Sustainment Project Manager

About us
One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What you'll do
We are seeking a Sustainment Project Manager to coordinate sustainment and lifecycle support activities for satellite ground systems supporting government and commercial customers. These systems require ongoing operational support, maintenance, and periodic upgrades to ensure mission success and system availability.

This position will manage multiple small to medium-sized sustainment projects and serve as a key liaison between customers, technical teams, and operational stakeholders. The role is responsible for coordinating project activities, tracking performance, supporting customer needs, and ensuring successful delivery of sustainment services across a geographically distributed infrastructure.

The day-to-day
This team member will work closely with customers, operational users, engineering teams, and mission partners to support the delivery of sustainment services and technical capabilities. The Sustainment Project Manager will regularly engage with government and commercial customers, operational users, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders to coordinate project activities, address customer needs, and support mission objectives.

The successful candidate must be capable of building positive working relationships across organizational boundaries and effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously, and willsupport all aspects of project execution, including customer engagement, schedule management, project reporting, risk tracking, technical coordination, and subcontractor management.

Manage multiple sustainment, maintenance, and upgrade projects supporting satellite ground stations and associated mission systems

Serve as a primary point of contact for routine customer communications and project coordination activities

Build and maintain effective working relationships with customers, operational users, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders

Represent the company in customer meetings, project reviews, technical interchange meetings (TIMs), and status briefings

Coordinate project activities to ensure alignment between customer requirements, subcontractor deliverables, and operational objectives

Support operational readiness, system availability, and mission continuity objectives

Assist in planning and coordinating sustainment, modernization, and technology refresh activities

Track project cost, schedule, risks, action items, and technical performance metrics

Prepare project status reports, meeting minutes, and customer deliverables

Identify and escalation project risks, issues, and resource constraints as appropriate

Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and company processes

Prepare proposals for contract renewals

What you'll need

5+ years' project management, project coordination, operations, engineering support or related experience

Experience supporting DoD, aerospace, satellite communications, telecommunications or technology programs

Validated experience supporting customer-facing technical projects

Proven ability to coordinate activities across cross-functional teams

Demonstrated organizational, communication and problem-solving skills

Bachelors degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent experience

U.S. Government position. US Citizenship required

Active DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain when administratively feasible

Ability to travel up to 15%

What will help you on the job

Familiarity with sustainment, maintenance, operations, or lifecycle support activities

Knowledge of satellite communications, networking, ground systems, or mission support environments

Experience preparing customer briefings, project status reports, and executive summaries

CAPM, PMP or equivalent project management certification, or willingness to obtain

Active DoD Secret clearance

Experience using Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project management tools

Salary range
$94,500.00 - $149,000.00 / annually.For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $117,000.00- $176,000.00/ annually

At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat's comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at

EEO Statement
Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.

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