Program Manager - Contingent

About the role

The Program Manager plays a strategically key role in the success of the contract. This is an on-site role - remote work is not available.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate, and control all aspects of a multi-disciplinary technical services support program in support of NUWC Division Keyport in Keyport, Washington.
• Provide overall program management oversight to ensure contract work is properly planned, staffed, executed, monitored, reported, and adjusted to meet technical, schedule, budget, quality, safety, security, and compliance requirements.
• Serve as the primary management point of contact for day-to-day program execution and coordination across assigned functional areas.
• Coordinate contractor personnel, functional leads, and subcontractor support; monitor workforce performance; support resource planning; manage deliverables and recurring reporting; track cost, schedule, funding, and labor-hour performance; resolve issues; and maintain effective communication with customer and corporate stakeholders.
• Manage diverse technical service teams in a government contracting environment, including performance under cost-type and level-of-effort contract structures.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, project management, engineering, facilities management, environmental/safety management, security management, or a related field preferred. Additional directly relevant program management experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements, subject to company and customer approval.
• Experience: Minimum of five years of experience leading and managing multi-disciplinary technical or services support teams. Experience must include managing personnel, resources, schedules, budgets, labor-hour performance, reporting, deliverables, subcontractor coordination, and customer communication in a government contracting environment. Experience managing cost-type, level-of-effort, or similar government contract structures is required. Experience supporting Department of Defense, Navy, test and evaluation, technical services, industrial support, range operations, logistics, or similar mission-support environments is preferred.
• Licenses, Certifications, or Registrations: Project Management or Lean Principles certification preferred. Examples may include PMP, CAPM, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent project/program management training.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of program management principles, workforce planning, resource management, cost/schedule control, labor-hour tracking, performance monitoring, subcontractor coordination, deliverable management, and customer communication.
• Ability to manage diverse technical and support teams across functional areas such as range operations and system testing support, environmental and failure analysis testing support, industrial support, technical documentation, training support, logistics support, and common program support activities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare reports, correspondence, briefings, meeting inputs, status updates, corrective action information, and management documentation.
• Ability to review reports, activity records, labor utilization data, funding status, and performance information; identify trends, issues, or risks; recommend corrective actions; and adjust methods or procedures to meet program objectives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, email, electronic file management, and standard business systems used for reporting, tracking, financial/labor-hour monitoring, and program administration.