Junior Program Management Analyst

Position Summary 

The Junior Program Management Analyst (Jr. PMA) plays a pivotal role in ensuring our deployed operations maintain mission readiness to provide 24-hour support to an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) program. Jr. PMAs are responsible for all aspects of executing and overseeing pre-deployment and administrative tasks for both internal personnel and external customers. Jr. PMAs will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with strategic objectives, identify areas for improvement, and implement solutions to enhance program performance.  

Business Unit Overview

Metrea Special Aerospace (MSA) provides a full range of aerospace solutions from integrated C4ISR operational services and tailored aviation services to advanced tactical helicopter training. MSA is a leader in commercial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) with superior platforms and a constantly evolving set of capabilities across all levels of services. We also offer custom, discreet, convenient, and reliable options to meet our partners’ mission needs in the air and on the ground and expert instructors well-versed in special mission aviation tasks and integrated air-ground-maritime planning and execution. 

MSA designs, prototypes, engineers, and tests commercial, military, and government special mission applications for our US government and international defense customers, OEM partners, and private aircraft owners. We have recovered, serviced, and delivered aircraft globally throughout North, Central, and South America, as well as Europe, Asia, Africa, and along the Pacific Rim. Our integrated solutions are the product of our deep stack of aviation capabilities and related design, acquisition, engineering, training, operations, and evaluation services offered to our customers in either integrated packages or as standalone services. Our organizational culture prioritizes safety, innovation, quality, and efficiency with responsive and flexible support.

Metrea Enterprise Overview

Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects as-a-service across a spectrum of domains including Air, Space, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Simulation. Metrea Management provides central services to 12 global business units via Operations, Solutions, Strategy, Legal, and Finance teams. 

Essential Functions

• Partner with Program and department leadership with day-to-day management, oversight, and strategic tasking, to successfully accomplish required key performance indicators (KPIs). 
• Perform complex administrative and analytical tasks in support of contract requirements by Identifying, analyzing, submitting, and tracking contract deliverables and required documentation, ensuring on-time or ahead of schedule delivery free of all errors and discrepancies.
• Deliver clear and proficient training to OCONUS personnel on administrative functions, including but not limited to, expense reports, timecards, and travel. 
• Provide strategic and creative methodologies to increase efficiency through creation of administrative operating practices and standard operating procedures.
• Assist Sr. PMAs with special projects assigned from Program Leadership.
• Serve as liaison between OCONUS personnel and other departments. 
• Ensure OCONUS personnel remain compliant on Government Flight Representative (GFR) deployment readiness through consistently communicating, tracking, and providing the necessary items for completion. 
• Request Country Theatre Clearances through the Aircraft and Personnel Automated Clearance System (APACS), Letters of Authorization (LOA), and Individual Anti-Terrorism Plan (IATP), from the U.S. Government for travel to program related countries, track, and record documentation, to clear OCONUS personnel for deployment.
• Create expense reports for OCONUS personnel, collect requirement documentation, and ensure correct coding and submission according to the timeline established in the company Expense Reporting policy.
• Ensure travel reimbursement is recorded and processed accurately to assist finance and accounting with travel invoice preparation and maintain quick responsiveness to issues or questions that are identified.
• Review OCONUS personnel’s timecards for correct coding and coordinate timesheet corrections through payroll.
• Support emergent travel requirements for supporting AOG situations. 

Competency Statements

• Possess superior communication and expert level knowledge of all functioning business unit practices.  
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