Senior Program Manager IPosted today$116K

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

• Own the full project lifecycle: planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout — for multiple concurrent projects across robotics and electromechanical product lines.

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, work breakdown structures (WBS),: integrated master schedules (IMS), and budgets for each assigned project.

• Establish and enforce planning and control baselines; track cost, schedule,: and technical performance against those baselines and communicate variances proactively.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers on assigned projects;: organize and lead customer milestone reviews such as Kickoff Meetings, PDRs, and CDRs.

• Lead cross-functional project teams consisting of Design, Electrical,: Software, and Manufacturing/Technician personnel, coordinating priorities across simultaneous projects.

• Manage technical and project-level risks; identify scope changes and: contractual modifications; develop and communicate corrective actions in a timely manner.

What they're looking for

• Drive action item tracking and follow-through using agile project management: tools; lead regular team and customer status meetings.
• Compile and present project status, schedule, and cost reporting to customers and senior leadership.
• Support proposal development efforts in partnership with Business: Development, including basis-of-estimate (BOE) generation and proposal documentation.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and: repeatability across the project management function.