Program Manager

Program Manager
Camarillo, CA


The Program Manager will oversee operational execution for designated aerospace manufacturing programs, with a focus on meeting customer expectations related to quality, delivery, cost, and schedule. This position coordinates activity across manufacturing, supply chain, planning, engineering, quality, and customer-facing teams to maintain production flow and resolve issues affecting program performance.

The role serves as a central point of coordination for operational priorities, working closely with internal stakeholders and customers to identify risks, address constraints, develop recovery strategies, and ensure commitments are achieved. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, cross-functional manufacturing environment and influencing outcomes across teams without direct reporting authority.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and coordination for assigned programs across manufacturing, planning, supply chain, engineering, quality, and customer-facing functions.
• Serve as a key point of contact between customers and internal cross-functional teams regarding priorities, schedules, risks, and recovery activities.
• Lead recurring program execution meetings to review delivery status, material availability, production constraints, quality issues, and emerging risks.
• Identify and drive resolution of obstacles affecting manufacturing flow, throughput, inventory availability, and critical customer requirements.
• Coordinate the prioritization and expediting of critical materials, components, outside services, and customer-provided equipment to support production requirements.
• Work with buyers, planners, suppliers, material management personnel, and other stakeholders to address shortages and prevent production interruptions.
• Partner with supply chain and planning organizations to allocate constrained materials and resources according to customer commitments and business priorities.
• Coordinate escalations involving supplier performance, material availability, quality issues, engineering changes, and manufacturing constraints.
• Track hardware and order status throughout the manufacturing process, from material receipt through final shipment.
• Develop and manage recovery strategies for past-due orders, supplier delays, changing customer requirements, and other schedule disruptions.
• Present operational risks, mitigation plans, material concerns, and delivery status to senior leadership and customer representatives as appropriate.
• Communicate changes to customer commitments, schedules, risks, and recovery actions to relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain regular communication with customers regarding forecasts, changing priorities, critical requirements, and potential execution issues.
• Support initiatives designed to improve production flow, inventory performance, planning effectiveness, and overall operational efficiency.
• Analyze key operational indicators, including delivery performance, backlog, shortages, production attainment, inventory, and supplier performance, and establish corrective action plans where needed.
• Coordinate the implementation of engineering, manufacturing, configuration, and customer-directed changes while minimizing disruption to ongoing production.
• Participate in contract reviews, proposal activities, production readiness assessments, customer program reviews, and broader business planning initiatives.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 2–5 years of experience in program management, operations, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, production control, or a related manufacturing function.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams against delivery, cost, quality, and schedule objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to manage production schedules, material constraints, operational performance, and customer delivery requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Power BI, and Project, as well as ERP/MRP platforms.
• Understanding of financial forecasting and operational performance metrics.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations management, supply chain management, business administration, or another relevant technical discipline.
• Experience within highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Background managing production recovery efforts, schedule execution, and delivery performance in a complex or high-mix manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience expediting critical materials and components, resolving shortages, and mitigating supply chain risks.
• Experience leading recurring operational, customer, and senior leadership reviews.
• Familiarity with aerospace manufacturing practices, AS9100 quality requirements, and applicable regulatory standards.
• PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, APICS/CPIM, or comparable professional certification.
• Experience with SAP, MFGPRO, or comparable ERP/MRP systems.
• Knowledge of capacity planning, S&OP, demand forecasting, and inventory optimization.