Senior Program Manager

This is an exciting time to join EMCORE Corporation as we continue our fast-paced growth to becoming the leading provider of advanced Mixed-Signal Optics and MEMS-based products that provide the foundation for today's leading-edge aerospace, inertial navigation, & defense systems.
At EMCORE, we welcome forward thinking and continuously challenging existing processes and methodology. We especially want to host a creative culture for all to learn and grow. If you are resilient and enjoy working in a dynamic high growth environment, then you belong with us. (www.emcore.com)
Job Summary:
EMCORE Corporation is seeking a Project Manager, Inertial Sensors to lead product development projects with significant complexity, risk, and impact for our Aerospace and Defense business segment. In addition to overseeing prime subcontract projects with FAR/DFAR compliance flowdowns. Navigate your way to a rewarding career with potential for growth.
Maintain an overview and understanding of technical interdependencies in order to proactively identify solutions to complex problems. Actively manage our key stakeholders in a dynamic environment including negotiating tradeoffs and schedule risks. Conduct forward-thinking risk management and identify possible mitigation measures and backup scenarios. Continuously assess progress and adjust the project plan with the given boundary conditions to ensure that goals are met. Anticipate and proactively manage significant changes to the existing project plan.
Do you identify as a natural leader? Are you skilled in overseeing the risk, cost, and schedule objectives across a matrixed team? Our team is seeking a qualified individual to lead the Project Management functional areas, ensuring an accountable, efficient, and consistent project execution. Join our team today!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the Project Management functional areas, ensuring an accountable, efficient, and consistent project execution.
• Oversee the risk, cost, and schedule objectives across the group for all projects.
• Primary point of contact to project stakeholders and contributors, providing regular updates.
• Contribute to business requirements gathering and documentation as well as project business case analysis, ensuring projects are aligned to Company goals.
• Define and deploy R&D excellence initiatives.
• Establish and maintain synchronized R&D KPI's and reporting system for project portfolio.
• Drive best-practice sharing, lessons learned and benchmarking.
• Drive change management to leverage synergies across the business line and develop new approaches that improve overall efficiency and effectiveness of all R&D functions.
• Develop and maintain a project management team to ensure the availability of expertise and experienced personnel needed to meet the project demands.

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:

• Emcore expects that this position will have a starting salary range of $160k to $180k.
• This position is onsite and is located at our facility in Concord, CA.
• 10+ years of management and similar project management experience.
• Experience with a project management tool for planning and reporting.
• Experience in government subcontracting requirements.
• Strong understanding of R&D environment and processes.
• Proven customer relationship management experience.
• In-depth project management knowledge in terms of project initiation, planning and closing including reporting and documentation.
• Understanding and structuring complex project situations.
• Drive for ambitious results and accountability of business needs.
• Ability to work cross-departmentally in order to achieve common business objectives.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering.

Desired Characteristics:

• Managing crisis situations and consolidating and presenting those to senior management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or relevant project management credentials a plus.
• Masters in Business Administration (BMA) a plus.

*As a federal contractor, we are required to have all candidates offered employment to pass a criminal background check and a multi-panel drug screening, prior to starting employment.
*ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
Separate from employment eligibility (Form I-9), U.S. export license requirements may apply before the Company can provide certain non-"U.S. persons" with access to specific technology, software and hardware that may be necessary for a position. As such, this position may require ITAR or EAR clearance.
EMCORE Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.