PROGRAM MANAGER

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Class Maintenance Plan (CMP) Principal Assistant Program Manager (PAPM) in the Carrier Planning Activity of CARRIER PLANNING ACTIVITY.

The Secretary of Defense has ordered a department-wide hiring freeze subject to certain limited exceptions. This position is subject to the DoD hiring freeze.

Offers of employment related to this vacancy announcement will not be executed until the position has an approved exemption.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 (GS-13 equivalency) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Managing program requirements (i.e., cost, schedule, contracts, performance reporting, logistics, budget) to provide lifecycle maintenance and modernization planning in support of surface ships.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-ADMIN Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will be responsible for overall management and guidance In balancing the many factors required to establish program priorities, milestones and strategic goals within the CMP Department.
• You will oversee the life cycle management of in-service aircraft carriers.
• You will provide advanced planning, integration, and administrative control procedures for execution of carrier life cycle maintenance, availability planning, and modernization programs.
• You will establish work assignments to be accomplished by the employees in the program, setting priorities, preparing schedules for work completion, and ensuring the timely performance of satisfactory work efforts.
• You will be responsible for platform engineering management to include change management and class-specific expertise in Aircraft Carriers, and Modernization Integration of work at the platform level.
• You will develop approaches for the performance of availability duration schedule risk analysis and make changes as needed.
• You will develop long-range strategic plans to support program administration, evaluating and redefining goals and objectives.
• You will manage life cycle assessment requirements and makes recommendation to the Technical Warrant Holder (TWH) to add, update, or modify requirements determined to maintain the ship over the life cycle.
• You will apply management and business principles to analyze situations, identify problems, probe causes and select courses of action for managers to pursue.