Senior Program Manager

Built on Experience. Built for Skill. Built for You.

Keel was formed by bringing together three industry leaders combining generations of hands-on expertise in steel fabrication, shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense manufacturing.

That means when you join Keel, you’re joining a team backed by decades of proven craftsmanship and real-world results.

We build ships, defense systems, aerospace components, and heavy steel structures that serve critical missions — and we do it with pride.

Your Mission:

The Senior Program Manager provides strategic leadership and oversight across complex, multi-disciplinary programs to ensure exceptional functional, technical, and financial performance of company initiatives. This role drives cross organizational alignment, optimizes program execution, and ensures the successful delivery of high value projects that support company goals and customer commitments.

Explore the Depth of the Role:

• Leads the end to end planning, execution, and governance of assigned programs, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, budgets, and timelines.
• Owns program level performance metrics and provides executive level reporting on schedules, financials, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and critical paths.
• Develops, maintains, and communicates comprehensive program strategies, roadmaps, and plans; ensures consistent documentation, clear decision making, and timely escalation of issues.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for key customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, ensuring high quality communication, expectation management, and relationship stewardship.
• Provides leadership across cross functional teams to ensure program success, including engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, and quality.
• Oversees the development and approval of work orders, change requests, and customer invoicing, ensuring compliance with financial controls and contract requirements.
• Identifies, analyzes, and mitigates program risks while proactively pursuing opportunities to improve quality, throughput, and profitability.
• Guides the creation of program documentation, executive presentations, and updates for internal and external reviews.
• Ensures effective management of technical data, configuration control, and program documentation requirements.
• Partners closely with manufacturing and fabrication partners as well as internal leadership to resolve issues, support production needs, and ensure program objectives are consistently met.
• Mentors and supports junior program staff, providing guidance on project management tools, processes, and best practices.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.