Program Manager — Technical Programs

Job overview

The Program Manager — Technical Programs role is onsite in Virginia Beach, VA. Pay is $125,000–$130,000 per year. Ultralife designs and manufactures power solutions, communications, and electronics systems for markets including government and defense, medical, safety and security, energy, industrial, and robotics. The program manager leads cross-functional execution from development through qualification, production readiness, customer delivery, and sustainment. The role maintains program visibility and drives commitments, decisions, and recovery actions so teams can meet program goals and customer requirements.

What you'll do

• Create and maintain integrated program plans
• monitor schedules, critical paths, forecasts, and variances
• coordinate budgets and cost forecasts
• maintain risk, opportunity, action, decision, and change records
• lead cross-functional reviews
• coordinate design reviews, prototype builds, verification, qualification, production readiness, and deliveries
• maintain requirements and program records with traceability
• coordinate transition to repeatable production
• communicate program status and risks to customers and partners
• support proposals, statements of work, estimates, contract reviews, and change requests
• coordinate supplier, partner, post-delivery, corrective-action, configuration-update, and sustainment activities.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

program manager

technical programs

virginia beach va

ultralife corporation

$125k–$130k/year

program execution

cross-functional leadership

risk management

production readiness

customer delivery

20–30% travel

electronics systems

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Typically requires 8 or more years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience; approximately 20–30% travel may be required based on program and customer needs.

About the employer

Ultralife Corporation is hiring for this role. Industry: Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals. Sector: 33.