Manufacturing Program Manager
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Standard Job Description
The MPM is embedded in a designated Product Center and serves as the single point of contact for all program-wide cost, schedule, quality, risk, and change-control activities. The role merges the strategic, financial, and operational duties of a Manufacturing Program Manager with the earned-value reporting, financial-accountability, and change-control responsibilities of a Control-Account Manager (CAM).
Key Responsibilities
- Program Integration - Align and coordinate the Production Build Plan with Operations; ensure all manufacturing plans are developed, maintained, and executed on schedule and within budget.
- Strategic Translation - Convert Product Center strategy into forecasting, resource allocation, and emerging earned-value (EV) tracking for the CH-53K program.
- Financial & Schedule Ownership - Serve as the CAM for the Product Center, providing full financial accountability through EV reporting, variance analysis (EAC/ETC), and monthly status updates. Maintain the cost-performance baseline.
- Performance Metrics - Track and drive key indicators such as Performance Index (PI) and Hours Per Unit (HPU); ensure on-time completion and support affordability goals.
- Reporting & Liaison - Produce regular earned-value/financial reports and coordinate with Program Management, Operations Finance, Program Finance, Quality Assurance, Industrial Engineering, and other stakeholders.
- Risk & Opportunity Management - Maintain a risk register for the Product Center, identify, assess, and implement mitigation actions tied to the CH-53K program.
- Performance-Based Payments - Manage, track, and communicate PBPs where applicable.
- Quality Coordination - Partner with Quality to oversee scrap-rework-repair (SRR) activities and drive Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs).
- Affordability Leadership - Own the center’s affordability initiatives, including Cost Reduction Initiatives (CRIs); translate outcomes into the program’s Estimate at Complete (EAC).
- Stakeholder Interface - Act as the primary operations liaison between the Product Center and key internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment across the program.
Core Competencies
- Earned-value management and variance analysis
- Integrated schedule and cost control
- Risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
- Data-driven decision-making using PI, HPU, and affordability metrics
The MPM ensures that the CH-53K Product Center delivers on its commitments, maintains financial integrity, and continuously improves cost, schedule, and quality performance.
Basic Qualifications
- Ddetail-oriented, proactive professional with a strong background in program operations, logistics, or supply chain management.
- Experience in industrial enrineering, supply chain, program management, and/or operations.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing deadlines.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration across teams and with customers.
- The ability to analyze data and drive process improvements to optimize delivery performance.
Desired Skills
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118000.00 - $219100.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.