Program Manager

Program Manager

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! 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.

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.

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 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.

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Preferred Qualifications :

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