Program Manager - Fort Rucker Aviation Maintenance Services (FRAM II)

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the FRAM II Capture Manager to shape the overall Program Management, Execution Approach, and technical volumes, ensuring alignment between proposed technical solutions, staffing models, performance metrics, and long-term contract sustainability.
• Lead development of the Program Management, Organizational Structure, Governance, and Performance Management sections of the proposal.
• Validate that proposed maintenance, supply chain, quality, safety, and subcontractor strategies are operationally executable within cost, schedule, and regulatory constraints.
• Collaborate with the Transition Manager to ensure seamless integration between the Transition Approach and steady-state CLS execution plan.
• Work closely with pricing, contracts, HR, supply chain, IT, property, and platform SMEs to ensure labor ramp profiles, indirect support structures, and management controls are realistic and performance driven.
• Support color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), incorporating evaluator-focused refinements and ensuring compliance with FRAM II PWS and Section L/M requirements.
• Ensure proposed KPIs, aircraft availability metrics, readiness thresholds, safety controls, and reporting structures are measurable, contract-aligned, and executable from Day One.
• Maintain strict traceability between proposal commitments and post-award management processes to minimize performance risk and protect the potential award fee.
• Upon award, ensure rapid conversion of proposal artifacts into executable program management baselines, including staffing plans, governance boards, reporting cadences, and risk registers.

Transition Integration & Governance (Non-Executing Role)

• Collaborate with the FRAM II Transition Manager, providing program-level oversight, coordination, and governance to ensure transition activities align with contractual requirements, Army priorities, and long-term sustainment objectives.
• Participate in transition planning reviews, risk assessments, and Government coordination forums while not serving as the executing authority for transition tasks.
• Ensure transition outputs (personnel, processes, systems, and data) are fully integrated into steady-state program operations at transition completion.
• Serve as a continuity lead to ensure seamless handoff from transition to steady-state execution with no degradation to aviation training operations.

Aircraft Maintenance & Sustainment Operations

• Direct CLS execution for rotary-wing aircraft supporting Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) and advanced aviation training, including: UH-60 Black Hawk, CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache, and UH-72 Lakota (full sustainment prior to and during divestment).
• Ensure aircraft availability, mission capability rates, and training sortie requirements are met or exceeded across all platforms.
• Oversee aircraft launch and recovery operations, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, phase inspections, modifications, corrosion control programs, and back shop component repairs.
• Integrate maintenance and supply operations to minimize aircraft downtime and parts backorders.
• Ensure compliance with all Quality Management System (QMS) program requirements including ISO 900, AS 9110C, and FAA Part 145 requirements.

UH-72 Lakota Sustainment & Divestment Support

• Ensure continued safe, airworthy, and mission-ready maintenance of the UH-72 Lakota fleet until each aircraft is formally released for Government-directed disposition.
• Coordinate UH-72 sustainment activities with divestment timelines to avoid training disruptions or premature capability gaps.
• Maintain configuration control, maintenance records, airworthiness documentation, and compliance throughout the sustainment-through-divestment period.
• Support Government divestment actions by ensuring aircraft are delivered in contractually compliant condition.

Program Leadership & Customer Engagement

• Serve as the primary interface with U.S. Army Contracting Command, AvCOE leadership, and Fort Rucker stakeholders for steady-state contract execution.
• Provide transparent reporting on performance, risk, and mitigation strategies, including Lakota sustainment and divestment impacts.
• Lead Program Management Reviews (PMRs), readiness assessments, and executive-level briefings.
• Active participation in required AvCOE meetings.

Compliance, Safety & Quality

• Ensure compliance with Army aviation regulations (AR 95-1, DA PAMs), OEM technical manuals, and contractual requirements across all platforms.
• Enforce a robust Safety Management System (SMS) and aviation safety culture, particularly during mixed-fleet sustainment and divestment operations.
• Lead quality assurance, internal audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Financial & Subcontractor Management

• Maintain cost, schedule, and performance discipline across all CLINs.
• Manage subcontractors and vendors supporting maintenance, logistics, and supply chain operations.
• Identify efficiencies that reduce lifecycle cost while sustaining readiness and safety.