Program Manager

Summary

Plans, organizes, coordinates, and manages the overall activities of a technical work unit or team consisting of qualified individuals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides work assignments that are supportive of mission and objectives.
• Executes efforts to identify, develop and institutionalize solutions for assessing overall business performance in alignment with strategic, customer, and financial goals.
• Completes Management Operating System (MOS) gap analysis assessments; drives appropriate industry best practices throughout the business.
• Fosters effective working relationships and systems across business segments to ensure business-wide focus, consistency, and accountability.
• Manages relationships with functional counterparts in industry and parent corporation to leverage contemporary Six Sigma, Lean, and related systems, processes, and tools.
• Implements appropriate business action plans and metrics and assists in the management of enterprise balanced scorecard.
• Executes strategic and tactical Six Sigma Plus improvement activities across the business enterprise.
• Enables the appropriate development of technical and non-technical staff in continuous improvement processes and tools, including all Six Sigma methodologies and philosophies.
• Assures individual project accomplishments and overall work unit effectiveness are achieved relative to committed objectives. Provides leadership for staff development and holds them accountable to meet personal and business objectives.
• Provides technical and administrative evaluation of work unit's goals, development, and performance.
• Develops and implements staffing plans and budget proposals consistent with anticipated workloads.
• Manages employees, processes, and systems associated with contractor assurance system (CAS)
• Directly supervises employees and performs other managerial responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems
• Conducts activities in a safe and healthy manner and works in accordance with established HS&E requirements to ensure the protection of employees, the public, and the environment. Takes actions necessary to "stop" work when an unsafe condition or action is identified. Every employee has the right and responsibility to stop work when unsafe conditions or actions are identified.
• As needed:
  • Executes Six Sigma Plus and or Management Operating System training.
  • Oversees Cost Savings / Avoidance capture.
• May perform other duties as required.

You Must Have

• Bachelors degree
• 7 or more years of experience in Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Lean Deployment, or other related technical activities
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
• United States Citizenship
• Ability to work on-site as directed by management and as determined by the needs of the business
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations)

We Value

• Experience as a UX Research
• Extensive experience in lean deployment including problem solving, quality improvement, process flow, cycle time reduction, and or other forms of waste elimination
• Experience in deployment of Management Operating Systems