Jobs at Hanwha Defense USA, Inc.

Leads enterprise FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, program finance, EVMS integration, cost optimization, cash management, capital planning, and financial compliance across complex naval shipbuilding and defense manufacturing portfolios. Oversees government contracting compliance, audit readiness, pricing support, executive reporting, program recovery, and investment decisions while partnering with contracts, treasury, operations, and senior leadership.

Develop and integrate embedded software for U.S. Army ground combat weapon systems. Responsibilities include requirements, coding, testing, software safety, cybersecurity engineering, system integration, fire-control functionality, verification and validation, digital engineering, risk mitigation, and technical coordination with customers and subcontractors. The role supports ballistic, targeting, sensor, firmware, and system-of-systems interfaces, with travel to customer sites, partner facilities, test ranges, and integration events.

Provides systems engineering leadership for a ground combat vehicle program, including requirements management, system architecture, MBSE and digital engineering, technical baseline management, cross-disciplinary integration, verification and validation planning, risk mitigation, and technical reviews. Collaborates with government customers, industry partners, subcontractors, and engineering teams. Requires defense-sector experience, familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, MBSE tools, and travel to customer, partner, and test locations.

Leads Hanwha Defense USA’s production procurement and supply chain organization supporting shipbuilding programs. Establishes sourcing strategy, develops domestic and international suppliers, negotiates contracts, manages supplier performance and risk, oversees material planning and logistics, and ensures compliance with defense procurement, import/export, hazardous goods, and domestic sourcing requirements. Builds and mentors procurement teams, manages capital project procurement, drives cost reduction and continuous improvement, and coordinates with production, engineering, quality, compliance, security, and finance teams.

Develop and execute federal government relations strategy focused on defense procurement opportunities. Lead engagement with Congress, defense committees, federal agencies, and acquisition policy bodies. Monitor defense budgets and policy changes, advise executives, manage external consultants, and coordinate government relations with business development and communications teams. Translate technical capabilities into policy and value propositions for senior government stakeholders.

Leads the full contract lifecycle for munitions and energetics programs, including government and commercial negotiations, production awards, subcontracts, OTAs, compliance, audits, sourcing, export controls, FOCI mitigation, cybersecurity requirements, and contract closeout. Advises Army contracting activities and program leadership while supervising the munitions contracts team and supporting domestic and international program needs.

Leads the development, integration, quality assurance, and delivery of U.S. Army technical publications for ground vehicle systems. Creates operator and maintenance manuals, IETMs, troubleshooting guides, illustrated parts breakdowns, training materials, and safety content. Coordinates with engineering, logistics, safety, and program teams; interprets technical data and validates procedures. Ensures compliance with Army and defense documentation standards, manages structured authoring and publication systems, and supports audits, reviews, and government acceptance.

Administer enterprise contract repositories, records, obligations, reporting, contract closeout, compliance controls, supplier diligence, and audit support. Maintain registrations, templates, policies, and procedures while verifying FAR/DFARS flowdowns and coordinating export-control and security requirements. The role also identifies workflow improvements and supports contracts leadership across defense business divisions.

Manage government contract cost and pricing for Navy shipbuilding bids, establish CAS-compliant accounting and compliance processes, and prepare the organization for DCAA/DCMA audits. Responsibilities include developing indirect rate structures, preparing incurred cost submissions and forward pricing rate proposals, advising leadership on FAR, DFARS, and CAS requirements, and partnering with finance, legal, and program teams to ensure compliant contract execution.

Manage integrated supply chain operations across procurement, supplier management, production planning, inventory, and logistics in a defense manufacturing environment. Ensure compliance with ITAR, EAR, FAR, DFARS, and government contracting requirements; monitor supplier performance and risk; develop forecasts and supply plans; optimize inventory and transportation; use SAP or ERP/MRP systems; support audits; and provide reporting for leadership.

