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.\nBenefits\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance\n401(k) with company match\nPaid time off\nHealth Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA)\nCompany-paid life and AD&D insurance\nShort- and long-term disability coverage\nTuition reimbursement\nKarman Space and Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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