Program Director - Military Veterans

Amentum is seeking a Program Director to manage and coordinate the delivery of large-scale naval ship and systems engineering, maintenance, sustainment, and modernization capabilities to numerous allied navies. The Program Director will directly support the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) International Fleet Support Program Office (PMS 326) to deliver life-cycle support and other follow-on technical solutions (FOTS) and services to eligible allied international naval forces. Competitive Compensation is between $200k-$215k per annum.

The Program Director will support overall operation of the program/contract including ensuring the safety and well-being of its employees, safeguarding company funds and property, and representing the company with respect to the PMS 326 client. The Program Director oversees a large global workforce to ensure Amentum delivers quality services to all PMS 326 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. The Program Director ensures that established company goals are realized while maintaining client relations that will enhance future business and has total responsibility for managing all aspects of the contract.  The Program Director interacts with Amentum operations support offices, vendors, subcontractors and customer representatives as required and will develop close working relationships with various business leaders/stakeholders throughout the organization.

Essential responsibilities and daily duties include:

- Manage Regional Program Managers, budgets, customer relationships, and key performance indicators.
- Respond to Delivery Order (DO) request for proposals, develop technical and cost responses IAW with statements of work, submit proposal responses within required timelines, track and execute tasking to USG approved estimates.
- Identify potential project problems or opportunities, analyze the issues using all appropriate resources, develop alternatives, and arrive at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities.
- Ensure development and adherence to the project work breakdown structure, asset management, and workflow management elements.
- Expand the project execution plan for subsequent phases (project initiation, project execution, construction, etc.). Communicate and coordinate the implementation of the enhancements with the project team.
- Establish, track, and report status against key performance indicators or contractual metrics on a routine basis.
- Demonstrate command of the schedule goals, key milestones and approach to the work embodied in the schedule.
- Ensure that a firm scope-based schedule baseline is established and properly resourced. Manage performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans.
- Review, report, and manage key performance measures defined within the contract. Implements corrective measures when measures are outside service levels or bandwidths.
- Manage performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans.
- Establish annual operating budgets in cooperation with customer, business manager, or group financial department.
- Provide accurate monthly forecasts of cost, schedule, and resource utilization.
- Work with Business Development (BD) to increase scope of services on existing contract.
- Support BD and group management in contract negotiations with customers.
- Support or conduct formal presentations to clients and/or management.