Manages annual budgets, direct and indirect rate development, Forward Pricing Rate Proposals, incurred cost submissions, variance analysis, and government audit readiness. Partners with finance, accounting, contracts, program management, and department leaders to ensure FAR, DFARS, CAS, DCAA, and DCMA compliance. Reports financial performance and corrective actions to leadership, supports cost and rate audits, maintains accounting and estimating system readiness, and drives policy improvement and accountability.

Senior Accounting Manager overseeing accounting operations, month-end close, project and revenue accounting, payroll support, indirect rate calculations, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, audits, and DCAA compliance. The role administers Deltek Costpoint and SAP Concur, supports government-contracting accounting, analyzes project and departmental performance, and mentors accounting staff while partnering with operational leaders and senior finance leadership.

Leads government contract strategy and administration for shipbuilding capital investments. Manages the full contract lifecycle, including solicitation, negotiation, award, modifications, compliance, risk assessment, audits, disputes, and closeout. Develops investment business cases, tracks federal funding and policy developments, negotiates prime contracts, subcontracts, teaming agreements, and OTAs, and maintains relationships with senior U.S. Government stakeholders. Supports production, engineering, development, and service programs while ensuring cost, schedule, technical, and regulatory alignment.

Oversees accounting operations, financial reporting, month-end close, project and revenue accounting, payroll support, indirect rate calculations, budgeting, forecasting, and audit compliance. Manages Costpoint and Concur systems, prepares financial analyses and reporting packages, supports federal contractor requirements including DCAA regulations, and mentors accounting staff. Partners with operational, program management, supply chain, HR, and corporate teams on financial decision-making and process improvements.

Owns HDUSA enterprise systems, especially Deltek Costpoint and SAP, while building the company data warehouse, integration pipelines, workflows, and AI capabilities. Ensures systems support government contracting, audit, CUI, ITAR, FOCI, and access-control requirements. The role configures and enhances ERP and workflow platforms, establishes data governance, improves cross-functional processes, supports reporting and program controls, and leads future analysts, developers, and data engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring direct development, data engineering, process design, compliance oversight, and collaboration across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, and program management.

Leads and helps build a naval shipbuilding engineering organization supporting U.S. Navy programs. Oversees ship design, production engineering, systems integration, naval architecture, proposals, estimating, specifications, and compliance. Acts as deputy engineering leader and represents the company with government customers, executives, industry partners, and international shipbuilders. Requires extensive naval engineering leadership, proposal experience, international collaboration, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Manage the full subcontract lifecycle for defense production, engineering, and service programs. Responsibilities include subcontract strategy, solicitation, negotiation, administration, modifications, closeout, supplier performance, cost and price analysis, FAR/DFARS/ITAR compliance, risk mitigation, proposal support, and audit-ready documentation. The role partners with program, engineering, production, finance, legal, and export-control teams and supports U.S. and international suppliers.

Leads system integration and hardware-in-the-loop testing for Army ground vehicle programs. Develops and maintains SIL/HIL labs, test plans, procedures, instrumentation, simulation models, and configuration-controlled environments. Conducts requirements-based, functional, regression, and interface testing across vehicle subsystems; investigates failures, manages discrepancies, supports corrective actions, and delivers formal verification documentation. Collaborates with engineering, software, logistics, safety, and program management teams while ensuring compliance with defense-industry and Army testing expectations.

Develop and manage Integrated Master Schedules for complex defense programs using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Analyze critical paths, dependencies, risks, schedule health, and earned value metrics. Collaborate with program, engineering, operations, supply chain, contracts, government, and subcontractor stakeholders. Prepare customer deliverables, support proposals and estimates, integrate cost baselines, mentor junior schedulers, and improve scheduling governance.

Supports accounting and finance operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoice validation, payment processing, Costpoint transaction entry, charge-code mapping, DCAA cost allowability, reconciliations, and month-end close. Provides project cost data for forecasting and reporting while maintaining compliance with federal contracting requirements.