Program Manager - Lead Launch Enterprise
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Program Manager - Lead Launch EnterpriseBelong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!
KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.
Why Join Us?
Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
Key Responsibilities:
Provides overall direction and management of a multi-million-dollar SETA contract
Promotes teamwork across multiple contractors, industry partners, relationships/interfaces, and Government teams to achieve common mission goals
Manages the required services, including OCI requirements, and reports technical and financial status and resource allocation to meet changing mission objectives, schedules, Government priorities and expectations
Provides and sustains a workforce through highly qualified staffing, effective contract and subcontract management, effective implementation of cost efficiencies and responsiveness to Government priorities
Provides the Mission Director with an Independent Risk Assessment of launch readiness, including integrated LV/SV team performance during Day of Launch exercises.
Provides the MD and the Space Vehicle Program Director (SVPD) with a summary assessment of their team’s readiness for launch
Provides insights into SV issues that may affect the LV/SV interface or LV hardware
Supports New Entrant and other OSL program initiatives
Facilitates launch collaboration activities between NASA, SSC, and the OSL organization
Generate lessons learned that can be shared across the various mission teams
Accountable for various Non-Disclosure Agreements required to execute OSL’s mission
Works to preclude Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) and Personal Conflict of Interest (PCI) among the SETA contract team
Receives risk assessments and risk management recommendations from the mission team and, in turn, recommends way ahead to the Mission Director
Crafts transition milestone schedule, management plan, and staffing plan for the SETA contract
Work Environment:
Location: On-Site
Travel Requirements: Moderate (25% of the time)
Working Hours: Standard; with the exception of when support is required for launch activities
Qualifications Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Engineering, Math, or related discipline
TS/SCI with polygraph; ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) eligibility and accesses
10 years of space launch experience
5 years of Government space acquisition experience
Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with various Government agencies and mission partners
Substantive experience providing risk assessments and risk-management recommendations to the Government in support of successful mission accomplishment
Delivers effective briefings/presentations/papers on complex topics for audiences that may be large and/or include high-level decision makers
Ability to prioritize competing requirements and tasks; also capable of managing long-term tasks, as well as short-term obligations
Ability to effectively provide guidance to junior team members
Ability to develop trusted relationships with Government leaders and with mission partners
Self-starter with effective time management skills
Strong attention to detail, exceptional organizational and communication skills, effective and clear written (and oral) communication ability, strategic thinking, and interpersonal skills
Desired:
Master’s degree with over 8 years or more of applicable space launch experience
Demonstrated ability to adapt and flex to the execution of multiple mission sets across a diverse set of programs and tasks
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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