Program Manager

• Serves as the principal advisor and Program Manager for the analysis of major defense corporations executing acquisition programs under DCMA administration.
• Conducts integrated analyses of major acquisition programs, examining the interrelationships between contracting, earned value, manufacturing, production, quality, supply chain, engineering, and business systems.
• Acts as the primary DCMA source for situational awareness, key insights, and early identification of risks and issues affecting performance of major defense corporations.
• Functions as the senior staff corporate integrator and principal technical advisor on corporate analysis and assessment for assigned major defense corporations.
• Coordinates corporate assessments by synthesizing multi-source performance, risk, and contractor data across the enterprise to map supply chains, evaluate program trends, and develop effectiveness metrics.
• Provides advice on policies and recommends strategic actions to mitigate risks affecting corporate performance and major acquisition program execution.

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access.
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

To qualify for a Program Manager position, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including, time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Providing integrated technical guidance and assistance to a wide range of major and non-major acquisition programs and products/platforms which may also include cost, production/manufacturing, supply chain, quality, earned value and industrial base issues.
• Designing, developing, installing, and executing management information systems to task, monitor, report and proactively resolve issues and evaluate effectiveness and trends for assigned products, platforms, programs.
• Serving as central focal point for strategic supplier-audits and joint lean/process improvement initiatives for assigned commodities.
• Formulating plans, policies and strategies to achieve HQ, EA&M and Corporate Assessment objectives and to support customer identified outcomes related to platform or program requirements.
• Analyzing corporations to include quality and production, supply chain, engineering, earned value, risk management, financial and business systems and their interrelationship to program performance.
• Facilitating supply chain mapping and integrating supply chain information related to specific commodity/product.

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

• Flexible
• Exempt
• No

• Selectee may be required to serve a trial/probationary period.

• Position requires DoD Acquisition a Program Management, Advanced certification within required timeframes. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years. Click for more details and .