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Project Mgr I - Admin
Job Description: • Lead the strategic planning and execution of a complex packaging production and kitting portfolio, ensuring alignment with overarching business objectives and customer milestones. • Develop comprehensive project plans and manage project operations across multiple complex projects concurrently. Create clear and attainable project objectives, assess/build project requirements, and manage constraints of cost, schedule, scope, and quality. • Establish project management frameworks and governance for packaging initiatives, optimizing resource allocation and streamlining operational workflows across multiple programs. • Drive high-level negotiations and strategic partnerships with customers, teaming partners, and vendors to resolve systemic bottlenecks and optimize the parts procurement pipeline. • Develop comprehensive risk mitigation strategies and opportunity assessments at the program level, proactively identifying systemic threats to the business and proposing corrective actions. • Develop and present technical briefings describing project status and performance metrics to inform internal and external stakeholders. Develop systems and tools to automate project performance metrics. • Identify, communicate, and manage risks/opportunities that impact project completion.
Required Skills and Education: • Expertise in portfolio management of logistics technical projects, balancing competing priorities across multiple high-visibility programs. • Ability to work/coordinate with internal/external customers/vendors to gather requirements, develop plans and execute to budgets/timelines as required. • Ability to work and deliver on short suspense tasking/products in a fast paced potentially stressful environment • Excellent written and oral communication skills. • Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Customer's Project Management framework, capable of interpreting and applying guidelines to novel or complex scenarios. • Creates, incorporates, implements changes to schedule(s) • Working knowledge of Customer's organization, internal policies and processes • Project Organization/tracking • Advanced skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Highly mission oriented • Required Education Level/Major: BS in a relevant technical discipline, with desired focus on management. Equivalent experience can be substituted for educational requirement. • At least 8-10 years of experience in a relevant technical or managerial discipline.
About BAE Systems Platforms & Services Posting: BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
The Platforms & Services (P&S) sector under BAE Systems, Inc does the big stuff: the armored combat vehicles, naval guns, missile launchers, and ship repair…just to name a few. Our employees take pride in the work they do and why they do it. They are on the front lines every day, building our products to protect the lives of those who serve. We may be biased, but we think P&S does some of the coolest work around, and we think you will too.
Preferred Skills and Education: • Strong product knowledge and familiarity with packaging production principles. • Experience with Microsoft Project, Visio, and Access. • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification strongly preferred. • Experience operating within the Earned Value Management System. • Knowledgeable in logistics support activities and applicable military standards/specifications • Ability to interpret DOD contracts, as well as vendor subcontracts and purchase orders (POs). Understanding of military acquisition cycle.
Benefits Information: Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
Intern Benefits: Temporary employees generally are not eligible for BAE Systems benefits, but can elect to participate in the 401(k) savings plan. Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for medical benefits, the employee assistance program, and business travel accident insurance.
Please note: Some benefits may be different for union employees that are governed by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or for positions covered by a wage law called the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA).