Technical Program Manager Networking

Job description

**Date Posted:**

2025-09-30
**Country:**

United States of America
**Location:**

IL414: 1337 Park Plza Dr BBN O'Fallon 1337 Park Plaza Drive Suite 3, O'Fallon, IL, 62269 USA
**Position Role Type:**

Hybrid
**U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:**

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​
**Security Clearance:**

DoD Clearance: Top Secret

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide.

It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity.

The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

For over 70 years, RTX BBN Technologies has solved real-world problems through research, exploration, development, and prototyping.

We collaborate with top technical talent to pioneer transformative solutions.

BBN’s Network & Cyber Technologies (NCT) team leverages math, engineering, and physics to tackle customer challenges in network and communications, EW, and cyber domains.

We specialize in information exchange, protection, and exploitation.

This is a position for candidates with research and development (R&D) program management experience.

In this role, you will provide key program management and pursuit support enabling NCT technical staff to win and deliver innovative solutions to customers in the Networking domain.

For pursuit activities, you will work directly with our tech director to meet with customers, pursue new applied research concepts, and develop winning proposals as the capture manager.

As the program manager for new awards, you will work collaboratively with our principal investigators (PI) to help coordinate resources, track progress, facilitate collaboration, and ensure on-time delivery within budget.

Your leadership and organizational skills will empower our engineers and scientists to push boundaries and meet critical customer needs.

**What you will do:**

+ Manage the pre-proposal pursuit process across multiple early-concept opportunities with various government R&D customers.
+ Lead capture on proposal responses to BAAs and RFPs to include managing the capture, coordinating with subcontractors, collaborating with the technical team to write the technical volume, working with internal contracts and finance teams to produce the cost volume.
+ Coordinate extensively across technical and functional support staff to enable on-time, on-budget delivery
+ Translate and track customer needs, and advise technical experts and senior leaders on optimal solutions
+ Monitor spending, staffing, schedules, contracts, purchases, and deliverables
+ Manage schedules, resources, and budgets to ensure execution within cost targets
+ Identify, track, and escalate program risks and issues for mitigation
+ Facilitate collaboration through clear communication and information sharing
+ Employ PM best practices and tools to maintain alignment across complex projects
+ Deliver regular project updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership
+ Lead review meetings, inform decision making, and coordinate across project interdependencies
+ Drive achievement of milestones through resource planning and progress tracking

**What you will gain:**

+ Exposure to cutting-edge technical work and innovative research
+ Collaborate with a motivated, engaged team of experts pushing boundaries
+ Develop hands-on experience managing complex defense projects
+ Build program management skills through resource coordination and planning, scheduling, and budget oversight
+ Visibility into the end-to-end program lifecycle from concept to delivery
+ Interact closely with customers to understand emerging capability needs
+ Contribute to developing solutions that give warfighters a decisive technology edge
+ Strengthen communication, organization, and leadership skills
+ Advance your career as a program management professional working with pioneering technologies

**Qualifications You Must Have:**

+ Active Secret clearance
+ Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 10 years of experience, or an advanced degree with 7 years experience
+ Experience shaping, pursuing, and capturing new opportunities through customer interactions and proposal development.
+ Experience executing program management practices on Government-funded R&D contracts.
+ Experience planning, staffing, and tracking multi-person projects
+ Must have experience contributing to strategic IRAD project development and investments
+ Resourceful problem-solver able to spot issues, communicate risks, and take action to solve problems
+ Collaborative team player passionate about technology
+ Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, and financial tracking in Excel
+ Proficiency with collaboration tools such as Confluence and Teams
+ Strong written and verbal communication skills
+ Position may require some amount of overnight travel

**Qualifications We Prefer - Familiar with all, Expert in some:**

+ Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
+ Excellent communication and relationship building skills
+ Initiates, prioritizes, and manages multiple tasks and programs effectively
+ Prior experience managing subcontractors
+ Eager learner focused on continuous PM skills development
+ Skilled at project scheduling, reporting, and stakeholder management
+ Experience in research and development of Networking and Comms, EW, or Cyber capabilities
+ Interest in the pursuit and capture process for competitive proposals for Government funding
+ Active Secret security clearance

U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment.

**What We Offer**

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.

Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

• Relocation Assistance available

• **_This position is Onsite at our O'Fallon, IL office_**

**To help you achieve your goals, BBN will provide:**

+ A strong leadership team well-versed in government R&D.
+ A collaborative and collegial environment to push state-of-the-art research.
+ Technically competent pool of research scientists who are willing to mentor, listen, and help you refine your research vision and goals.
+ Business development, programmatic, contracting, finance, and HR support.
+ Access, through RTX, to opportunities that help transition your research and ultimately see it fielded.

The salary range for this role is 124,000 USD - 250,000 USD.

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.
RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role.

If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted.

However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

_RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class.

RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act._

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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