Title:
IT Program Manager
Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!
KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.
Why Join Us?
- Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
- Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
- Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
Key Responsibilities:
- Integrating Current and Future Efforts: Lead the integration of current and future efforts, ensuring smooth coordination across different technical teams and program initiatives
- Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the liaison on technical matters between Sponsor leadership and external stakeholders
- Facilitating Cross-team Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration among multi-technical disciplines (data, development, and infrastructure) and Sponsor teams, ensuring that projects align with the Sponsor’s long-term goals and technological standards and ensure seamless project integration
- Providing Updates and Solutions: Communicate project updates, technical challenges, and solution strategies to government leadership and stakeholders, to enable transparency and effective decision-making
- Prioritizing Efforts: Assist Sponsor executive team in prioritizing efforts, managing schedules, and making informed business decisions related to maritime technology projects
- Infrastructure and Exploitation Platforms: Planning and managing multiple projects involving Sponsor infrastructure and exploitation platforms
- Data Collection: Collect, organize, or create program artifacts, in support of the Sponsor’s data collection requirements
- Process Improvement: Improving existing processes to enhance operational efficiency and work to ensure timely project completion
- Evolving Mission Priorities: Managing evolving mission priorities for current technologies, including adapting to changes in mission needs
- Presentations: Coordinate the preparation of presentations, reports, and other materials for senior leadership
- OCONUS Travel: Travel overseas for work approximately 1 week out of every month
Work Environment:
- Location: On-site
- Travel Requirements: Moderate 25% OCONUS
- Working Hours: Standard
Qualifications:
Required:
- Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering or related field
- Experience: Minimum of 12 years
- Cost and Schedule Performance: Demonstrated experience serving as the primary point of contact for a program for all technical, cost and schedule performance matters and issues
- Program Daily Operations: Demonstrated experience overseeing daily operations for a program
- Oversight and Reviewing Program Personnel: Demonstrated experience managing assigning, providing oversight and reviewing work of program personnel
- Programmatic and Technical Artifacts: Demonstrated experience ensuring necessary programmatic and technical artifacts required to effectively and successfully manage the program are created, maintained and are accurate
- Vendor Management: Demonstrated experience consulting with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess needs and mission priorities
Desired:
- Communication and Coordination: Demonstrated experience with communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and leadership teams
- Program Management Artifacts: Demonstrated experience preparing program management artifacts such as presentations or reports
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.
KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
