Position Description & QualificationsSerco is looking for a LPD/LHA Post-Delivery Test Manager that will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and reporting the execution of post-delivery test and inspection activities for LPD/LHA platforms. The Test Manager will serve as the primary point of coordination for test evidence and Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) generated by the Execution Yard, ensuring that required test documentation is complete, accurate, traceable, and maintained in accordance with the approved Test and Inspection Plan.
This position will provide management visibility into the status of post-delivery testing, identify schedule and documentation risks, and ensure test events are properly executed and documented prior to completion and acceptance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage all Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) generated by the Execution Yard in support of post-delivery testing and inspections.
- Establish and maintain an organized, traceable system for collecting, reviewing, tracking, and dispositioning OQE.
- Verify that the Test and Inspection Plan (TIP) is being properly executed and continuously updated as test and inspection events are completed.
- Monitor test events to ensure required documentation, signatures, approvals, and supporting evidence are captured.
- Review test records for completeness, accuracy, traceability, and compliance with applicable requirements.
- Coordinate with the Execution Yard, ship's force, engineering, quality, program management, and other stakeholders to resolve test documentation issues.
- Identify missing, incomplete, or deficient OQE and coordinate corrective actions to closure.
- Maintain visibility of planned, scheduled, completed, deferred, and failed test events.
- Track open test discrepancies and documentation deficiencies that could affect test completion or post-delivery milestones.
- Develop and provide routine test status metrics to program leadership and stakeholders.
- Provide clear visibility into overall test execution progress, including planned versus completed events and outstanding documentation.
- Support development of recovery plans when testing or documentation falls behind schedule.
- Ensure test records are maintained in accordance with applicable program, contract, quality, and configuration-management requirements.
- Participate in test readiness reviews, test planning meetings, execution meetings, and post-test reviews as required.
- Support audits, assessments, and management reviews by providing accurate and traceable test status and supporting documentation.
- Coordinate turnover of completed test documentation and OQE packages to the appropriate program or customer repositories.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Prior experience supporting LPD/LHA post-delivery testing.
- Navy shipboard or shipyard experience.
- Experience with Objective Quality Evidence and formal test documentation systems.
- Experience developing test status dashboards and management-level metrics.
- Familiarity with Navy acceptance, certification, inspection, and post-delivery processes.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in a production, testing, or quality environment.
- A minimum of a high school diploma.
- An current/active Secret clearance.
- Available for travel 25% of the time.
- Prior experience in a lead or managerial role.
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Pay TransparencyOur Total Rewards package includes competitive pay, performance-based incentives, and benefits that promote well-being and work-life balance-so you can thrive both professionally and personally. Eligible employees also gain access to a wide range of benefits from comprehensive health coverage and health savings accounts to retirement plans, life and disability insurance, and time-off programs that support work-life balance. Program availability may vary based on factors such as contract type, location, hire date, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Salary range: The range for this position can be found at the top of this posting. This range is provided as a general guideline and represents a good faith estimate across all experience levels. Actual base salary will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, the scope of the role, relevant experience, job-related knowledge, education and training, key skills, and geographic market considerations. For roles available in multiple states, the range may vary to reflect differences in local labor markets. In addition to base salary, eligible positions may include other forms of compensation such as annual bonuses or long-term incentive opportunities.Benefits - Comprehensible benefits for full-time employees (part-time employees receive a limited package tailored to their role):
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Robust vacation and sick leave benefits, and flexible work arrangements where permitted by role or contract
- 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages that can be purchased, including pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Employee Assistance Plan
To review all Serco benefits please visit: https://careers.serco-na.com/us/en/about-us.
Serco complies with all applicable state and local leave laws, including providing time off under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act for eligible Colorado residents, in alignment with our policies and benefit plans. The application window for this position is for no more than 60 days. We encourage candidates to apply promptly after the posting date, as the position may close earlier if filled or if the application volume exceeds expectations. Please submit applications exclusively through Serco's external (or internal) career site. If an applicant has any concerns with job posting compliance, please send an email to: [redacted].
