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Program Manager A-1252-SRS-Aiken, SC
Deadline: 11-13-2024(All official documents must be completed and returned before the deadline for candidate consideration.)
Projected Start Date: 12/09/2024
Duration: 1 YEAR with two (2) Year Renewal Options
ONE (1) Position Available!
US Citizenship Required

JOB SUMMARY
Safety is a primary responsibility in each job performed. Obtain safety training, obey safety rules and make safety an integral part of each task. Take the necessary steps to stop work if continuing the job is unsafe or will create an unsafe condition. Manage the process for uncovering and recommending product/business/technology development and the implementation thereof with respect to facilities, personnel and other SRS and DOE Complex initiatives. Promote the same on a broad basis at SRS and within the DOE/NNSA complex. Provide the implementing and start-up management planning and support for the Program initiatives. Provide guidance for the need for additional technical support requirements. Program manage these new program initiatives. Provide preliminary legal (NEPA) and financial analysis support these activities. Develop, manage, and consolidate all related budget and documentation requirements to justify and obtain funding for this Program and to manage 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 is support of Program planning. Develop programs, budgets and manpower requirements to support related strategies and initiatives. Develop, plan and recommend appropriate technical, business strategies and technology program strategies to SRNS Senior Management, as well as to NNSA and external organizations.

Duties/Responsibilities:
Job Description/Specific Duties: Responsible for leading the development of the Life Cycle Cost and Schedule Estimates for the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program for the replanned Program.
Successful candidate will be part of the program management leadership team developing the Program estimate.

Work with the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) to concisely define the scope of the program. Provide input to NNSA to support 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 in a consistent manner to ensure efficient data collection and analysis.

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

Establish program costs, schedule, 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 analysis 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 as 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 is to be accomplished by planning and supporting weekly LCCE schedule reviews with a complex-wide group of responsible parties where schedule activities are tracked and statused. Establish action items and track progress 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 and 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 schedule 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.

Lead and manage 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
Education:
Minimum Requirements • 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.
• Demonstrated experience working in complex environment managing multiple integrated work scopes. • Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• 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.

Experience/Skills:
Preferred Experience
Nuclear industry experience is preferred to non-nuclear experience.
• DOE nuclear experience is preferred to commercial nuclear experience.
• SRS, Pantex, LANL, or WIPP experience is preferred to other DOE complex experience (scopes of work at these facilities are part of the estimate).
• Plutonium processing experience is preferred to other nuclear experience.
• GAO compliant Life Cycle Cost Estimate development experience is preferred to other cost or schedule estimating experience
. • Management/leadership experience is preferred to individual contributor experience. Higher level/senior management experience is preferred to lower level.
• Experience with program baseline development, baseline control, variance reporting and change control processes is preferred. Earned value management system familiarity/proficiency meets this criteria.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Candidates who have possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years are preferred.

Previous experience in developing, reviewing, and maintaining SRS safety basis documents is preferred.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Area Security Access: Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance. Supplier shall possess a positive FOCI determination from DOE which includes “Q” security clearance level. Candidates who have possessed an active DOE clearance (“L” or “Q”) within the past two years are required. (Note to SRNS team – justification for the clearance requirement is that the LCCE development process is underway. The ability of an uncleared individual to contribute effectively to this process will be limited. Individuals with limited capability to contribute will adversely impact the LCCE development schedule and commitments/milestones to NNSA that SRNS award fees are based on.)

Work Hours:
A 40-hour work week is scheduled. SRNS utilizes various work schedules; including 5/8s (8 hours/day; five days per week), 4/10s (10 hours/day; four days per week), and 9/80s (9 hours/day, five days on week A and 4 days on week B). Work week excludes SRNS holidays. SRNS Management will determine best schedule depending on work needs. Each workday has a 30- minute lunch unpaid.


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