C-17 Training System Operations Program Manager

About This Role

The C-17 Training System Operations Program Manager plans, organizes, and controls all C-17 Operational Training Sites from conceptual stages through program life cycles. This role optimizes profit, meets marketing and financial objectives, and ensures corporate growth by managing day-to-day site progress, leading program staff, and applying change, risk, and resource management to complex programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage the C-17 Training System Operations and Maintenance Program for all C-17 Training Sites.
• Manage day-to-day progress of sites through interaction with site managers, staff, instructors, engineers, technicians, government representatives, and training support personnel.
• Lead, mentor, and evaluate program staff at various CONUS and OCONUS C-17 training sites.
• Apply change, risk, and resource management to complex programs using various tools.
• Ensure sites comply with Union Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), participating in grievance, arbitration, and renegotiation activities.
• Collaborate daily with engineering, marketing, manufacturing, logistics, cybersecurity, and operations to meet cost, schedule, and performance goals.
• Participate in overall program management discipline evolution within the organization.
• Analyze and resolve simple and moderately complex problems using project management tools.
• Provide technical expertise and training to other CAE USA departments in support of the program.
• Maintain teaming associations with subcontractors and manage their performance.
• Prepare, conduct, and run medium to large technical and management meetings with internal and external customers.
• Proactively provide leadership continual feedback on key program metrics and contract activities using existing tools and feedback mechanisms.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Military Air Mobility Management Experience
• C-17 experience (managing C-17 training at Wing, Group, and Squadron Level)
• Strong knowledge of C-17 flight simulator and training services market
• Experience in managing the development of training solutions
• Excellent knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office
• Outstanding leadership and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Ability to reason, plan, direct, and evaluate situations to make appropriate recommendations and actions
• Ability to demonstrate leadership ability with complex reasoning and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to effectively present information to customer representatives, top CAE USA management, and public groups
• US Citizenship required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Military Air Mobility Management Experience, C-17 experience required.

Nice to Have

• Former C-17 Evaluator/Instructor
• Former C-17 Squadron, Group, or Wing Commander
• C-17 Weapons School Graduate
• Graduate level coursework
• Complex financial managerial skills (budgetary and proposal activities)
• Basic knowledge of accounting
• Working knowledge of program/project management software

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits