COLUMBIA S1B Ship Design Program Representative

Overview

The COLUMBIA Program is Electric Boat's most important program and the successful candidate can be part of the team that leads it! The COLUMBIA S1B Program needs exceptional people that can drive design and engineering to be focused on cost and schedule while maintaining a safe, quality focused program management environment.

In the S1B Program Office, the successful candidate will be responsible for management oversight of the COLUMBIA S1B Design Program. The successful candidates will communicate with contract leads, technical leads, engineering disciplines, design supervision, program finance, purchasing leads, Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and NAVSEA as needed to support and manage selected aspects of the program. This may include managing program funding, oversight of annual program work planning and estimate processes, oversight of technical work, management of the program schedule, and coordinating responses to emergent design issues. These roles require an understanding of government contracts, project management, and Earned Value Management (EVM) metrics. Frequent communication with NNL and NAVSEA stakeholders and program management is required.

Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:

S1B Design Program Office POC for tactical PO 145185 administration and performance

Understand and make key decisions to manage schedules, programmatic budgets, priority, need dates, and drive engineering/design to issue technical products on time and under budget

Manage/coordinate responses to emergent program specific design issues and drive the team to a timely solution

Frequent communication with NNL and NAVSEA stakeholders and program management

Review of engineering statements of work for purchase order compliance

Work with Construction Span Reduction Stakeholders to facilitate PO 145185 source of funding authorizations when applicable

Work with Planning to manage the program Artemis schedule together with Finance

Coordinate and manage the program manpower plan with Finance

Prepare reports and presentations for Program Reviews and other customer interactions

Some travel may be required

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering/technical, Finance or Management field

Active DOD Secret Clearance OR the ability to obtain and maintain clearance

Two years of relevant program management experience

Preferred:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Detailed knowledge and experience working with Government contracts

Strong background and experience working with both technical and business departments such as Engineering, Legal, Purchasing, Contracts, Finance, and Materials Management

EB program, commercial and or Government component development contract experience or similar external experience

Skills

Self-starter capable of prioritizing work and managing time with limited supervision

Exhibit strong planning, problem solving, and strong verbal and written communications skills

Manage multiple small projects simultaneously

Proficiency in Microsoft Office products

Ability to manage data and create reports from various data systems

Ability to communicate across multiple EB organizations and stakeholders

Working knowledge of manpower schedules, phasing files, and EVM metrics