Project Manager, Systems Integration, Engineering

Job Description

We offer a competitive salary for this role, with an expected range of $65,900 to $83,500. The final offer will depend on your experience, skills, and overall qualifications. General Dynamics – Bath Iron Works also provides a variety of benefits including medical & dental insurance coverage, 401(k) retirement savings plan, flexible spending accounts/HSAs, life and disability insurance, company paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), health coaching, athletic trainers, employee assistance programs and onsite health services.

BIW Lead Yard Services (LYS) Organization functions as the premier design agent of the Navy for Surface Combatants. The Systems Integration (SI) Team is central to the LYS Organization’s Engineering Change Process, with technical oversight of all Engineering Change and with active coordination and collaboration with all other entities within LYS. SI Team works to create Engineering documentation, and oversee detail design development supporting multiple programs, including DDG 51 New Construction and DDG(X) / BBGN next generation surface combatants. Utilizing the Business operating system the SI Team works to meet all quality, schedule and cost goals in support of the LYS operating plan.

The Project Manager role will directly support the SI Team and directly report to the Engineering Manager of SI. Product Quality, Change Process, and real-time Status / Work Tracking are paramount to success of the SI Team, and the Project Manager will provide direct oversight of those three categories. Strong leadership and communication skills are critical to this role, as well as high attention to detail and an unwavering passion for configuration management and process adherence for SI products.

Key Responsibilities

Safety:

• Champion and enforce BIW safety policies and procedures.
• Promote a culture of proactive safety awareness and accountability across the team.
• Ensure safe workplace conditions and compliance with government and company safety standards.

Project Execution:

• Quality: This position will provide consistent final QA of all submitted SI Engineering products (ICPs, ECPs, One Page Summaries, Eng White Papers etc) as well as all Technical Data Package Inputs to SI from Lockheed Martin & C4I. This position will also define / track Quality metrics and develop / give Quality Training yearly to the SI Team. This requires a strong knowledge of the following:
• Administrative / Formatting requirements for SI Products based on current Procedures.
• Organization of CCBL products and configuration management of data codes & elements between all CCBL (ship specs, PPDs, Contract Drawings, ICDLs, Schedules A – E).
• Change Process: SI has direct ownership of 24 separate Procedures and operates as a stakeholder in many other procedures owned by Configuration Management & Program Office entities within LYS. This position will provide a single knowledgeable Process Owner & Author within SI and for collaboration with CM & PMO on inputs to their procedures.
• A major focus for this position will be Championing overhaul of all SI Change Processing Procedures into a new CM2 hierarchy & workflow to align with new MBSE (model based systems engineering) philosophy and software currently being adopted within SI Team. New established Procedures for CM2 hierarchy & workflow will then evolve further over time as we adopt PLM / ERP software within our organization over the coming years.
• Status & Work Tracking: SI Team tasking is largely Level of Effort and tracked manually within the Team across multiple supervisors & project leads. This position will provide a single point responsible for consolidated daily / weekly status & tracking, and for development and publication of all necessary reports & slide deck inputs.
• This will require sustained collaboration with the Software Dev Project Engineer within SI to develop & automate reporting where possible, and also to evolve this reporting as we transition to MBSE / CM2 / PLM / ERP.
• Occasional travel is required for participation in MBSE / CM2 conferences and training, and Navy meetings (CM Summit, FY Upgrade Change Boards).

Team Collaboration and Communication:

• This position focuses on process improvements and process development within the Design Services engineering organization. Where improvements impact deliverables or customer processes, the person will be required to coordinate and facilitate the smooth execution of the changes across functional organizations.
• Provide process leadership and guidance to the team, supporting day-to-day operations and providing input for long-term initiatives and milestones.
• Foster collaboration between engineering, design, program office, operations, etc.
• Participate in or lead process improvements which have a meaningful impact to the business.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; adept at giving technical presentations at group meetings.
• Positive attitude toward a team environment and demonstrated ability to function as a contributing engineering team member.

Stakeholder Engagement and Business Development:

• Maintain strong professional relationships with the U.S. Navy including NAVSEA PMS 400, NAVSEA, and other stakeholders.
• Promote BIW capabilities and Design Services, supporting business development and growth opportunities.

Continuous Improvement:

• Follow the BIW Business Operating system, utilizing tools to improve and enhance the team, including root cause analysis (A3’s) Kaizen events, or other similar types.
• Maintain Viz board for visibility and awareness, and use dashboard metrics, to identify problem areas, and create plans & mitigations to improve the business.
• Identify and eliminate non-value-added activities, lead implementation of process improvements.

Required/Preferred Education/Training

• Bachelor of Science Degree desired & high level proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Working knowledge and understanding of LYS, Engineering Change Process, CM, CCBL desired
• Ability to read, interpret, and follow procedures, standards, and work instructions required.
• Innovative Leadership qualities, problem solving capabilities, and a strong passion for employee development required.

Required/Preferred Experience

Required:

• Ability to communicate effectively (verbal & written) with all levels of the company and customers.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Proven ability to foster a constructive and motivated work environment based on teaming.
• Proven ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced, rapid response technical environment.
• Occasional weekend overtime supervision coverage will be required.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance.
  • This position requires you to be able to obtain a government security clearance. You must be a US Citizen for consideration, and you must be able to obtain an interim security clearance within the first 45 days of hire. For more information regarding the security clearance process, please visit Investigations & Clearance Process (dcsa.mil).

Preferred:

• Familiar with ship specifications as related to design requirements.
• Working knowledge of the BMDA collective bargaining agreement.
• Working experience with Earned Value Management.