Program Manager

Travel Requirement: As needed up to 50%

Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance required

Sherpa 6 is seeking a Senior Program Manager to support our customer in Ft. Belvoir VA. The successful candidate must demonstrate abilities to manage technical program aspects care for personnel perform schedule and cost reporting meet or exceed contract requirements and provide regular briefings to the customer and other government entities; including but not limited to program management reviews contract transition and technical meetings. This role requires senior experience with managing customer contracts in a DoW environment. The Senior PM will also be responsible for regular customer interactions technical evaluation of requirements management of awarded scope allocation of resources and growth of assigned business. Responsibilities include program transition execution planning budgeting development of risk and opportunity plans and program expansion. The establishment and ongoing review of metrics tasks and processes to meet customer needs. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement.

The PM is responsible for all activities to include support administration and all tasks associated with the management of the overall system support services effort. The PM will conduct a program review of all PWS tasks at a minimum semi-annually with the PEO SDA COR and other invitees at locations (if not virtual) TBD. The PM is the Contractors on-site representative liaison and primary point of interface with Contractor personnel as well as with the Government Technical Representative and COR. The PM or his/her designated representative will monitor personnel workload address performance concerns immediately inform the COR when a change in Contractor personnel occurs or of any vacancies upon learning and take action to ensure issues are remedied and open positions are filled by a fully qualified individual in accordance with the SDS.

Responsibilities:

• Leading personnel and sustaining a professional technical and administrative support staff adequate to accomplish defined and anticipated contractual tasks
• Performing contract oversight duties in accordance with the program management plan
• Performing supervisory duties for assigned managers to include training performance reviews and development/maintaining job descriptions
• Ensuring subcontractor performance and assuring compliance with prime contract requirements and pricing schedules
• Preparing cost performance reports as required by contract deliverables CLINs and managing Other Direct Costs to be compliant with various contracts
• Identify and develop approaches to pursue new opportunities to increase business base; manage the program new business pipeline
• Work with customers and the PMO to develop program strategic plans for the associated customer sites maintain a strong customer relationship.
• Manage the program to ensure appropriate assignment of work tasks responsibilities and authority level
• Ensure operating policies and procedures are established and followed consistent with internal policies
• Plan and de-conflict resource requirements
• Implement a proactive program risk and opportunity management plan
• Define program staffing requirements and execute plan
• Represent the program at an executive level to customers and government representatives
• Develop and expand a highly skilled staff and improve our core competencies
• Practice and instill continued use of Continual Service Improvement (CSI)/ Six Sigma practices to improve program performance customer perception teammate partnerships and business and personnel growth
• Create and maintain a One Team culture across multiple sites

• 810 years of Program Management experience supporting Department of War contracts.
• Strong financial acumen including revenue forecasting labor planning and program have industry management experience responsible for all aspects of program execution.
• Engineering background preferred or similar
• Experience successfully performing the PM related functions for contracts in excess of $10M per year including cost-plus fixed fee experience
• Extensive knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS)
• Experience in preparing budgets schedules staffing to manage support to programs
• Experience managing a contract risk management program
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively interact with subordinates and customers
• Establishment of executable baselines and risk and opportunity management to meet specific financial goals and obligations to the customer
• Must be a US citizen
• Must pass a background check and drug screening

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Business or related technical field (science technology engineering or math).
• Project Manager Professional (PMP) or equivalent DAWIA certification
• Experience operating in a matrixed organization

About Sherpa 6:

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers passionate about what they do love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and were not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harms way.

Background Screening/Check/Investigation:

Successful completion of a background screening/check/investigation will/may be required as a condition of hire.

ADA:

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

EEO/AA:

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race color national origin sex religion age disability sexual orientation gender identity veteran status height weight or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefits package covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental vision health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

Salary Range

The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations years of experience and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location prior experience relevant skills education and certifications.