Leidos has an immediate opening for a Lead Control Account Manager (CAM) to support our Hypersonic Portfolio of programs within the Aerospace Systems Business Area of the Leidos Defense Systems Sector. In this role, you will have management oversight for the scope, cost, and schedule goals on the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (CHGB) program. The CAM will work on-site at the Leidos Hypersonic Integration facility out of the Mid-City office in Huntsville. The lead CAM will serve in a business operations role with oversight across all control accounts ensuring successful monitoring and control of the performance measurement baseline.  In addition, the lead CAM will establish processes, procedures, and body of knowledge for the CAM function.

The Lead CAM position will be an integral part of the larger enterprise-wide Leidos Corporate Earned Value Management (EVM) Center of Excellence (COE), a team-leading and executing the core responsibilities of scheduling, planning, EVMS, the associated infrastructure and tools, implementations, training, and surveillance for Leidos.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead weekly priority calls with fellow CAMs and the EVM support team.
• Participate in monthly risk, issues, and opportunities (RIO) board reviews.
• Attend Technical Interchange Meetings, Change Control Boards, and other meetings to ensure valid input to the EVM system.
• Work with other CAMs to align technical/functional resources to perform work in accordance with Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
• Review staffing needs with all CAMs / functional managers across each control account.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and accurate monthly inputs to the Leidos EVM tool (LENS). This includes changes related to integrated master schedule (IMS) status, baseline change requests (BCRs), estimate to complete (ETC) updates, and variance analysis reporting (VAR).
• Responsible for developing and coordinating corrective action plans with fellow CAMs.
• Analyze Estimate at Complete (EAC) realism and provide feedback to CAMs.
• Provide continuous review and analysis of the program performance data at the work package (WP) and control account (CA) level
• As necessary, provide inputs to the scheduling team on task logic and schedule risk estimates to accomplish schedule risk analysis (SRA) output and associated schedule margin.
• Work with contracts to ensure contract modifications are captured within the total contract value and disseminated to the contract budget base.
• Review weekly labor reports to validate charging accuracy and adjustments needed to the EAC.
• Participate in the proposal process by providing task estimates and substantiate with quantifiable backup data (QBD).
• Work with fellow CAMs on discussions of scope definition, WBS formation, and the follow-on decomposition of CAs and WPs to identify discrete, deliverable-oriented tasking.
• Work with fellow CAMs to identify the appropriate earning standards or Earned Value Technique (EVT). Where necessary, ensure offline QBD are suitable and maintained in accordance with the Leidos corporate Earned Value Management System Description (EVMSD).
• Partner with finance team to review funding limitations, open commitments, fee adjustments, and sales targets.
• Review, approve, and disseminate work authorizations through the program lifecycle and baseline control process.
• Work to influence functional team leaders regarding solution design, process and/or approaches.
• Work to develop corporate CAM processes and procedures.
• Lead CAM development workshops on a recurring basis.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience, including experience in Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of using tools like Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, ERP, EVM Software (Deltek Cobra, EVMS forProject, OPDEC IPM), SSI tools.
• Prior success with managing multiple priorities and meeting strict business calendar due dates to maintain EVMS deliverables.
• Experience with developing and/or providing integrated master schedule (IMS) development and critical path management (CPM).
• Experience with development of Estimate to Complete (ETC) and Estimate at Complete (EAC).
• Experience with implementing and maintaining baseline change control processes.
• Experience with leading monthly schedule status processes.
• Experience with participating in IBR events.
• US Citizenship required and must be able to obtain and maintain at least a Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Earned Value Profession (EVP) certification
• Has prior experience with engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and testing
• Power BI experience

Original Posting Date:

2025-02-20

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $112,450.00 - $203,275.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.