Contract Maintenance Professional Level 3

The Birchmere Group

$90K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12 years in DoD, IC, or commercial contract management or finance with a Bachelor’s in Business required.
  • CFCM, CDFM certification, or DAWIA Level I in Contracting and Program Management may substitute for education.
  • 15 years of total experience can substitute if certifications are not held, with an additional 2 years required for some cases.
  • Experience in tracking cost, schedule, and performance for programs/projects/contracts is necessary.
  • Writing Completion tasks experience required.
  • Experience with award fee incentive contracts is mandatory.
  • Intermediate MS Excel proficiency needed, including pivot tables and charts.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in administering contracts through drafting modifications and tracking deliverables.
  • Conduct burn rate analysis and update funding run-out dates.
  • Review invoices and report discrepancies to the Government Contract Manager.
  • Prepare contract funding estimates and funding tables for delivery orders.
  • Track contract performance and funding against DoD goals and identify cost issues.
  • Monitor contract compliance by attending status reviews and tracking due dates for key documents.
  • Conduct maintenance activities for complex contracts with multiple technical task orders.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with government partnerships.
  • Exposure to a wide variety of contract types and management processes.
  • Opportunities for professional growth in contract management.
  • Involvement in impactful projects within the defense sector.
Full Job Description
Contract Maintenance Professional (CMP) Level 3

Assist the Government in administering contracts to include drafting of modifications to contract documents such as TTOs, Award Fee Plans, and CDRLs; tracking, analyzing, and reporting contract costs; and monitoring and reporting on contractor performance to ensure compliance with contract terms and receipt of goods and services.

The Level 3 Contract Maintenance Professional shall possess the following capabilities:

  • Update burn rates using corporate template; conduct burn rate analysis and track funding run
  • out dates.
  • Review invoices in accordance with the most recent BM&A Invoice Review Desk
  • Guide and contract clauses; report any discrepancies to Government Contract Manager (GCM).
  • Draft modification to existing Technical Task Orders (TTOs).
  • Refine requirements with COR-T to ensure within contract scope; draft TTOs for CM.
  • Prepare TTO/Delivery Order funding tables.
  • Prepare de-obligation forms including all applicable attachments.
  • Review/track requisitions for accuracy and communicate to BFMs corrections needed in order to adhere to GCM's plan.
  • Track contract funding against DoD/BM&A goals for commitment, obligation, and outlay
  • Track contract costs at the TTO, fundcite/CLIN/SLIN, and budget center levels.
  • Analyze estimates provided by contractors to determine if estimates are in alignment with CM
  • guidance and burn rate analysis.
  • Analyze QAR data to ensure in line with burn rate analysis prior to COR submission/approval.
  • Review spend plan data to ensure contracts have sufficient funding planned.
  • Assist with the validation of ULO and TAR lines for contracts.
  • Identify cost overruns and underruns on contracts.
  • Track award fee pool and calculate earned fee for the period as well as any incurred interest.
  • Assist in preparing contract funding estimates for Continuing Resolutions (CRs) and for spend plan build.
  • Track CPEA due dates and consolidate Government-provided input on past performance. Utilize appropriate CPEA form for given contract type.
  • Assist the GCM in monitoring contract performance through attendance at Contract/Program Status Reviews.
  • Track due dates for award/incentive fee documentation and consolidate Government-provided input on contractor performance using the standard BM&A report format.
  • Compare submitted resumes against labor category requirements and report any discrepancies to GCM.
  • Assist in responses to data calls for contract execution information
  • Conduct contract maintenance activities for a wide variety of contract types.
  • Track receipt of CDRL items, including CAP and annual inventory reports, against due dates and report any discrepancies with format, distribution, schedule and/or content to the GCM.
  • Review DD254s annually to ensure contact, vendor, and access/storage requirements are accurate and appropriate for work being performed.
  • Assist the Government in identifying future ordering period/fiscal year/option year contract requirements.
  • Conduct contract maintenance activities for complex contracts with many TTOs.


Qualifications:

  • Twelve (12) years of DoD, IC, or commercial experience in contract management or finance and a Bachelor's Degree with a business focus is required.
  • In lieu of a degree, Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM) certification, or CDFM certification or DAWIA Level I in both Contracting and Program Management plus an additional three (3) years of directly related experience for a total of fifteen (15) years may be substituted.
  • In lieu of certification, an additional two (2) years of directly related experience for a total of seventeen (17) years may be substituted.
  • Experience in the tracking of programs/project/contract status in areas of cost, schedule and performance is required.
  • Experience writing Completion tasks is required.
  • Experience with award fee incentivized contracts required.
  • Experience using NSA's financial management system and its interfaces (currently FACTS and CMIS) is preferred.
  • Intermediate proficiency with MS Excel is required to include demonstrated use of pivot tables, slicers, and pivot charts.

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