Subject Matter Expert (SME) Manager I

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, and coordinate operations across multiple departments and geographically distributed locations while formulating strategic policies and managing daily operations
• Provide executive program management for Technical Direction Letters (TDLs) and Task Orders, ensuring seamless integration and execution with no negative impact on cost, schedule, or performance
• Oversee preparation of Technical Direction Management Plans (TDMPs), monthly status reports, quarterly program reviews, and action item tracking
• Manage cost performance and financial systems including eCRAFT Enterprise utilization, funds/man-hours reporting, and WAWF invoice submissions
• Direct personnel management and workforce operations, ensuring security compliance, mandatory training completion within 30 days, and backfilling vacant positions within 30 calendar days
• Serve as single point of authority for Government leadership (KO, COR) while coordinating with ESI Directorate on facilities, security, safety, property transfers, cybersecurity, and material purchasing
• Lead organizational planning and resource allocation including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Government Furnished Property (GFP), material/equipment estimates, and project risk management
• Maintain effective Quality Control (QC) program ensuring services comply with PWS requirements and Government Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) standards
• Coordinate technology transfer programs including CRADAs, Educational Partnership Agreements, and work collaboratively with contractors, Government partners, system primes/OEMs, and industry vendors
• Oversee transition-in and transition-out phases ensuring seamless knowledge transfer, proper GFP maintenance, and no disruption to vital Government business
• Address overall contract management and contracting issues
• Support program operations through subordinate supervisors while addressing overall contract management and contracting issues

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in technical field (Computer, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Operations Research, Physics and all other engineering majors), Environmental Engineering, Architectural, Civil, Meteorology/ Atmospheric Sciences
• 10 years of experience
• 15 years relevant experience in lieu of degree
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Desired Master's Degree or Ph.D. is highly valued
• Experience with Army or DoD modeling and simulation programs
• Familiarity with systems engineering principles and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Experience supporting C5ISR or DEVCOM programs
• Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
• Experience with eCRAFT Enterprise system for cost reporting
• Strong knowledge of cost performance management systems
• Experience with Contractor Manpower Reporting (CMR) requirements
• Experience supporting INDOPACOM or other Combatant Commands