The board
- Where
- Austin, TX
- Posted
- Aug 20
Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations through autonomous and intelligent platforms.
Job Overview
Saronic Technologies is seeking a Program Manager to own the execution and delivery of Marauder, our 180-foot Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) produced at our Franklin, LA shipyard. This is a flagship large-scale production program, and the Program Manager is accountable for its cost, schedule, scope, and customer outcomes from contract award through delivery and sustainment.
Marauder is built at production scale and fielded across a wide and evolving range of complex missions.
What you'd do
- Own end-to-end execution of the Marauder program, holding accountability for cost, schedule, scope, and quality from award through delivery and sustainment.
- Serve as a leader and owner of the customer contract, deliverables, milestones, CDRLs, and contractual obligations.
- Build and maintain the integrated program plan, aligning productions scheduled, engineering milestones, and integration timelines to customer commitments.
- Drive risk and opportunity management across the program, escalating and resolving issues that threaten cost, schedule, or performance.
- Report program health, forecasts, and decisions to Saronic leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Partner with the Franklin production team to plan and execute rate production of a 180-foot ASV, from long-lead procurement through hull construction, outfitting, and delivery.
- Monitor build sequencing, work breakdown, and production milestones to protect throughput while meeting quality and acceptance criteria.
- Monitor and mitigate production risks—supply chain, labor, tooling, and facility constraints—unique to large-vessel shipbuilding.
- Coordinate with Quality and Production to ensure build configurations and acceptance events meet customer and contractual standards.
- Own the configuration strategy for Marauder across a variety of mission packages, kits, and payloads on a common production hull.
What they want
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Naval Architecture, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in program management of large-scale production, shipbuilding, or complex defense development programs. Program Management experience of Unmanned Surface Vessels highly desirable.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interface confidently with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ownership of cost, schedule, and scope on programs of significant size and complexity.
- Experience managing production at rate, including supply chain, build sequencing, and delivery of large or complex hardware systems highly desirable.
- Proven ability to manage government or defense customers, contracts, and deliverables.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Secret security clearance eligibility required, active preferred.