Washington, DC, 20080, USA
1 day ago
Assistant Program Manager
Amentum is seeking an Assistant Program Manager (APM) to assist with the management and coordination of the delivery of large-scale naval ship and systems engineering, maintenance, sustainment, and modernization capabilities to numerous allied navies. The APM will work with the Program Director and Amentum Team to support the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) International Fleet Support Program Office (PMS 326) to deliver life-cycle support and other follow-on technical solutions (FOTS) and services to eligible allied international naval forces. As the APM, you will support the overall operation of the contract, ensure the safety and well-being of its employees, safeguard the company funds and property, and represent the company with respect to the PMS 326 client. This role is full-time with remote capability. Onsite work will be performed at Amentum's Washington, DC Naval Yard Office. **Compensation & Benefits** Hiring Salary Range: $175,000-195,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data). This position includes a competitive benefits package. For more detailed information on our Benefits and what it is like to work for Amentum: please visit our careers site: www.amentumcareers.com. **Essential responsibilities and daily duties include:** + Manage Delivery Order Teams, budgets, customer relationships, and key performance indicators. + Respond to Delivery Order (DO) request for proposals, develop technical and cost responses IAW with statements of work, submit proposal responses within required timelines, track and execute tasking to USG approved estimates. + Identify potential project problems or opportunities, analyze the issues using all appropriate resources, develop alternatives, and arrive at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities. + Ensure development and adherence to the project work breakdown structure, asset management, and workflow management elements. + Expand the project execution plan for subsequent phases (project initiation, project execution, construction, etc.). Communicate and coordinate the implementation of the enhancements with the project team. + Establish, track, and report status against key performance indicators or contractual metrics on a routine basis. + Demonstrate command of the schedule goals, key milestones and approach to the work embodied in the schedule. + Ensure that a firm scope-based schedule baseline is established and properly resourced. Manage performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans. + Review, report, and manage key performance measures defined within the contract. Implements corrective measures when measures are outside service levels or bandwidths. + Manage performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans. + Establish annual operating budgets in cooperation with customer, business manager, or group financial department. + Provide accurate monthly forecasts of cost, schedule, and resource utilization. + Support or conduct formal presentations to clients and/or management. + Comply with all other Amentum policies and initiatives. **Minimum Requirements:** + Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of increasing engineering management responsibility, including 5 years of USG ship or submarine construction or repair/overhaul experience. + Ability to coordinate complex work and integrated logistics support (ILS) among various stakeholders both internal to Amentum, among our teaming partners, and with the government customer for PMS 326. + Ensure individual country projects are planned, executed, and closed in accordance with sound project management principles and the task order. + Ability to develop and give briefs to multiple levels of stakeholders. + Ensure that all regulations regarding ITAR/EAR are followed. + Liaison with other staff within the PMS 326 contract organization and customer organization to ensure customer has full transparency of all operations. + Ability to work independently and in a team environment. Ability to work onsite (2-3x/week) and remotely. + Ability to travel CONUS to Washington, DC Office and other sites and OCONUS, as needed (25%). Ability to obtain a United States Passport. + Ability to obtain a Secret US government clearance. Note: US citizenship is required to obtain a secret clearance. **Preferred Qualifications** + Foreign Military Sales (FMS) experience. + Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. + In-country recruiting experience, including hiring and maintenance of a local work force. Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters) and Labor Laws Posters (https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/MI5TC2kqOqsOBPMVfnZ32U) .
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