Program Manager New Ship Design Job Washington area,District of Columbia USA,Engineering

Program Manager New Ship Design

As the Program Manager New Ship Design you will have the following duties:

Responsible for overseeing the technology development, design and construction of new design nuclear propulsion plants for the Navy's next generation strategic deterrent COLUMBIA Class and the Navy's next generation attack submarine, SSN(X) design. This encompasses all aspects of nuclear propulsion plant design including construction, testing and acceptance, safe and reliable operations and maintenance and repairs of these plants.

Coordinates, plans, reviews and analyzes all aspects of the design effort including preparation of technical requirements, schedules and budgets.

Serves as a principal advisor to the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors, on policy issues affecting major program planning, budget and priority objectives. Advises on a wide variety of important complex and difficult problems affecting new design nuclear powered ships.

Represents the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors on day-to-day issues and in meetings with top level Navy, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, General Accounting Office, Office of Management and Budget, Congressional and industry officials on matters associated with new design submarine nuclear propulsion plants.

Provides overall program direction to Naval Reactors senior management and staff and to senior management at private and naval shipyards and Naval Reactors laboratories and procurement prime contractors for achieving program goals.

Coordinates the efforts of the numerous vendors and contractor design groups in the program to ensure that sources of supply of highly specialized equipment are developed, safety and quality are maintained at each plant, and a well-coordinated system exists which provides for a timely flow of design data and components to shipyards.