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We develop high-performance aerospace systems, secure engineering solutions, and complex hardware built for demanding operational environments.\nWe are scaling quickly and seek people who operate with ownership, urgency, technical discipline, and sound judgment. Our teams work on real systems with real operational consequences-moving from concept to hardware, test, and deployment with speed and rigor.\nThe Role\nTiberius Aerospace is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead the execution of complex aerospace and precision-strike hardware programs.\nThe TPM operates at the intersection of engineering, test, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and program leadership. You will bring structure to complex technical work: defining execution plans, maintaining integrated schedules, managing risks and dependencies, driving accountability, and ensuring the team has the information and decisions needed to deliver.\nThis is not a status-tracking role. You will be embedded with technical teams, understand the product and its mission, anticipate issues before they become blockers, and help turn ambitious engineering objectives into flight-ready hardware.\nWhat You’ll Do\nProgram Execution & Technical Leadership\nLead the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of aerospace and defense hardware programs from concept through development, qualification, production, and field deployment.\nBuild and maintain integrated program plans that connect technical scope, milestones, schedules, resources, risks, test activity, production readiness, and customer commitments.\nPartner closely with engineering leaders to define technical execution paths, clarify requirements, identify critical dependencies, and drive decisions.\nManage the program’s cost, schedule, and technical-performance baseline, ensuring priorities remain aligned with mission needs and company objectives.\nLead integrated program team meetings and establish clear ownership, action tracking, escalation paths, and decision cadence.\nTranslate high-level product and mission requirements into actionable engineering workstreams and measurable deliverables.\nDrive execution across mechanical, structures, propulsion, aerodynamics, electrical, embedded software, flight controls, test, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain functions.\nCoordinate technical development activities from early design trades through prototype builds, qualification, flight test, and production transition.\nSchedule, Risk & Dependency Management\nDevelop and maintain detailed schedules, critical paths, milestone plans, and execution dashboards.\nIdentify program risks, technical risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies early; establish mitigation plans and drive closure.\nEnsure configuration changes, design decisions, test results, supplier issues, and manufacturing constraints are reflected in program plans.\nMonitor program health using meaningful execution metrics, including milestone performance, test readiness, delivery predictability, issue aging, and risk exposure.\nEscalate issues with clear context, recommended decisions, and an understanding of the cost, schedule, and technical tradeoffs involved.\nEstablish lightweight but rigorous processes that increase execution speed and accountability without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.\nHardware Development, Test & Production Integration\nWork directly with engineering and test teams to plan prototype builds, integration activities, ground-test campaigns, environmental qualification, and flight-test events.\nCoordinate test readiness reviews, hardware availability, test instrumentation, data-review timelines, and follow-on corrective actions.\nPartner with manufacturing and supply chain teams to assess production readiness, supplier status, long-lead items, nonconformances, and delivery risk.\nSupport engineering change, configuration-control, and design-review processes throughout development and production.\nEnsure lessons from test, field activity, and manufacturing are captured and incorporated into future builds and program plans.\nCommunication & Stakeholder Management\nServe as a central execution interface between technical teams, executive leadership, external customers, suppliers, and program stakeholders.\nDeliver concise, accurate program updates that communicate progress, risks, decisions needed, and recovery plans.\nPrepare and maintain program artifacts including execution plans, schedules, risk registers, milestone reviews, technical status reports, and customer-facing materials.\nSupport customer engagements by communicating progress, understanding mission needs, and ensuring commitments are incorporated into execution plans.\nHelp create a culture of transparency, urgency, ownership, and disciplined technical delivery.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nB.S. or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or another relevant technical discipline.\n 5+ years of experience in technical program management, project engineering, systems integration, product development, or a related technical role.\nExperience supporting complex hardware programs in aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, advanced manufacturing, or another high-consequence engineering environment.\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams through development, integration, test, qualification, and delivery.\nStrong understanding of the engineering product-development lifecycle, including requirements, design, integration, verification, test, manufacturing, and configuration control.\nExperience managing program cost, schedule, risk, dependencies, and technical deliverables.\nStrong judgment and the ability to understand technical tradeoffs well enough to drive decisions and unblock teams.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information for executive, customer, and non-technical stakeholders.\nProficiency with program-management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent.\nU.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with air vehicles, missiles, munitions, propulsion, flight hardware, aerospace structures, avionics, sensors, or other complex defense systems.\nExperience supporting DoD, national-security, or export-controlled programs.\nExperience planning and executing prototype, qualification, environmental, ground-test, or flight-test campaigns.\nExperience managing hardware production programs, supplier delivery, manufacturing readiness, and configuration-controlled releases.\nExperience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid engineering execution models.\nPMP, CAPM, Agile, Scrum, or comparable program-management certification.\nExperience with technical requirements verification and validation.\nActive U.S. government security clearance.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou create clarity where there is ambiguity and momentum where there are blockers. You know how to ask enough technical questions to understand what is at risk, what decision is required, and what needs to happen next.\nYou are equally comfortable in a design review, at a build station, reviewing test readiness, or briefing the CEO. You do not simply report program status-you actively improve it. The teams around you have clear priorities, realistic plans, known risks, and the support needed to deliver.\nGrowth Opportunity\nAs Tiberius Aerospace scales through development and into full-rate production, this role will take on increasing ownership of major programs, customer commitments, and integrated product teams. The TPM will have a direct path toward Senior Technical Program Manager, Program Director, or broader operational leadership.\nCompensation & Benefits\nTiberius Aerospace offers competitive base compensation commensurate with experience, equity participation, comprehensive health benefits, and a 401(k). Specific compensation will be discussed during the interview process.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nTiberius Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. 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