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The successful candidate will serve as the central point of coordination between customers, leadership, engineering, operations, and manufacturing teams, ensuring programs remain on track while navigating evolving priorities and aggressive timelines.\r\nThe ideal candidate brings a strong ownership mentality and a proven ability to transform complex challenges into structured execution plans. This individual will be responsible for managing program scope, schedules, risks, and cross-functional activities while maintaining clear communication with both internal stakeholders and customers. Success in this role requires sound decision-making, adaptability, and the ability to execute with urgency in an environment where priorities can shift quickly.\r\nSummarize and report status to teammates, suppliers, customers, and management.\r\nInitiate and manage programs throughout the product realization process, including engineering requests of all types.\r\nUtilize the open issues matrix which includes risk mitigation plan.\r\nDevelop and manage the program budget and report updates to management as required.\r\nDevelop and drive program timing with internal milestones, e.g., design reviews, tooling, PRP gate reviews, and external milestones.\r\nManage multiple discipline engineering teams to meet internal and customer requirements such as TS16494, APQP, and AIAG.\r\nSupport the Business Unit or Regional Strategic Plan, facilitating activity execution and communicating to stakeholders as required.\r\nManage experimental process development activities as needed.\r\nManage new tooling engineering requests and program launches throughout the product realization process.\r\nPresent required phase-gate reviews to management.\r\nParticipate in DVP&R, DFMEA, and PFMEA development meetings.\r\nSupport APQP and VA/VE activities.\r\nSupervise Quality Engineers, along with other functional Engineers as requested.\r\nConduct timely and meaningful performance evaluations for direct reports, and provide input into the performance evaluations of associates reporting under your indirect supervision.\r\nAssess current and future development needs for direct reports and take steps to mentor and develop them accordingly.\r\nSet the direction for team members and hold individuals accountable to performance standards and strategic objectives.\r\nIdentify and train a back-up(s) to manage key tasks when absent.\r\nAdditional functions not specifically outlined in this position description as directed by the leader.#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Socketdev","rawCompany":"socketdev","city":"Trenton","state":"OH","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T02:12:02.681Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"336414","title":"Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing","slug":"guided-missile-and-space-vehicle-manufacturing"},{"code":"336419","title":"Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing","slug":"other-guided-missile-and-space-vehicle-parts-and-auxiliary-equipment-manufacturing"},{"code":"336415","title":"Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Propulsion Unit and Propulsion Unit Parts Manufacturing","slug":"guided-missile-and-space-vehicle-propulsion-unit-and-propulsion-unit-parts-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Program Manager II","description":"Position Summary:\r\nWe're partnering with a rapidly growing manufacturer supporting some of the most innovative launch vehicle and satellite programs in the commercial aerospace industry and are seeking a highly driven\r\nProgram Manager\r\nto lead critical customer-facing initiatives.\r\nThis is not a traditional program management role. 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