What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager A - Life Cycle Cost Estimate (Part-time/Remote) position at Edgewater Technical Associates?
Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for a Program Manager A – Life Cycle Cost Estimate (Part-time) opportunity to support the Savannah River Site.
Work Location: Aiken, SC (90% remote, 10% onsite)
Application Deadline: 02/06/25 (by noon ET)
Program Manager A – (LCCE/Life Cycle Cost Estimate Development)-
Duties:
- 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 implementation and start-up management planning and support for the Program initiatives.
- Provide guidance for the need for additional technical support requirements.
- Program manages 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.
- Responsible for supporting the development of the Life Cycle Cost and Schedule Estimates (LCCE) for the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program for the replanned Program. Successful candidate will be part of the program management team developing the Program estimate.
- Will not have managerial responsibilities for personnel and will not be involved in giving assignments or tasks.
- Will provide documents, presentations, and general support and coordination needed to complete the LCCE deliverable.
- 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 an 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 NNSA.
- 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 statuses.
- 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, sensitive 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.
- Support the 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.
Education/Years of Experience:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in technical field (engineering, science, or business management) with minimum sixteen (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 twelve (12) years of broad experience in engineering, operations, strategic and business planning OR MBA with a technical undergraduate degree with twelve (12) years of experience as described above.
Skills/Experience:
- Ten (10) years of 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.
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience with program baseline development, baseline control, variance reporting and change control processes. Earned value management system familiarity/proficiency meets these criteria.
- GAO compliant Life Cycle Cost Estimate development experience.
- Plutonium processing experience.
- SRS, Pantex, LANL, or WIPP experience.
Other Job Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance.
- Possessed an active DOE clearance (“L” or “Q”) within the past two (2) years.
If you are interested in being considered for this position, please follow the application steps via our website: www.edgewatertech.net/careers
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We look forward to hearing from you!
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Founded in 2003, Edgewater is a professional and technical services firm supporting the U.S. Department of Energy, Canadian Commercial Nuclear Industry, and private sector businesses involved in high-hazard or large complex operations. Edgewater proudly offers expertise in numerous technical disciplines necessary to support operational environments where Integrated Safety Management and formal, disciplined operations are essential to ensure safety, quality, security, and regulatory compliance.
Edgewater Technical Associates is committed to employing and maintaining a staff of highly skilled professionals to support our customers. In keeping with this objective, we offer highly competitive salaries and employee benefit packages structured to best suit your needs. We offer multiple individual and family benefit options including paid time off, medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance, and a pre-tax 401 (k) retirement account with Company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1.
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