Program Manager

Description:
**Your next role**

L3Harris is looking for a Program Manager who will support our Enterprise Network Modernization Program (ENMP) for the AirServices Australia customer.

The role requires excellent leadership and communication skills, a positive approach, highly organised and someone who is keen to work hard alongside peers to make their mark in a high volume, exciting commercial environment.

**What the role will involve**:

- Responsible for the overall cost, schedule and technical performance of the program across the variety of task order-based Statements of Work. This includes relationship management, maintenance of performance schedules, collaborative subcontractor SOW development, identifying risks, and ensuring a smooth, efficient and on-time delivery to the customer.
- Proactive management of high volume of change. This requires an ability to follow the program’s change process and other change mechanisms developed, ensuring timely responses to change requests, ensuring subcontractors meet tight deadlines at times, and coordinating with the Solutions Architect, Project Engineer, Commercial Manager, Subcontracts Program Manager and the Partners on proposal activity.
- Actively lead and manage required Program level and/or Customer reporting and reviews.
- An ability to effectively communicate both verbally but also in writing; in leading meetings, presentations to the AirServices customer, internal team members and consortium partners.
- Collaboratively resolving issues, conflicts, and/or disputes if they arise.
- Managing and working collaboratively with the broader Commercial and Contracts Team and ensuring all commitments are met.
- Working closely with the ENMP team to both obtain and understand relevant information about issues and communicate that to the wider team and manage them to conclusion.
- Understanding of and management of the Finance team to ensure pricing is correct, to establish, monitor and report budgets and variances using Earned Value. Keen understanding of telecommunications pricing methodologies and equipment depreciation rules and schedules.
- An ability to think quickly and have a commercial approach to matters with or without guidance.
- An ability to have hard conversations when required in a manner that maintains important collaborative relationships.
- A strong understanding of the Lean Principles and proactive with process improvements to streamline and improve productivity by the team.
- An ability to process complex information quickly and make commercial decisions.
- Ability to generate and present effectively and professionally.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Degree qualified (Engineering, Business, Project Management, Law) with a substantial amount of previous related experience.
- Substantial experience leading Air Traffic, Defence or Telecommunications systems integration projects
- Substantial experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)

Desirable:

- Background in Systems Engineering
- Background in delivering Telecommunications projects within Australia
- Background in delivering projects into a regulated, safety critical industry such as Air Traffic or Rail within Australia
- Proven ability dealing with high volumes of change management
- Experience in managing large volumes of work effectively
- Proficient in the Microsoft Suite of products

**Important to know**

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

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