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United States , El Segundo

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85000.00 - 125000.00 USD / Year
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Acquisition and Program Management Support with ten to twenty years of experience with Department of Defense (DoD) or DOD Systems. Baccalaureate degree is required and must have demonstrated understanding of current program management processes and systems.

Job Responsibility:

  • Ability to work independently or monitored by senior employees to ensure compliance with proper procedures (Program Office Support interface)
  • Resolve unique or novel problems, conditions, or issues
  • Significantly alter standard practices, equipment, devices, processes, and known techniques
  • Provide expert advice to professional colleagues and/or agency officials responsible for broad program operations
  • Provide significant and innovative recommendations for advancing programs and/or methods
  • Execute significant projects representing an important segment of the agency’s operating programs
  • Exercise judgment and ingenuity in evaluating the value and applicability of new or improved technology, strategies, trends, or applications
  • Investigating, predicting, and anticipating issues and conditions extending beyond a single specialty area, and affecting known standards, approaches, precedents, or concepts
  • Developing or collaborating in the formation of new standards, applications, concepts, or theories
  • Assessing and carrying out strategies and actions to reconcile or resolve novel, conflicting, or controversial issues or policies
  • Support activities that assist the program manager in assessing what programs are within schedule and cost baselines
  • Recommend viable solutions to problems and the pursuit of alternative courses of action
  • Effectively communicate verbally and in writing, providing quality acquisition and program documentation (briefings, documents, plans, etc.)
  • Plan, research, analyze, and assess system acquisition in terms of development, production, and deployment of weapons systems and associated equipment
  • formulate plans and recommend effective strategies in meeting cost, schedule and performance objectives
  • Support program management reviews, senior level meeting/reviews and develop various briefings/schedules of program status and acquisition tasks to senior management
  • Create and maintain risk documentation for program manager’s portfolio
  • Effectively coordinate regular and ad hoc meetings, test events, and deployments involving multiple organizations from disparate locations
  • Write requirements for Performance Work Statements (PWS), accomplish technical evaluations, and write incentive fee plans

Requirements:

  • BA/BS with 10-20 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed
  • Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative techniques for gathering, analyzing, and measuring the effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of acquisition programs
  • Comprehensive knowledge of principles, policies and practices of systems acquisition and program management as well as knowledge of roles and relationships of DoD, Air Force and the US Space Force
  • Knowledge and ability to perform tasks related to the technical/professional discipline they are performing
  • In-depth knowledge and skill in applying engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods sufficient to extend or modify theories, concepts, and assumptions
  • Ability to thrive in both acquisition and high tempo operational atmospheres
  • Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the contract acquisition process
  • U.S. Citizenship with Secret security clearance or higher is required
  • Bachelor's degree required, preferably in math, engineering, business, or the sciences
What we offer:
  • Major Medical Insurance for employees and family members
  • Dental Insurance for employees and family members
  • Vision Insurance for employees (employee-paid for family members)
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
  • Travel Accident Insurance
  • Long-Term Disability
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Supplemental Life Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (pre-tax deferrals for health care expenses)
  • Money Purchase Pension Plan - 100% Company funded defined contribution retirement plan
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan - 100% Company funded discretionary contribution
  • Annual Leave
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Holidays
  • Jury Duty/Witness Leave
  • Military Leave
  • Sick Leave

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Job Posted:
May 04, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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