Program Manager A 1292

Program Manager A
US Citizenship Required - 2 positions

SRNS @ SRS, Aiken, SC  Part-time, 90% remote

RFQ# 1292 / contract: 1 year w 2 option years / Deadline 2/6/2025

SUMMARY: 

• Safety is a primary responsibility in every job. Obtain safety training, obey safety rules, and make safety an integral part of each task. If continuing the job is unsafe or will create a hazardous condition, stop work immediately.

• Manage the process of uncovering and recommending product/business/technology development and its implementation concerning facilities, personnel, and other SRS and DOE Complex initiatives.

• Promote the same broadly at SRS and within the DOE/NNSA complex.

• Provide the implementation and start-up management planning and support for the program initiatives.

• Guide the need for additional technical support requirements.

• Program manage these new program initiatives.

• Provide preliminary legal (NEPA) and financial analysis to support these activities.

• Develop, manage, and consolidate all related budget and documentation requirements to justify and obtain funding for this Program and to oversee its implementation.

• Develop innovative strategies, plans, and programs for new initiatives.

• Synthesize, evaluate, and structure complex and often disparate technical, operational, and legal business issues.

• Develop and recommend key strategies for SRS, NNSA, and external government organizations supporting Program planning.

• Develop programs, budgets, and manpower requirements to support related strategies and initiatives.

• Develop, plan, and recommend appropriate technical, business, and technology program strategies to SRNS Senior Management, NNSA, and external Organizations.

Job Description/Specific Duties:

• Responsible for supporting the development of the Life Cycle Cost and Schedule Estimates (LCCE) for the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program for the replanned Program. Successful candidates will be part of the program management team developing the Program estimate.

• The candidate will not manage personnel and will not be involved in assigning or assigning tasks. Instead, the candidate will provide documents, presentations, and general support and coordination needed to complete the LCCE deliverable.

• Work with the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) to define the program's scope concisely

• Provide input to NNSA to support the development of Program Requirements documentation, which defines the program scope, inputs, assumptions, and constraints to facilitate consistency in estimate development.

• Document critical assumptions related to program execution and estimate development to ensure the estimate prepared is comprehensive and that assumptions are consistently applied across the DOE complex.

• Develop input documents that describe the program project and execution scope so that Comprehensive, conservative estimates can be developed in conformance with a defined work breakdown structure.

• Assist partner sites across the DOE complex with their task analysis and basis of estimate development to ensure data is prepared consistently to ensure efficient data collection and analysis.

• Troubleshoot the LCCE development process, identify problems, develop, and implement solutions for the LCCE leadership team to manage the LCCE effectively (and, where possible, efficiently) Development process to meet milestone dates and commitments to NNSA.

• Establish program costs, schedules, and technical baselines. Manage the estimate development processes to ensure compliance with GAO best practices for cost and schedule development.

• Initiate and frequently deliver concise and accurate oral and written presentations to internal and external customers regarding program implementation plans, status, changes, and new approaches, including complex technical, organizational, and financial issues.

• Conduct significantly complex analyses of problems involving numerous disciplines.
  Develop new and innovative alternative action strategies enabling the early achievement of
  Milestones.

• Perform risk analyses and provide decision authority for defining and approving corrective actions and establishing priorities. Develop risk mitigation strategies appropriate for identified risks, including scope, cost, schedule, and determination of residual risks.

• Monitor program efforts to ensure LCCE development progress is within schedule, cost, and technical baselines. 

• This will be accomplished by planning and supporting weekly LCCE schedule reviews with a complex-wide group of responsible parties, where schedule activities and statuses are tracked. Action items will be established, and progress will be tracked to closure to ensure cost, schedule, and scope objectives are met or exceeded.

• Lead and/or participate in estimate reviews with SRNS LCCE Program Management Team, partner sites, Division, and NNSA management, including detailed cost, scope, schedule analysis, sensitivity analysis, integration of scope and schedules for work across multiple sites, and uncertainty analysis.

• Review and approve cost, scope, and schedule inputs developed at multiple DOE complex facilities.

• Develop spreadsheets to document and analyze data. Examples of spreadsheets include Demonstrating conformance with all elements of GAO guidelines, including cost-estimating Processes and schedules development processes; summarizing complex data sets to facilitate analysis, team reviews, communication with auditors/independent reviewers/senior management teams, etc.; communication of LCCE data/results in concise, comprehensive reports; etc.

• Support the development of LCCE documents. Responsibilities will include reading and critically reviewing inputs, writing individual elements/sections of documents, coordinating reviews and comment incorporation from complex-wide contributors/section authors of technical documents, interfacing with program leadership teams and NNSA leadership (customer) for document development, reviews, comment incorporation, and approvals.

Qualifications for Program manager A 1292

Please answer how you meet each qualification as if you were being interviewed in person. Many times, they will not interview, so this is your chance to sell yourself. A YES or a NO is not an acceptable answer unless specified. Many of the required qualifications are not posed as questions, but you need to demonstrate how you meet each qualification. Answer each clearly and thoroughly. You must meet every required qualification in order to be submitted for this role.

1. Bachelor of Science Degree in technical field (engineering, science, or business management) with minimum 16 years technical experience in program management/nuclear industries or other relevant fields 
   OR,
   Master of Science Degree in technical field (engineering, science, or business management) with minimum 12 years of broad experience in engineering, operations, strategic and business planning or MBA with a technical undergraduate degree with 12 years of experience as described above 10 years of the experience must be in nuclear industries OR in program management in relevant technical industry. Please Answer:

2. Demonstrated experience working in complex environment managing multiple integrated work scopes. Please Answer:

3. Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. Please Answer:

4. Demonstrated analytical ability for technical and programmatic information/documents including ability to organize analytical results and present to senior management recommendations based on that analysis. Please Answer:

5. Nuclear industry experience is preferred to non-nuclear experience. (Preferred) Please Answer:

6. DOE nuclear experience is preferred to commercial nuclear experience.  (Preferred) Please Answer:

7. SRS, Pantex, LANL, or WIPP experience is preferred to other DOE complex experience (scopes of work at these facilities are part of the estimate).  (Preferred) Please Answer:

8. Plutonium processing experience is preferred to other nuclear experience.  (Preferred) Please Answer:

9. GAO compliant Life Cycle Cost Estimate development experience is preferred to other cost or schedule estimating experience.  (Preferred) Please Answer:

10. Management/leadership experience is preferred to individual contributor experience. Higher level/senior management experience is preferred to lower level.  (Preferred) Please Answer:

11. Experience with program baseline development, baseline control, variance reporting and change control processes is preferred. Earned value management system familiarity/proficiency meets these criteria.  (Preferred) Please Answer:

12. Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance. Please Answer:

13. Provide your preferred phone number and email address. Please Answer:

14. US Citizenship is required.  Are you a US Citizen? Please Answer: