Salary
💰 $86,539 - $140,625 per year
About the role
- Provide support in the areas of Missile production, systems engineering and finance
- Maintain cognizance over missile production issues, risks, materials, and processes
- Assist the Production Director in maintaining technical oversight over missile production
- Assist in formulation of risk mitigations and identify potential gaps and shortfalls in meeting production requirements
- Coordinate with acquisition and financial team to assist with the preparation of budget documents, congressional briefing material, and adjudicating budget marks
- Coordinate with Assistant Program Managers in preparation and maintenance of missile spend-plans and forecasted work requirements to support source-funding
- Work with the missile OEM to understand technical and budget issues impacting missile production and coordinate support activities to meet production requirements
- Analyze requirements, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluations, plans & procedures, support data collection and analysis, and report status and results
- Support missile Test & Evaluation activities including requirements analysis, test scenario development, test resource planning, test planning and execution, and post-test performance assessment analysis
- Support and coordinate program office efforts related to integration of new production missiles into new and existing ship classes and combat systems
- Provide meeting support such as developing agendas, slides, and meeting minutes for production meetings; assist with technical and acquisition documentation and/or briefing development, review, and comment adjudication
- Use Microsoft Office skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) and learn other programs as needed
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Active DoD Secret security clearance (must maintain and transfer)
- U.S Citizenship required
- A Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Defense Acquisition, Naval Weapon Systems, Acquisition program office, or related industry experience OR a Masters Degree with minimum 3 years of experience in those areas
- Excellent organizational, internal team communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite programs (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project)
- Experience with MS Office 365 collaborative tools such as SharePoint and Teams
- Familiarity with data visualization tools
- Ability to travel 25%
- Willingness to learn other programs as needed
- Additional desired: Bachelor's degree in a technical or STEM discipline
- Additional desired: TS Clearance eligibility or prior TS Clearance
- Additional desired: Experience in Naval missile systems and Naval System production
- Experience with defense acquisition production management, systems engineering, test & evaluation, budgeting, and working with OEMs