Deputy Program Manager, Engineering (DPME)

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 13 years of relevant experience.

Clearance Requirements:
Ability to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

The Deputy Program Manager, Engineering (DPME) is responsible for overseeing engineering projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. The role involves managing engineering resources, resolving technical issues, and maintaining project schedules and budgets. The DPME also plays a key role in risk management, performance feedback, and project change management.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:

• Plans, authorizes, and monitors the engineering work (including providing strong leadership to ensure all events occur as planned)
• Staffs the project team (along with Director of Engineering) with the appropriate engineering personnel
• Fosters cross-functional collaboration and builds project consensus
• Oversees performance, cost, scope and schedule for all engineering efforts (including efforts that are subcontracted)
• Ensures that total system requirements are validated
• Ensures that total system is integrated, tested and verified
• Ensures all project deliverables (including documentation) are developed with high quality and delivered on time
• Develops and maintains engineering plans as required by the project
• Manages the engineering related risks and opportunities of the project
• Develops and manages the project change management process
• Ensures that all engineering processes to be used adhere to established engineering practices
• Manages engineering resources (e.g. staff assignments, capital equipment, etc.), organizational interfaces, and engineering scope
• Identifies, develops, analyzes, and reports engineering project measures
• Conducts monthly engineering status reviews and provides material for the monthly program reviews
• Implements effective corrective actions as required
• Manages the resolution of technical issues, communicates the resolution to all affected parties, and ensures that the resolution is carried out in all of the affected artifacts.
• Conducts lessons learned after each major phase of the project
• Scope of projects are usually large (>$50M) and or have large engineering teams (>50)
• Motivates the engineering team and provides a clear understanding of project goals
• Rewards the team members that drive the success of the project
• Provides performance feedback and management for the project team
• Takes immediate & decisive action in dealing with technical & performance issues
• Leads large proposals with identification of cross business unit strengths and technical shortcoming

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Tremendous leadership skills
• Proven team building and motivation skills
• Proven conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Proven problem solving skills in complex environments
• Recognized internally and externally as an expert in project management
• Tremendous ability to apply or develop highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
• Tremendous understanding of company policies and practices
• Tremendous understanding of engineering processes and practices
• Tremendous planning and organization skills
• Tremendous knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite of tools and Microsoft Project
• Tremendous knowledge of various project life cycles including agile
• Tremendous ability to communicate issues, impacts, and corrective actions
• Tremendous ability to easily and effectively communicate project topics to a diverse audience
• Tremendous ability to clearly report relevant information
• Tremendous ability to understand and apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM), and Statistical Process Controls for large complex programs
• Tremendous ability to anticipate technology, process, and skill needs
• Demonstrates proactive leadership and has name recognition throughout both the company and customer organizations
• Creates an environment in which impact of technology on the business is clearly recognized
• Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans