Deputy Program Manager MACH-TB

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Leidos’ Defense Systems - Hypersonics and Advanced Materials Division is seeking a Deputy Program Manager to join our team of talented scientists, engineers, and program staff focused on advancing the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) Flight Test Program and implementing defense solutions that are enabled by the application of materials in extreme environments.

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With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions.

The focus of the MACH-TB Program is to develop rapid cadence, affordable flight-testing capabilities to quickly advance the hypersonic Technology Readiness Level. As a leader on the MACH-TB Team, the successful candidate will assist the Program Manager in leadership of all program management functions for a complex, diverse, multi-organization team involved with design, development, and flight testing of advanced technology/experimental missile systems and subsystems in support of a low-cost, high-paced Hypersonics experimental payload development and test program. The position will have responsibility for planning, tracking, and execution of complex tasking within technical, schedule, and budget constraints. The program will execute many tests with a large variety of experiments involving payload integration, thermal protection, and system integration. The program will also involve management complexity related to performance of multiple simultaneous task orders necessitating interactions with the TA-1 Prime contractor, a large group of subcontracted team members, multiple national labs as part of a “badge-less” team, several geographically dispersed places of performance, and a complex multi-agency customer set including MDA, Navy, Army, Air Force, DARPA and OSD organizations such as Hypersonics and the Test Resources Management Center (TRMC).

The Deputy Program Manager will:

• Lead, manage, coach, and mentor program staff.

• Identify personnel needs and work with appropriate hiring manager(s) to fill identified gaps.

• Utilize expert communication skills to clearly inform team of program mission, goals, and objectives and to provide strategic direction per guidance, and in alignment with, the Program Manager.

• Assist Program Manager in supervising program activities and ensuring they are aligned with the PWS objectives.

• Directly contribute to program efforts in such areas as: cost management/avoidance, schedule estimation and tracking, contract performance management, risk management, and requirements analysis.

• Lead or contribute as required in development of program reviews (internal and external).

• Represent Program Manager, as required, in support of reviews, meetings, customer visits, subcontractor visits, etc.

• Engage team members and customers on a routine basis to fully understand customer requirements and assess the program’s progress toward fulfillment of those requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree from an ABET-accredited institute.

• Candidate must have at least 12 years of experience in managing testing, planning, and scheduling in support of complex technical programs.

• Strong verbal and written skills.

• Candidate must have strong leadership credentials, good organizational skills, attention to detail and work well as a key member of a team often tasked to be highly responsive and agile in order to satisfy critical technology development needs.

• Disciplined, metric-driven prog