Job Description

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Essential Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of large, high visibility, potentially high-risk projects, first of a kind solutions, penalties, and rewards, accelerated schedules for advanced military product market..
•  Act as a single point of contact for internal / external project team. Assuming overall responsibility for project leadership and strategy including planning, directing, and controlling resources / processes in complex work-scope projects to ensure compliance to customer specifications, quality standards, and safety and technical standards
•  Estimate budgets and track / influence costs of projects, ensuring on time completion within budget. Engage as required in pre-contract processes during project scope, scheduling, and cost development.
•  Interface with various engineering fields and support functions to coordinate project development, implementation and control of Project Specialists, Project Managers, and Engineers to enhance project management skills.
• Interface with suppliers, subcontractors, and customers to align project specifications and requirements.
• Determine and communicate work package percent complete and percent committed required for project financial "estimate at completion" forecasting.
• Facilitate the quantification and documentation of project performance with both the project team and customer immediately after project completion.
• Ability and willingness to travel 15 of the time.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 10 years of experience in managing software engineering project)  +  Minimum of 5 years of experience in managing software engineering projects
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to attain and maintain U.S. Security Clearance.

Desired Characteristics:

• Prior experience in managing software engineering projects
• Understanding of DoD procurement lifecycle
• Prior experience in contracting, logistics, maintenance, and/or sustainment of DoD contracts
• Earned Value Management experience strongly preferred
• Previous responsibility for projects or programs involving multiple businesses and/or functions across the entire project cycle, i.e. development and design through manufacturing, delivery, installation, and commissioning and test acceptance
• Ability to manage external, customer-facing projects to successful completion
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams and partners
• Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of service quality in all aspects of project delivery
• Ability to successfully interface with executive level management within both the sponsor and customer organizations  
• Decision-making skills, interpersonal & leadership skills coupled with oral and written communications
• Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple long and short-term projects simultaneously
• PMI certification; familiarity with modern project management techniques & software systems, including global resource planning systems and Deltek Open Plan and Microsoft Project project management software applications
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities  
• Familiarity with contractual terms and experience managing customer-facing contracts including proposal preparation for complex substations, which might include international work and quality training

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn​
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively​
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed ​
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative​
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. 

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General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.​

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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