Program Manager

Title:

Program Manager

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Program Summary:

KBR is looking for a motivated, energetic, and established leader with recent experience leading large USAF logistics, maintenance leadership, or sustainment engineering leadership to join our team as a Program Manager.  This is not an entry level Program Manager position.

This position is on Tinker AFB, OK and will require interfacing with government and contractor personnel.

Job Description:

Support the Missile Sustainment Division for the Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) System Program Office (SPO) in managing program activities such as life cycle logistics program planning, proposal pricing, financial management, cost analysis, management techniques, documentation requirements, or network analysis. Candidate must exhibit capability in areas of production of planning documents, preparing and utilizing databases for cost analysis and financial management. Must apply expertise in DOD, Agency, and/or industry standards and engineering requirements, make recommendations to customer for changes to standards and requirements. May be the primary customer contact for assigned area of responsibility.

Roles And Responsibilities:

• Duties include but are not limited to: Workload Management - Must have the ability to plan, organize, and reprioritize work to meet the most challenging deadlines.
• Compile and review budgets against actual performance, previous budget figures, estimated revenue, and other data sources to control budgets and provide for proper financial decisions.
• Aid in developing and implementing strategies to achieve program objectives safely and within agreed time, cost, technical, quality, and other performance criteria.
• Develop plans including budgets and schedules to meet contractual/program requirements for several major portions of a program.
• Support the customer program manager in executing mission as single point of integrative responsibility needed to ensure that everything in the program is managed effectively to ensure a successful outcome.
• Analyze program activities such as acquisition program planning, proposal pricing, financial management, cost analysis, management techniques, documentation requirements, or network analysis.
• Develop acquisition strategies/plans and other statutory/regulatory documentation (writing, editing, cross-walking, and compliance checking), briefings and white papers supporting acquisition decisions at each of the milestones.
• Participates in the control of costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.
• Perform analyses and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines.
• Participate in the preparation of budgets and schedules for all contract work and perform and/or assist in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, and variance analysis.
• Ensures adequate funding availability by maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.
• Incorporate contractual changes into control systems by staying aware of outstanding work against each contract in order to maintain realistic contract cost and schedule baselines.
• Develop plans including budgets and schedules to meet contractual/project requirements for several major portions of a program.
• Provide support to the PM in program progress reviews and other performance reviews. May also assist in creating/briefing higher level executive agency system acquisition or program summary reports.
• Gather and organize information on problems or procedures including present operating procedures.
• Analyze data gathered, develops information and considers all available solutions or alternate methods of proceeding.
• Organize and documents findings of studies and prepares recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures or organizational changes.
• Confer with personnel concerned to assure smooth functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
• May conduct operational effectiveness reviews to ensure functional or project systems are applied as designed, and functioning satisfactorily.
• May develop or update functional or operating manuals outlining established methods of performing work in accordance with organizational policy.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Business, Business Management, Finance, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of four (4) years’ experience in technical planning and implementation, budget development and administration of projects.
• Active security clearance or the ability to obtain a secret security clearance.
• Use of MS Office Suite; specifically MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience with the Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000 series and Air Force Instruction (AFI) 63-101/20-101. 
• Knowledge and experience necessary to manage weapon system specific funding and scheduling using Integrated Budget Documentation and Execution System (IDECS) and Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCaRS).
• Knowledge and experience with developing life cycle logistics strategies to include initiating, reviewing, developing, and implementing activities to accomplish service life extensions and execution of test and evaluation. Knowledge areas include depot and field maintenance and supportability concepts, Performance Work Statements (PWSs), Statements of Work (SOW), Data Items Descriptions (DIDs), test procedures and plans, obsolescence and Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), risk management, and end item delivery and installation.
• Knowledge and experience with acquisition reporting, including updating information in the Monthly Acquisition Report (MAR) accessed via the Project Management Resource Tools (PMRT) system, program management reviews, monthly program and risk reporting, and ad hoc taskings for reporting program status.
• Certified APDP Level II in Program Management, or industry equivalent, within the past five years.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in managing and executing Acquisition Category (ACAT) III acquisition programs or Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) programs.
• Knowledge of Tinker AFB and its mission is a plus.
• Use of MS Project is a plus.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.