Program Manager, Senior

About FlightSafety International

FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Purpose of Position

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for owning strategic enterprise-critical programs requiring executive assurance. This role provides leadership assurance on performance, compliance, and delivery predictability; manages multiple Program Managers; and drives execution aligned to enterprise strategy and customer commitments.

The Senior Program Manager operates with high autonomy and is accountable for program outcomes, executive-level stakeholder confidence, and sustained performance across long-duration or multi-region initiatives.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Owns delivery of strategic program objectives and outcomes aligned to enterprise strategy and customer commitments.
• Establishes governance structures, decision cadences, and escalation pathways to support predictable execution.
• Drives alignment on priorities, tradeoffs, and investment decisions across leadership stakeholders.
• Expert experience leading complex programs involving multiple cross-functional teams and interdependent deliverables
• Expert financial acumen including budget accountability, forecast decision-making, cost control strategy, and margin management, leveraging Program Controls for independent forecasting and variance analysis
• Provides executive-level delivery performance reporting, including clear accountability for outcomes, risks, and recovery actions.
• Owns and leads recovery strategies for materially challenged programs.
• Leads risk management across complex portfolios of interdependent work, including regulatory, contractual, technical, and operational risks.
• Ensures compliance posture and audit readiness across governed environments.
• Partners with finance, contracts, controls, quality, and security stakeholders to ensure disciplined execution.
• Leads and develops Program Managers and senior delivery leaders; sets expectations for execution, rigor and transparency.
• Contributes to enterprise standards, maturity improvements, and best-practice adoption across the program management community.

Minimum Education

• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in lieu of degree: 15–18+ years owning strategic, enterprise-critical programs with executive visibility, regulatory or contractual accountability, and leadership of multiple Program Managers.
• Certifications: PMP® Required

Minimum Experience

• 12–15+ years of progressively responsible experience, including ownership of strategic, enterprise-critical programs with executive visibility, regulatory or contractual accountability, and leadership of multiple Program Managers.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Expert experience leading strategic, enterprise-critical programs with significant business, customer, or operational impact, including complex stakeholder ecosystems and competing priorities
• Advanced financial leadership, including ownership of program-level financial commitments, long-range forecast decisions, and governance of performance drivers and corrective actions, leveraging Program Controls for independent analysis
• Executive influence and decision-framing capability, including negotiation, alignment, and escalation leadership across senior stakeholders and customers
• Strong compliance and governance discipline across regulated or customer-governed environments, including accountability for program adherence to established controls, audit readiness, and performance transparency
• Ability to build executive confidence through clear, decision-ready communication of program status, risks, forecast position, and recovery strategies, ensuring alignment between commitments and execution reality
• Demonstrated leadership in developing and leading Program Managers, strengthening execution discipline, forecast credibility, and adoption of enterprise standards across programs

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate. The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate.

FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of required compliance reviews, including verification that the candidate is not prohibited from employment under U.S. economic sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

This position may require access to export-controlled technology or services subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employment consideration and any offer of employment are contingent upon the applicant’s ability to comply with these requirements, including qualifying as a “U.S. Person” under applicable regulations or otherwise eligible for export authorization within a timeframe consistent with business needs. A “U.S. Person” includes U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (holders of approved and unexpired green cards), and certain refugees or asylees with protected status under U.S. law.

This position may also require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance for the duration of employment.

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