Program Manager - Program Integration WAX 01.4.04

Job Description

Job Description

Join a team where innovation meets mission, our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With more than 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI & data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with purpose.

We’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for six consecutive years and named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming environment for those looking to grow and make a meaningful impact. We encourage employees to push boundaries and help solve critical, world-changing federal challenges.

Credence has an immediate opening for a Program Manager- Program Integration at the senior level supporting AFLCMC/WAX at Wright Patterson AFB, OH.

The Plans and Programs Division supports the modernization and sustainment of Fighter and Advanced Aircraft (F&AA) capabilities for the U.S. Air Force and coalition partners. The division manages capability planning, technology integration, program oversight, and cross-functional processes—including airworthiness, configuration management, system safety, and cybersecurity—from concept through fielding. It also develops future capability roadmaps in collaboration with Air Force Major Commands (MAJCOMs) and other key stakeholders.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below:

• Program Integration & Execution: Independently analyze, plan, design, develop, and evaluate project efforts; provide expert-level issue resolution and specialized support across program management, logistics, maintenance, supply, financial management, test, security, information management, and contracting.
• Stakeholder Relations & Interagency Coordination: Build and maintain partnerships between the program office, supporting government offices, contractors, USAF AFMC, AFLCMC, AFRL, ACC, AFGSC, and higher-HQ staff to support F/B capability plans.
• F-15 Portfolio Advocacy & Representation: Serve as the primary advocate for F-15 requirements within the Directorate. Understand F-15 priorities well enough to identify issues, represent the portfolio, and communicate requirements to Directorate leadership.
• Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Act comfortably across organizations, representing the F-15 perspective during portfolio-level decision-making. Prepare and deliver high-impact data, briefings, and strategic recommendations at the General Officer level.
• Service Core Function & S&T Advocacy: Represent the F/B portfolio in the Service Core Function process and perform activities to influence science and technology (S&T) investment decisions favorably.
•   MAJCOM & Warfighter Requirements Expertise: Leverage USAF MAJCOM experience (HQ USAF, ACC, or AFGSC) to analyze broad user warfighter requirements and serve as a key advisor to leadership on mission-critical capability needs.
• Meeting & Briefing Support: Prepare, review, and finalize data, documentation, and presentations for IPTs, Program Management Reviews (PMRs), TIMs, working groups, and conferences.
• Materiel Solutions & High-Confidence Acquisition: Support analytic needs identification, early systems engineering, test/evaluation strategies, technology/manufacturing maturity, life-cycle analyses, cost estimates, and early acquisition intelligence.
• Trade-Space & Lifecycle Planning: Bridge warfighter needs to materiel solutions by conducting trade-space and system-of-systems assessments, identifying risk drivers, and incorporating comprehensive lifecycle planning from pre-concept through disposal.
• Acquisition Policy & Process Expertise: Apply deep knowledge of acquisition processes, policies, streamlining, integrated weapon systems management, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Cross-Functional & IPT Coordination: Execute collaborative processes with IPTs and cross-cutting stakeholders for capability planning, trade-space evaluations, and risk mitigation.
• Engineering Liaison & Team Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between user requirements and organic engineering activities, representing F/B interests in TIMs, working groups, and Collaborative Capability Team activities.
• Tradeoff Studies & S&T Application: Conduct studies and tradeoff analyses for future platform capabilities, applying S&T principles to identify lifecycle opportunities and reduce costs.
• Strategic Capability Planning: Provide comprehensive capability planning—including technology solution sets, strategy, cost savings, and sustainment—to support the F/B portfolio.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance
• Master’s or Doctorate Degree in a related field and ten years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, five years of which must be in the DoD
• OR, Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five of which must be in the DoD
• OR, 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, eight of which must be in the DoD.
• Experience with F-15 program and understanding of the F-15 mission, priorities, and future direction preferred.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Training & Development