Chief Engineer Program Support

If you are looking to continue your career providing Program Management support in a great overseas location, we may have the position you are looking for.  We have a full-time position in Naples Italy providing Program and Administrative support to the Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) Chief Engineer (CHENG). 

Essential Responsibilities include:

• Perform a wide array of preparation and administration duties for the Chief Engineer (CHENG)

• Responsible to the FDRMC CHENG to receive, analyze, and amass technical data and communicate status to respective point of contacts to include FTA trends, Departure from Specification (DFS) trends

• Management of conflicting priorities between FDRMC sites to include prioritizing daily calls, schedules, and other administrative duties

Support will include the actions and responsibilities listed below:

Program Management Support (75%): 

• Prepare bi-weekly special projects status, routine data updates, and key metrics

• Assist in the research, formulation, and developing select technical inquiries, reports, and metrics

• Update and track Workforce Development (WFD) for engineering personnel

• Assist in developing a Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms), assignments, and tracking status of current ship repair projects to support continuous improvement initiatives and requirements

• Consolidate and track maintenance availabilities and key events

• Assist in researching and verifying technical documents for accuracy, including instructions, programmatic MOAs, standard operating procedures, memorandums/letters, templates, and other governing instructions

• Coordinate inspections and evaluations, such as the bi-annual Fleet Maintenance Activity Assessment and tri-annual Engineering Technical Authority Evaluation

• Develop and provide presentations and training materials for technical community

• Develop and provide metrics that reflect FTA, TSRA, CMO, and I-level support performance and critical trends to support decisions

• Prepare professional papers on critical technical issues for presentation

Administrative / Executive assistance (25%)

• Prepare weekly read-/plan-ahead

• Manage Defense Travel System (DTS), calendar, review email and prioritize daily planning

• Daily review of email inbox and de-conflict schedules

Minimum Requirements:

• 7 years of job-related experience

• Good written communication skills; working knowledge of word-processing and integrated software applications; organizational skills and ability to perform detail-oriented work

• Must have significant project management experience in multi-faceted teams of complex nature

• Must have significant experience in working in a team supporting Program Objective Memorandum (POM) with an understanding of data metrics

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret US government clearance. Note: US citizenship is required to obtain a secret clearance.

Preferred Experience:

• At least 6 years of experience supporting FDRMC

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans and Labor Laws Posters.