Position Title: Senior Manufacturing and Industrial Base SMELocation: Arlington, Virginia
Category: Contingent upon contract award
Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time
Travel Required: Yes
Shift: Day
Remote Type: Hybrid
Clearance required: Top Secret clearance required Salary: $175,000 - $190,000 ***THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*** Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced
Senior Manufacturing and Industrial Base SME to provide senior manufacturing, capacity, facility, tooling, workforce, quality, and industrial-base expertise to validate constraints and design executable interventions.
Responsibilities: Manufacturing and Production Assessment: - Assess manufacturing processes, production flow, capacity, throughput, cycle time, work in process, yield, quality, equipment utilization, test capability, and schedule performance for assigned programs.
- Identify and validate constraints involving material, labor, tooling, equipment, facilities, engineering, quality, test, planning, and lower-tier suppliers.
- Evaluate current and planned production rates, surge potential, capacity-expansion proposals, recovery schedules, and readiness to meet Navy demand.
- Apply manufacturing and operational judgment to distinguish symptoms from root causes and determine which constraints have the greatest effect on weapon-system deliveries.
Industrial Base and Supplier Analysis: - Analyze prime contractor and supplier capabilities, critical dependencies, sole-source exposure, long-lead materials, obsolescence, workforce limitations, and other sources of industrial fragility.
- Assess how infrastructure, capital equipment, technology, qualification requirements, market conditions, demand stability, and supplier economics affect production performance.
- Support supplier and production-site engagements, data reviews, interviews, and working sessions with program offices, industry, DCMA, and other authorized stakeholders.
- Evaluate industry assertions, supplier recovery plans, investment requests, alternate-source strategies, and manufacturing-improvement proposals against available evidence.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, supplier development, workforce action, technology adoption, alternate sourcing, infrastructure modernization, or targeted investment.
Advisory and Implementation Support: - Serve as a senior manufacturing and industrial-base advisor to the BOND team for assigned PAE and weapon-system priorities.
- Integrate manufacturing findings with supplier, schedule, cost, investment, engineering, acquisition, and program data to develop executable recommendations.
- Develop recovery actions, implementation roadmaps, owners, milestones, performance measures, risk indicators, and escalation criteria.
- Prepare and present executive briefings, industrial assessments, alternatives analyses, issue papers, site-visit findings, and decision memoranda to PAEs and senior DASN DIB leaders.
Requirements: - Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in engineering, manufacturing, industrial technology, operations management, supply chain, business, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years' experience in defense manufacturing, production operations, industrial-base analysis, supplier management, engineering, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience assessing manufacturing capability, capacity, production flow, quality, schedule, and root causes of performance shortfalls.
- Experience evaluating prime contractor or supplier operations and developing practical recovery, capacity, investment, or process-improvement recommendations.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing measures such as capacity, throughput, cycle time, work in process, yield, utilization, downtime, quality, and delivery performance.
- Experience leading cross-functional analysis and communicating technical and operational findings to senior Government and industry leaders.
- Active Top Secret Clearance required.
Benefits: - Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
- ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
- Company Paid Short-Term Disability
- Voluntary Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Education, Training & Professional Development
- Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
- Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.
- If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you'll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.
- If this position is listed as onsite, you'll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.
