Senior Program Manager (Remote)

Leidos Gibbs & Cox, is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States. Since our founding in 1929, 24 classes of combatants and nearly 7,000 vessels have been built to Gibbs & Cox designs. We proudly support military and commercial clients in the U.S. and internationally with all phases of marine design, construction, and lifecycle management. Our passion is solving our customers’ 21st century maritime challenges with quality and integrity.

The U.S. Ship Design (USSD) Platform Solutions Portfolio within the Sea Systems Division (SSD) is seeking a dynamic Senior Program Manager to join the Leidos Gibbs & Cox team to support multidisciplined team with multiple ship design programs. The scope of the business activities within this portfolio includes: Partial and total ship engineering and design efforts across the entire design life cycle from concept and proposal phase through detail design and construction as well as in service design upgrades for all surface type vessels.

The Senior Program Manager will be responsible for supporting a Director in the leadership, execution, development, growth, and demonstration for a program of record. The Senior Program Manager will be working with a multi-disciplined team of naval architects, mechanical, software, electrical, structural, shock, and systems engineers and designers. Senior Program Manager will be responsible to assist with the planning, executing, and coordinating of one or more programs that may be in different phases of award and design.

The Leidos G&C U.S. Ship Design Group is an industry leader in developing, applying, and advancing the state-of-the-art ship design technologies for U.S. armed forces as well as private industry ship platforms. Leidos Sea Systems are designing the future surface and subsurface fleets for our customers.

Location: this is a fully remote position

Primary Responsibilities

• Managing program(s) profit and loss (P&L), costs, scheduling, quality, and timely delivery.
• Preparing proposals to shipyard and government clients.
• Provides support to a Director for execution of a program or programs with complex engineering and design systems.
• Develop and execute change proposals utilizing established change management process and coordination with G&C engineering and design technical groups.
• Track and manage all schedule, budget, and progress metrics associated with change proposals through coordination with G&C engineering and design technical groups as well as program PMO staff.
• Coordinate and lead daily, weekly, and ad hoc meetings, to include development of agendas, meeting minutes, CDRLs, and action items
• Support U.S. Ship Design Group Portfolio Manager and Assistant Portfolio Manager in business-wide financial and staff planning

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or other related discipline.
• 15+ years total Program Management experience
• 5+ years Project management experience in ship design and ship building programs with U.S. Government end-customers.
• Strong customer focus, ability to support team leadership, and establish strong, collaborative working relationships with customers, technical staff, senior managers, and peers.
• Strong problem-solving skills, along with excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, along with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Has or able to obtain a SECRET clearance, US Citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• A successful background of relevant experience in:

• FFP/T&M/CPFF contract types
• Profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities for programs
• Interacting with customers regarding technical and/or business issues.
• Leading large diverse multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Proposal development experience.

Original Posting Date

2024-12-17

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.

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