Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Manufacturing Program Managers who deliver programs of record — EVM cost and schedule ownership, milestone and gate reviews, rate-ramp planning, and supplier readiness inside ITAR-controlled, DFARS/CMMC-aligned environments for defense primes and space manufacturers. Delivery records verified, not just program titles.
A structured process for the hire that answers to the customer — where a weak program manager surfaces variance at the gate review instead of three months before it.
30-minute call. Align on program phase (EMD, LRIP, or full rate), rate targets, EVM rigor, customer cadence, clearance requirements, and start date.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Manufacturing Program Managers with verified program-of-record delivery in comparable environments. References from PMO and operations leadership included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee. If the hire fails within the warranty window, we run a no-fee replacement search.
Defense primes and space manufacturers are ramping programs faster than the cleared program-management bench has grown. The Manufacturing Program Managers we shortlist have taken hardware from CDR through rate production — with the EVM data to prove it.
Every candidate has owned milestones on a program of record — gate reviews passed, first articles delivered, rate ramps achieved — verified with the PMO leadership who graded them.
Reference-verified CPI/SPI ownership, variance analysis, and IBR participation — program managers whose earned-value story holds up in front of DCMA and the customer.
Verified supplier rate-readiness work — capacity assessments, source approvals, recovery plans — plus working fluency in ITAR discipline and DFARS/CMMC flowdown environments.
Manufacturing Program Manager hires live and die on delivery credibility, EVM rigor, and customer trust. Below is what every candidate has documented before you meet them:
Reference-verified gate and milestone history — SRR through CDR, first article, LRIP, and rate decisions — on named programs.
Verified CPI/SPI accountability, variance narratives, and corrective-action plans that recovered schedule or cost.
Verified LRIP-to-full-rate ramp experience — capacity modeling, tooling and test capacity, and workforce plans that hit rate.
Documented supplier assessments, dual-source or recovery actions, and on-dock performance improvement on constrained commodities.
US-person status confirmed for ITAR scope; active or reinstatable clearances verified where the program requires them.
Program-manager comp bands, including clearance premiums, aligned before finalists are introduced.
“Program Manager” means different things at EMD, LRIP, and full rate. Below are the profiles we recruit for:
We’ll help scope the role on the call — program phase, EVM rigor, clearance needs, and level.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks from scoping call. Total time to placement is typically 3–5 weeks; clearance verification and facility-access timing can add lead time on cleared programs, so we confirm eligibility early.
Direct-hire search is contingency — a 20% success fee on first-year base salary, with no upfront fee on single roles. Multi-hire programs route through embedded recruiting or RPO, which price as a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee — typically well below stacked contingency fees at volume.
Most US Manufacturing Program Managers land between $130K and $170K base. Defense primes and space manufacturers typically run $160K–$205K for candidates with rate-ramp history on programs of record, with active clearances commanding a premium. We confirm live comps during scoping.
The Manufacturing Program Manager answers to the customer for one program’s cost, schedule, and delivery across functions. A Plant Manager owns the site — every program that runs through it. High-rate sites need both, and we will tell you which seat your gap actually is.
Yes. Our aerospace & defense manufacturing practice runs US-person pipelines for ITAR-controlled programs, verifies clearance status where required, and screens for DFARS and CMMC environment familiarity.
Yes. Every Manufacturing Program Manager placement carries a replacement guarantee, with terms confirmed in writing at engagement start.
Yes. Multi-hire builds — program managers plus planners, IPT leads, and Supplier Quality Engineers — route through embedded recruiting or RPO.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll review the Manufacturing Program Manager role you need — program phase, rate targets, EVM rigor, clearance requirements — then recommend the right hire path and start sourcing.
