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Program Manager, Engineering Reviews
What is it like working as a Program Manager, Engineering?
July 2016
Challenging.
Program Manager, Engineering:
Pros: The level of challenge and work needed to be successful is motivating an highly rewarding.
Cons: The hours and travel affect my family.
May 2016
Program Manager, Engineering:
Pros: The people I work with. The technology.
Cons: Priorities constantly change. Non existent pay scales.
February 2016
Ethically Driven to Provide Products and Services.
Program Manager, Engineering:
Pros: Cutting edge technology, ethics are paramount, top down culture of stewardship with the responsibility to the country and the warfighter.
Cons: Compensation lower than private sector.
September 2015
Good pay, bad raises. Work is as hard as you want it to be.
Program Manager, Engineering:
Pros: I've worked at NGC for six years as an ME and it honestly is as hard or as easy as you want it to be. I've had times where I made myself extremely busy and I've had times where I took it easy.
As an EPM now it is out of my control, it is extremely busy and I have no choice but to try to keep up while going to school full-time. It is hard, but I know it is temporary and will be worth it in the end.
Cons: Repetetiveness/boredom, corporate red-tape, lack of profit sharing, same thing every day...
August 2015
Forward Looking Risk Management.
Program Manager, Engineering:
90% of what you should be doing is risk management. Keep looking forward, surface risks, and determine viable risk reduction methodologies.
May 2014
What It Takes To Advance In Career Field.
Program Manager, Engineering:
If you want to design new things, not manage others to do it, I would not work as a program manger. Career advancement is limited if you do not seem to manage others in doing the design and analysis work.
November 2013
Work that COUNTS
Program Manager, Engineering:
Pros: People and what we do is useful and needed.
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