Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day direction and supervision to a team of subordinates, ensuring efficient project progression.
• Offer expert functional guidance to employees, enhancing their performance and projectalcontributions.
• Act as the primary interface between the government customer and the contractor, ensuring clear communication and problem resolution.
• Establish work priorities for subordinates based on government goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with project requirements.
• Perform direct support functional roles as needed, contributing to the project’s overall success.
• Manage and distribute the team’s workload in accordance with established workflows, ensuring timely accomplishment of assigned tasks.
• Provide on-the-job training to new employees, guiding them through established procedures and practices.
• Lead team assessments, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, and implement strategies to enhance performance.
• Communicate clearly with the team regarding assignments, problems to be solved, milestones, and timeframes for completion.
• Assign work based on personnel workload, ability, and assignment priority, offering instruction and assistance on issues as necessary.

Qualification

• Active DoD Secret Clearance.
• A Bachelors degree in a technical or project management field from an accredited college or university or a Masters degree in either of the preceding disciplines may be substituted for one year of work experience.
• A minimum of 10 years experience in Project/Program Management in the acquisition/development/release for DOD platforms. Equivalent industry experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated competency in key areas including written and oral communication, leadership, team management, negotiation, personal organization, and risk management.
• Proven ability to interface effectively with government management and resolve complex problems.
• Experience in establishing work priorities, distributing workloads, and ensuring the timely completion of projects.
• Strong ability to provide effective on-the-job training and guidance to new employees.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, with a track record of leading teams to assess and improve their performance.
• Excellent negotiation skills, with the ability to effectively manage relations between government customers and contractors.
• High level of personal organization and ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Expertise in risk management, with the ability to identify and mitigate potential project risks.