PROGRAM MANAGER

PROGRAM MANAGER

Department: Department of the Navy

Location(s): Dahlgren, Virginia

Salary Range: $142488 - $195200 Per Year

Job Summary: You will serve as a PROGRAM MANAGER in the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Field Activity of AEGIS BMD. The Secretary of Defense has ordered a department-wide hiring freeze subject to certain limited exceptions. Offers of employment related to this vacancy announcement will not be executed until the position has an approved exemption.

Major Duties:

• You will be responsible for daily management of the technical and acquisition efforts across a spectrum of development and engineering.
• You will develop and execute the strategy and necessary plans, procedures, and other documents required for technical development of the program within Aegis BMD.
• You will develop out year acquisition strategies, including contract types, fees and evaluation criteria, formal technical documentation and prepare presentations to support program advocacy and major milestone decisions in Department of Defense/War.
• You will prepare and defend budgets to higher authority; define and manage task planning foreach development phase, integrating associated Navy center/laboratory, support contractor and prime contractor efforts.
• You will direct execution and coordination of tasks in-process, review progress, resolve technical problems, and upon approval redirect efforts within cost and schedule constraints.
• You will manage engineering requirements and approach for the BMD modifications covering specification development, reliability, maintainability, safety, training, integrated logistics, configuration and data management.
• You will provide for transition to production with consideration for producibility, life cycle/unit cost, reliability, logistics, maintainability, safety, configuration and data management.
• You will develop innovative and path finding concepts or procedures requiring imaginative approaches to problems not normally solved by conventional methods.
• You will execute/evaluate programmatic issues, involving risk, cost, schedule and performance.
• You will develop, motivate, and train a comprehensive, diverse workforce to meet current and anticipated program management goals and requirements; implement employee education, training requirements, and expectations.
• You will ensure that employees are appropriately empowered and accountable for assigned work and be provided with professional and personal challenges that will enable them to grow in technical knowledge, responsibility, authority, and team building.
• You will assess the health of the program’s technical capability and capacity, analyze the long-term workload plans and expectations, develop and maintain the staffing plan, and recommend strategic workforce development initiatives.

Qualifications: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower pay band, NH-03 (GS-13 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Working in a multi-functional Weapons Systems Office performing complex and multi-faceted activities which provide direct support to the Command improving efficiency and effectiveness in Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and other operations. 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.

How to Apply: Click the Apply Online button to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes: 1. Complete resume with relevant experience, job title, duties and accomplishments. Resumes are restricted to no more than 2 pages. Illegible/unreadable resumes will not be considered. Your resume must show complete information for each job entry to support minimum qualifications. The following information should be provided in your resume, but it is acceptable to provide elsewhere in your application package: employer's name, starting and end dates (Mo/Yr), hours per week if experience was less than full time (35-40 hours per week), pay plan, series and grade level (e.g. GS-0201-09) for relevant federal experience. TIP: A good way to ensure you include all essential information is to use the Resume Builder in USAJOBS to create your resume. 2. Supporting documentation Failure to submit a complete application package will result in an ineligible rating and loss of consideration. Your complete application must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 12/30/2025. Applications received after 12/30/2025 will generally result in an ineligible rating and loss of consideration. If more than one resume is received, only the last resume received and processed will be reviewed. Note: To check the status of your application or return to a previous or incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account: https://mydon.usajobs.gov/Account/Login select Application Status, and click on the more information link under the application status for this position. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process so please plan appropriately. You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. Do not email or send hard copy resumes/applications to the Contact Information or Agency Information listed in this vacancy announcement. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement. It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that all information in their resume and documents are legible and accurate. HR will not modify answers/documents submitted by an applicant.

Application Deadline: 2025-12-30