Columbia S1B Ship Design Program Rep, Senior/Specialist/Principal

Electric Boats • $110K — $130K *
Groton, CT 06340In-Person
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Five years relevant experience in program/project management
  • Active DOD Secret Clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, or business preferred
  • Six or more years of supervisory or relevant military experience preferred
  • Experience with Government and/or Commercial contracts preferred

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the POC for tactical PO 145185 administration and performance
  • Manage schedules and programmatic budgets, ensuring timely technical product delivery
  • Coordinate responses to emergent design issues and drive team solutions
  • Communicate frequently with NNL and NAVSEA stakeholders
  • Mentor junior personnel in their professional development
  • Develop and implement process improvements
  • Prepare reports and presentations for Program Reviews and customer interactions

Benefits

  • Mentorship opportunities for junior staff
  • Involvement in a high-stakes government contract environment
  • Collaboration with various engineering and business departments
  • Opportunity to enhance project management skills
  • Potential for travel to support program needs
Full Job Description
Overview

In the S1B Program Office, the successful candidate will be responsible for management oversight of the COLUMBIA S1B Design Program lead ship and follow ship contract. This will require the candidate to communicate with contract leads, technical leads, engineering disciplines, design supervision, program finance, purchasing leads, Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and NAVSEA as needed to support and manage selected aspects of the program. This includes managing program funding, oversight of annual program work planning and estimate processes, oversight of technical work, management of the program schedule, and coordinating responses to emergent design issues. Frequent communication with NNL and NAVSEA stakeholders and program management is required.

Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • S1B Design Program Office POC for tactical PO 145185 administration and performance
  • Understand and make key decisions to manage schedules, programmatic budgets, priority, need dates, and drive engineering/design to issue technical products on time and under budget
  • Manage/coordinate responses to emergent program specific design issues and drive the team to a timely solution
  • Frequent communication with NNL and NAVSEA stakeholders and program management
  • Mentoring junior personnel
  • Development and implementation of processes/procedure improvements
  • Review of engineering statements of work for purchase order compliance
  • Work with Construction Span Reduction Stakeholders to facilitate PO 145185 source of funding authorizations when applicable
  • Work with Planning to manage the program Artemis schedule together with Finance
  • Coordinate and manage the program manpower plan with Finance
  • Preparing reports and presentations for Program Reviews and other customer interactions
  • Some travel may be required (


Qualifications

Required:
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Five years relevant experience related to program and/or project management
  • Active DOD Secret Clearance


Preferred:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance or business
  • Six or more years of relevant supervision, program management or military experience
  • Program/Project management experience
  • Detailed knowledge and experience working with Government and/or Commercial contracts
  • Strong background and experience working with both technical and business departments such as: Engineering, Legal, Purchasing, Contracts, Finance, and Materials Management
  • EB program, commercial and or Government component development contract experience or similar external experience


Skills

  • Self-starter capable of prioritizing work and managing time with limited supervision
  • Exhibit strong planning, problem solving, and strong verbal and written communications skills
  • Manage multiple small projects simultaneously
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
  • Ability to manage data and create reports from various data systems
  • Ability to communicate across multiple EB organizations and stakeholders
  • Working knowledge of manpower schedules, phasing files, and EVM metrics

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