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Combat Rescue Helicopter Senior Program Manager

Stratford, Connecticut

Stratford, Connecticut

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Job Responsibilities

Job ID: 699179BR Date posted: Oct. 10, 2025
Description:WHAT WE'RE DOING

The Combat Rescue Helicopter Program (CRH) Senior Manager is responsible for cost, schedule and technical execution of all aspects of the CRH program and reports directly to the Program Director, Combat Rescue Helicopter Program. The CRH aircraft PMs (APMs) will directly report to this role. Responsibilities span both the development and production of the CRH aircraft. This position is also accountable for risk and change management, team leadership and communications, and interface with internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, this role will also work collaboratively with the CRH cross-functional team to drive performance and adherence to customer milestones and expectations. This position is also responsible for meeting our short term and in support of long-term financial objectives.


THE WORK

The CRH Senior Manager is responsible for providing Program Management planning and execution for the CRH program which includes:
• Report to the CRH Program Director and have complete P&L responsibility for the overall program.
• Serve as key program lead, establishing the overall program, contract, and organizational structure, ensuring the program is executable and we can deliver what we propose.
• Lead the aircraft Integrated Product Teams (IPT) to support the CRH program and work with other CRH PMs to develop a solution that balances cost, schedule, and technical risk across all IPTs.
• Communicate program status, challenges, successes, and help needed across the enterprise and up through executive leadership, both internal and external.
• Participate in appropriate capture activities including the Win Strategy and color team reviews. Lead the program team that will perform the program management capture-phase responsibilities, including development of IMS, identification and mitigation of risk, oversight of cost baseline, etc.
• Collaborate with other functions within the AAFS business, Business Development, Engineering & Technology, Finance, Contracts, Legal, Sourcing to ensure the accomplishment of capture/proposal-related milestones.
• Build effective customer relationships and communication. Act as primary customer contact for program-related matters, leading program review sessions with customer to discuss cost, schedule, and technical parameters.
• Work with customer to resolve high-level, technical, programmatic, business, issues. Establish or alter a fundamental ground rule for planned contracts.
• Ensure the program plan baseline is consistent with the requirements baseline and the proposed solution baseline.
• Develop, review and approve project metrics, primarily EVM, to track project health and provide visibility to the Program and Executive management. Ensure development and statusing of an Integrated Master Plan/Integrated Master Schedule (IMP/IMS) and WBS dictionary.
• Oversee efforts to drive to an affordable aircraft. Manage efforts to identify and implement opportunities to meet cost targets.
• Conduct Make/Buy decision meetings. Ensure adequate technical and contractual requirements are established and that documented selection criteria consistent with program requirements and priorities exist to successfully direct source selection decisions.
• Develop and execute 1LMX transformation capability adoption plans for the program
• Develop and execute program plans, meeting contractual commitments, managing program performance, and achieving portfolio orders, sales, EBIT and cash commitments

WHO YOU ARE
You are an experienced Program Manager with a background in capture management and program management of large-scale rotary wing platforms. You have experience in production/sustainment programs
and have the ability to deliver results (sales, orders, EBIT, cash).

WHY JOIN US

You can join us to work on a high-profile program, leading the capture effort and working collaboratively with various functions within the business.
Basic Qualifications:
• Experienced in capture management and program management of large-scale rotary wing platforms
• Experience with obsolescence management, mitigation, and contracting and strong understanding of company financials
• 8-10 years Program / Project Management Experience of production / sustainment programs or related areas
• Demonstrated program management experience with ability to deliver results (sales, orders, EBIT, cash)
• Experience with a Hawk based program (BLACK HAWK/CRH/S70i) and obsolescence management, mitigation, and contracting
• Excellent verbal and written skills necessary to clearly articulate complex plans and strategies to both internal and external organizational audiences, including senior level executives
• Team player – Builds effective customer, team, and partner relationships. Effective at organizing and motivating a diverse set of managers and individual contributors to act as “one” in the pursuit of common objectives. Demonstrated ability to negotiate to a positive outcome with multiple stakeholders.
• An independent worker with a successful track record of managing complex programs on-cost, on-schedule, and providing high-quality deliverables
• Strong Earned Value, program planning, risk and opportunity management skills
Desired Skills:
• Familiarity with Army Universal Helicopter Program Office (UHPO) customer base, and key issues/challenges to be addressed
• Master’s degree in business or engineering
• Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: RMS
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Program Management
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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