CHGB Tech Insertion Project Manager

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Leidos’ Defense Systems Hypersonics Systems Division is seeking a CHGB Technical Insertion Project Manager to join our team. The Project Manager will be responsible for running point in the program office for the developmental phase of the next iteration of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, assisting the IPT leadership of all program management functions related to the transition to production. The position will have responsibility for planning, tracking, and execution of complex tasking within technical, schedule, and budget constraints.

The program involves new technologies, both structural and electrical, in an early technical and manufacturing maturity. The Project Manager will coordinate heavily with the various design agents as well as our government customers in order to plan out an efficient path to rapidly mature and incorporate new capabilities to the existing system. The program also involves management complexity related to performance by a group of subcontracted team members, interactions with multiple government organization as part of a “badge-less” team, several geographically dispersed places of performance, and a complex multi-agency customer set including Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Navy, and Army.

Provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, hypersonic weapon system solutions, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.

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• Managing the development of a program baseline for implementing a developmental design to a product level of maturity to be rolled into low-rate production
• Close coordination with government and industry partners to manage required handoffs and needs to progress the program forward
• Evaluate and guide daily execution activities in support of the program manager
• Lead team meetings and set expectations for project team
• Routinely evaluate program technical and programmatic metrics to ensure successful execution
• Manage risk and identify opportunities at the IPT level including working with the IPT to develop mitigation strategies and plans to realize opportunities
• Identify capability or process gaps and provide recommendations for improvement
• Actively participate in change management including developing business cases for changes recommended by the IPT, assessing supply chain vulnerability related to contemplated changes and incorporating changes approved by the Change Control Board
• Coordinate program activities across multiple functional activities.
• Foster intra-project coordination and communication
• Aid program manager in mitigating cost, schedule, and technical risks related to materials used on the program
• Plan and execute a hardware centric project
• Creates project plans
• Maintains project objectives
• Define tasks and required resources
• Assist with assembling and managing project team
• Work with program schedulers to maintain schedule
• Oversight of the technical scope under the assigned control accounts
• Oversight of the control account budgets and schedules:
  • Variance analysis (SPI/CPI/TCPI)
  • Schedule analysis (BEI/CEI)
  • BCR submittals
  • Status of work package tasks…