{"id":1666749,"url":"https://alion.io/job/trimble-engineering-projectprogram-manager","title":"Engineering Project/Program Manager","company":{"id":2622,"name":"Trimble","domain":"trimble.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/trimble","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":25,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":30,"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sunnyvale, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":138700,"max":190700,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":190700},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Project","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-05T01:37:52Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Drive Innovation as our Next Defense Program Manager (Military GPS & PNT Solutions)\nAre you ready to lead cutting-edge defense technology and safeguard critical missions worldwide? Trimble is looking for a dynamic Program Manager to drive our expanding military GPS and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) portfolio, bridging advanced hardware and software engineering with vital defense partners.\nCorporate: Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.\nWhat Makes This Role Great:\nIn this role, you will sit at the strategic intersection of defense engineering and customer liaison, taking end-to-end ownership of sophisticated military GPS technologies. You will directly influence critical defense capabilities by empowering cross-functional teams, driving product delivery, and maintaining key relationships across the U.S. military services.\nKey Exciting Responsibilities\nServe as the primary strategic voice and customer liaison for military clients across the Air Force, Navy, and Army.\nLead cross-functional engineering and manufacturing teams through the complete product development lifecycle for parallel program efforts.\nOwn total program execution, including schedule management, risk mitigation, financial performance, and baseline integrations.\nDrive process operational discipline and scale our growing military GPS and positioning portfolio.\nOversee key contractual and technical documentation deliverables, including formal SDRL and CDRL data packages.\nEssential Skills & Experience:\n4 to 7 years of proven program management experience leading complex hardware and software engineering projects.\nDemonstrated experience managing full product development lifecycles in defense, aerospace, or high-reliability manufacturing environments.\nProven customer-facing expertise with a talent for balancing technical customer demands with internal engineering capacity.\nStrong project control proficiency using tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.\nU.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.\nBonus Points For:\nPrior technical experience with military GPS systems, navigation platforms, or PNT technologies.\nHands-on familiarity with defense contracting frameworks, including SDRLs/CDRLs, NDAs, PIAs, and TAA compliance.\nTrack record of establishing scalable program management processes in a fast-growing environment.\nLogistics:\nLocation: Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid / On-site as required)\nTravel Requirement: 10-20%\nWhy You'll Love Working With UsAt Trimble, we're not just a company that \"does good\"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.\nYou'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.\nCollaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a \"hidden gem.\" You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of \"visionary pragmatists\" who think boldly and build things that work.\nBe an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often \"self-authored,\" empowering proactive \"doers.\"\nProgram Manager, Project Manager, Defense Contracting, Military GPS, Navigation Systems, PNT, SDRL, CDRL, Systems Engineering, Product Development Lifecycle, Clearances\nCompensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.\nHiring Range\n$138,700.00-$190,700.00Pay Rate Type\nSalaryBonus Eligible?\nYesCommission Eligible?\nNoBenefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.\nHow to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.\nApplication Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nAt Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow-we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics athttps://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”\nOur mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. 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