Principal

General Dynamics Electric Boat•Groton, CT

About The Position

The COLUMBIA S1B 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 lead ship and follow ship contract. This will require the candidate to 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 includes 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. Frequent communication with NNL and NAVSEA stakeholders and program management is required.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
Five years relevant experience related to program and/or project management
Active DOD Secret Clearance
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

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance or business
Six or more years of relevant supervision, program management or military experience
Program/Project management experience
Detailed knowledge and experience working with Government and/or Commercial 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

Responsibilities

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
Mentoring junior personnel
Development and implementation of processes/procedure improvements
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
Preparing reports and presentations for Program Reviews and other customer interactions