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The SAAM Group is seeking a Senior Program Manager with an engineering background to manage a portfolio of programs focused on modeling and simulation as well as autonomy development. You will manage multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, scientists, and engineers spread across multiple STR campuses to meet cost, schedule, and performance objectives on innovative, complex, and challenging national security programs. Your areas of specific focus will include building and executing programmatic baselines, including personnel, deliverables, and subcontractor management plans while anticipating risks, resolving resource, security, and contracting challenges, and meeting or managing customer, sponsor, and leadership expectations.
Job Responsibility:
Effectively execute multiple programs ensuring cost, schedule and technical program metrics are being tracked and within plan
Support proposals by providing expertise in proposal development while ensuring adherence to a gated capture process
Creating Subcontractor statements of work and manage/track Subcontractors to ensure proper execution
Work with lead engineers to lead multi-functional teams
Provide regular program briefs to Group and Division Leadership
Create and maintaining an environment that fosters collaboration by giving clear direction and constructive feedback to the team
Monitor progress against goals: anticipate risks, resolve issues, and initiate corrective actions as appropriate
Identify and address security classification constraints
Requirements:
Active Security Clearance at the Secret level and the ability to obtain Top-Secret Clearance, for which U.S citizenship is needed by the U.S government
Technical Undergraduate Degree and minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience in Government contracting or research and development
Program Manager, Control Account Manager, or Subcontracts Manager experience in a design and development and/or build contract including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) definition, schedule generation, financial analysis/reporting, and resource management
Experience in Proposal Management including planning and cost estimation
Experience understanding challenges and constraints of working within security classification environments
Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
Successful experience in leading and managing multi-discipline teams
Strong presentation and organizational skills
Nice to have:
Active Top-Secret security clearance
Experience with advanced RF or EO/IR system concepts, operational and systems analysis, multi-dimensional signal processing, and multi-function apertures
Experience evaluating the impact of system capabilities on operational scenarios
Experience managing projects larger than $5M for the Department of Defense
Risk and Opportunity Management experience
Experience managing Research and Development programs
Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint