Job Title: Program Manager Optical Communication Terminal Production
Job Category: Project and Program Management
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
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The Opportunity:
CACI is looking for a Program Manager to join our Space Line of Business, supporting our Optical Communications team. Our space portfolio develops and provides high reliability electronics, sensors and data processing products that protect the warfighter, provide the nation’s decision and policy maker’s essential information for strategic and tactical planning and policy operations.
You will lead a program delivering advanced optical communications terminals for space applications. This role is the primary interface to the customer, a prime contractor to the US Space Force Space Development Agency. You are responsible for full program execution across cost, schedule, scope, technical performance, manufacturing readiness, and customer satisfaction.
If you have a passion for innovation and want to help shape the next generation of space based communications solutions, apply now and join the team!
Responsibilities:
Provide overall program leadership, planning, organization, and control to ensure successful completion of program goals and objectives.
Serve as the primary customer interface, ensuring alignment between technical execution, manufacturing performance, delivery schedules, and mission objectives.
Manage and oversee Cost Account Managers (CAMs), ensuring proper baseline planning, performance tracking, variance analysis, and financial accountability.
Lead formal cost accounting and reporting activities, including cost baseline establishment, EAC/BAC variance assessment, cost risks and opportunities, and monthly financial performance updates.
Develop, maintain, and analyze the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), integrating subcontractor schedules, program milestones, reviews, manufacturing phases, and risk drivers. Conduct schedule risk assessments, evaluate changes to the critical path, and implement corrective actions.
Direct structured risk management processes, including risk identification, probability/impact analysis, mitigation planning, and burn-down tracking. Maintain and present formal risk reporting.
Hold budgetary responsibility, including influencing resource allocation, optimizing costs, increasing revenue opportunities, and ensuring financial targets are achieved.
Prepare and lead program reviews, including cost, schedule, technical maturity, risk status, EAC sustainment, and performance metrics. Ensure high-quality communication with senior leadership and customer stakeholders.
Manage Failure Review Boards (FRBs) and root-cause analysis activities for technical, manufacturing, integration, or test issues. Drive corrective actions and preventive measures.
Oversee technical integration across optical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal subsystems. Ensure design for manufacturability, design for assembly, and engineering readiness.
Provide oversight to project managers, task leads, functional leaders, subcontractors, and support personnel. Ensure coordinated execution and a unified program strategy.
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, business, or related technical field.
7+ years of experience in the space or aerospace hardware industry.
3+ years direct program management experience in hardware assembly, integration, and testing.
Experience managing CAMs and operating within an EVMS environment (EAC development, variance analysis, control account planning).
Demonstrated ability to develop, maintain, and analyze an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), including critical path analysis and schedule risk assessments.
Proficiency with scheduling tools such as MS Project or Primavera.
Experience leading structured risk management processes, including mitigation planning and risk burn down…