Senior Program Manager
Description What You’ll Do
As a Senior Program Manager, you’ll have a high level of responsibility for the successful execution of an innovative Navy program, working across operational, technical, staffing, and customer requirements to keep the program moving forward. You’ll also lead a talented team in a collaborative work environment where your experience, judgment, and leadership can make a meaningful difference. This position will be based in our Lexington Park, MD HQ office and will require a full-time on-site presence with the ability for CONUS and OCONUS travel.
Key Responsibilities
Lead overall program execution, including staffing, integrated schedules, funding, risk management, deliverables, and contract requirements.
Monitor program performance, resource utilization, costs, and schedules; identify and resolve issues that could impact contract execution or mission objectives.
Cook up subcontractors, teaming partners, and ASEC personnel to ensure effective execution across program activities.
Translate evolving Government requirements and operational priorities into executable technical, staffing, schedule, and funding plans.
Lead coordination of site surveys, equipment installations, system configuration, testing, training, troubleshooting, and Fleet acceptance activities.
Coordinate shipboard and shore-based network, electrical, cybersecurity, facility, and system integration requirements.
Maintain awareness of system baselines, configuration changes, technical risks, deficiencies, and modernization requirements.
Cook up with ship, air wing, Fleet, depot, engineering, cybersecurity, and program-office stakeholders to support mission requirements.
Represent ASEC in program reviews, technical interchange meetings, cybersecurity working groups, readiness reviews, and other customer engagements.
Provide leadership with timely communication regarding program risks, staffing challenges, security or facility limitations, equipment availability, and changes to Fleet schedules.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in a business or STEM area of study, required. In lieu of a degree, 24 semester hours in Program Management, Accounting, Business Finance, Legal Studies, Contracts, or related fields may be considered.
Demonstrated experience managing complex Navy or DoD technical programs.
Familiarity with cost, schedule, staffing, risk, subcontractor, and technical-performance management.
Familiarity with distributed training, LVC systems, Navy networks, shipboard integration, or training-system deployment.
Willingness to lead geographically dispersed personnel and support CONUS and OCONUS operations.
Equally Important
Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams and with external partners.
Effective communicator with strong verbal and written skills.
Proactive, self-directed work style with the ability to operate independently.
Analytical thinker with proven problem-solving capabilities.
Highly organized, with the ability to balance competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Physical & Schedule Considerations
This position requires periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel, including travel to Navy installations, shipyards, depots, and operational ships.
The employee must be able to access aircraft carriers and other Navy vessels, navigate shipboard spaces, and support operational requirements outside normal business hours.
Schedule flexibility may be required to accommodate Fleet operations, installations, testing, deployments, and emergent technical issues.
Security Clearance Requirement
This position requires U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Top Secret clearance.
Schedule
Selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Salary Range
The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $165,000 - $180,000, commensurate with an individual’s experience, qualifications, and skill set.
About ASEC
ASEC offers meaningful, mission-driven work within a culture that supports your professional and personal growth. We partner with our government customers to deliver innovative solutions across engineering, information technology, training, and logistics.
Additional Information
ASEC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, compensate, and promote employees based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy or related conditions (including breastfeeding), or any other status protected by law.
ASEC also complies with all applicable pay transparency laws and will not discriminate against employees or applicants for inquiring about, discussing, or disclosing compensation.