Project Manager

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Rockville, MD, USA
Hybrid
118K-201K Annually
Senior level
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The Role
Manage technical program cost, schedule, risk, and quality activities supporting the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs. Responsibilities include developing estimates and work breakdown structures, applying earned value management, maintaining integrated master schedules, tracking risks and mitigations, coordinating corrective actions, reporting project performance, and liaising between technical staff and the PMO. The role requires adapting to project changes, organizing tasking, communicating customer requirements, and supporting program implementation.
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Job Description
BAE Systems is seeking Project Managers to support the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs (SSP). BAE Systems' SSP team provides support to our country's most important nuclear deterrent program, the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Program. Join us in ensuring continued exceptional Product Support for the current Strategic Weapons System (SWS) and future weapon system development, production and deployment. As a program project manager, you represent the technical program managers and staff to liaison with the Program Management Office (PMO) in the following activities:
Cost Management:
  • Create, provide, and maintain annual Basis of Estimates and recommend a Work Package and program Work Breakdown Structure to align with and capture the technical work to be performed
  • Understand and use Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques
  • Provide process feedback and report project performance to the Technical Managers and PMO Cost Control Manager
Schedule Management:
  • Ensure technical program compliance with baseline change control processes
  • Liaison with planners to maintain an accurate Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
  • Provides schedule status reports to meet technical staff guidelines
  • Provide process feedback and report project performance to the Technical Managers and PMO Schedule Manager
Risk Management:
  • Identify technical risk and make recommendation to the technical staff to establish and track technical mitigation plans
  • Communicate internal and external risks and appropriate mitigations to applicable stakeholders
  • Provide process feedback and report project performance to the Technical Managers and PMO Risk Manager
Quality Management:
  • Coordinate and lead technical staff preventive action process reviews and corrective action planning and implementation
  • Represent the technical Program Area Rep to resolve all quality related items
  • Provide process feedback and report project performance to the Technical Managers and PMO Quality Manager
As a decades long sole source partner on multiple contracts on behalf of our customer, our program has remarkable stability and is concurrently experiencing significant growth. Combined, these factors provide ample opportunity for professional growth and development for capable and talented individuals on our team.
About the program
Our organization has supported the U.S. Navy's Strategic Systems Program (SSP) continually since the program's inception in the 1950s. SSP developed the first sea-based, underwater-launched Strategic Weapon System (SWS), a defense system that is truly critical to our national security. For more than six decades, SSP has maintained and upgraded this weapon system, and we have been there every step of the way. The sea-based SWS is the ultimate stealthy weapon system and as the first leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. With over 70% of our nation's nuclear arsenal its importance to maintaining world peace cannot be overstated. The development of Columbia, the most advanced nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarine ever designed, as well the next D5LE2 weapon system is under way and will begin to be rolled out over the next decade. The Navy projects this system to be operational through 2084, meaning the program will have a total life span of more than 120 years. This is a truly unique program and BAE Systems employees on this program understand they are part of an important legacy.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Education and years of related/relevant work experience required: Bachelor's degree in STEM and 6 years related/relevant work experience or equivalent education and years of related/relevant work experience required.
Additional skills/experience required:
  • Must have experience in a technical background in a DoW Environment
  • Experience as a project liaison between technical staff and PMO
  • Experience in organizing team tasking
  • Experience developing and implementing return to green analyses
  • Ability to adapt to internal and external project changes
  • Ability to anticipate and communicate customer requirements
  • Familiarity with project lifecycle
  • Superior communication and presentation skills
  • Be an agile thinker with the ability to move between planning and program implementation
  • Proficient knowledge of the SharePoint, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, advanced functions in Excel, and Project

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Certified Project Management Professional
  • Experience in a project management position
  • Familiarity with Level of Effort (LOE) service contracts
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Power BI
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Project

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118095 - $200762
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
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.
About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security
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.
Intelligence & Security (I&S), based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do-from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in STEM and 6 years of related or relevant work experience, or equivalent education and experience
  • Technical background in a Department of War environment
  • Experience serving as a project liaison between technical staff and a Program Management Office
  • Experience organizing team tasking
  • Experience developing and implementing return-to-green analyses
  • Ability to adapt to internal and external project changes
  • Ability to anticipate and communicate customer requirements
  • Familiarity with the project lifecycle
  • Superior communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to move between planning and program implementation
  • Proficiency with SharePoint, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, advanced Excel functions, and Microsoft Project
  • Project Management Professional certification
  • Experience in a project management position
  • Familiarity with Level of Effort service contracts
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Power BI
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Project

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  • Retirement Support A 401(k) savings plan is broadly available, with employer matching and other contributions that vary by business unit, and some U.S. employee groups retain pension arrangements. Company‑paid basic life insurance equal to 2x base salary (up to $1M) further strengthens financial security.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave (e.g., 160 hours for full‑time employees) sits alongside adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and Bright Horizons backup child and elder care. These benefits help reduce care gaps and complement PTO and applicable state programs.

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Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do. As a leading aerospace, defense, and security company, we work together to deliver a full range of products and services for air, land, space, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. How we work is rooted in purpose – a purpose to protect those who protect us, to unite our community of colleagues and customers, and to drive forward the growth and development of our exceptional team members. It's where purpose connects.

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We believe your career should be filled with innovation and discovery. And that's exactly what you'll find at BAE Systems. As you work to develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills and expand knowledge. On a sharp and collaborative team, you will be challenged – and supported – at every turn.

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