Program Manager

Overview

SCCI is seeking a skilled Program Manager to lead a team of engineers for a Systems Engineering contract supporting future work expected in 2028. The position is located in Dahlgren, VA.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) tracking mechanism.
• Perform programmatic cost‑performance analyses, integrate EVMS data elements, and generate monthly Cost Performance Reports.
• Provide acquisition planning support, including procurement entry within the Integrated Budget Planning & Execution System (IBPES) or related applications.
• Execute seamless technical program management control, maintain integrated master schedules, and manage administrative baselines to ensure programmatic schedules, technical review milestones, and operational statuses are accurate, current, and aligned with mission plans.
• Deliver strategic engineering project management life‑cycle support, cost estimation, risk monitoring, and configuration analysis to ensure systemic upgrades and weapon system alterations are executed within plan tolerances.
• Build, process, and maintain performance execution metrics and project tracking tools to track resource profiles, schedule variances, and spend plans.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen with an active Secret Security Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in engineering, scientific, business, or technical discipline, plus ten (10) years of demonstrated knowledge base and subject‑matter expertise; or fifteen (15) years of relevant experience specific to the technical disciplines of the statement of work.
• Ten (10) years of professional research, systems engineering, design, and development experience with combat, weapon, and/or fire control systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing large projects, acting as primary point of contact for contractor tasking, formulating and directing technical approaches, and establishing and controlling technical milestones, schedules, and costs.
• Five (5) years of concurrent experience as a Program Manager for a contract comparable in scope and size, supporting engineering and development of a DoD enterprise software, major strategic, combat, weapon, or fire control systems program.
• Experience monitoring tasks in accordance with EVMS plans and an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Two weeks of paid vacation.
• 48 hours of sick/personal leave.
• Eleven paid holidays.