SN Weather Systems Sustainment Program Manager

Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, Ltd.•Colorado Springs, CO

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Odyssey Systems has an exciting new opportunity providing Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) supporting the US Space Force mission to defend National Security Interests in Space as a Space Sensing (SN) Weather Systems Sustainment Program Manager supporting the Ground-based Sensors Branch of Space System Command’s System Delta 810 Space/Terrestrial Environmental Analysis & Resource Branch (SSC SYD 810/ETS). SYD 810 develops, acquires, fields, and sustains next-generation space-based and ground-based environmental monitoring capabilities that provide global, persistent, and timely battlespace awareness data to protect national assets and enable warfighter operations. Odyssey Systems is looking for high-performing, passionate people ready to make a difference by joining our existing team of dedicated professionals in the SN workforce! SSC SYD 810/ETS integrates SN operations with current SN programs of record, networks, and Command and Control (C2) data exploitation and dissemination systems and is responsible for sustainment of existing ground-based weather systems, including Ionospheric Ground Sensors (IGS), Solar Electro-Optical Network (SEON), MARK IV-B, Space Weather Analysis & Forecast System (SWAFS), Military Assistance to the Space Environment (mase), Talonthe USSF SSC/SZB depot and development contractors, as well as 6a, and Electric Charged Particle sensor (ecp). Odyssey Systems provides A&AS support to the Government in five areas: Product Support, Sustainment Engineering & Sustainment Management, Technical Order Management, Technical User Interface, and System Design, Engineering, and Integration. These tasks are executed laterally with USSF SSC/SZB depot and development contractors and with SN stakeholders. This is a full-time position at 1055 N Newport Rd, Colorado Springs, CO, with the potential for 3-4 days of telework per week at the discretion of the government.

Requirements

Must be a US citizen
Active Secret clearance, able to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, program management, or a related field
4 years of directly relevant experience performing program management activities within an Air Force, Space Force, DoD, Intelligence, or Missile Defense Agency Acquisition organization
Project Management, Earned Value Management, or related training
Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and team building skills with demonstrated ability to build consensus in a government/contractor team environment
General understanding of DoD Space Operations and Space Sensing Systems

Nice To Haves

Active DoD Secret clearance, agreeable to polygraph
Master’s degree in engineering, project management, or a related field
8 or more years of experience with 4 or more years of experience performing program management activities within an Air Force, Space Force, DoD, Intelligence, or Missile Defense Agency acquisition organization
Defense Acquisition University (DAU), Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Program Management, PMP, or equivalent

Responsibilities

Provide acquisition support: assist in developing acquisition strategies, cost estimations, requirements, statements of work, and requests for proposal
Review and provide technical evaluation of vendor proposals for sustainment, contractor re-competes, upgrades, and modifications
Prepare and staff required program and contract documents; interact with financial, contract, scheduling, risk management, and execution activities and personnel
Support and draft inputs to sustainment and modification budgets for the US Government program manager; assist in developing annual government budget items and justifications for each in the Comprehensive Cost and Requirement (CCaR) and Sustainment Planning, Execution, and Reporting (SPERS) systems
Coordinate, review, and provide input to and comments during the development of system design documentation, including technical requirements documents (TRDs), capability description documents (CDDs), capability production documents (CPDs), interface control documents (ICDs), and system specifications
Support the Government at technical interchange meetings (TIMs), design reviews, test readiness reviews, internal staff meetings, Integrated Product Team (IPT) meetings, working groups, and informal meetings, interfacing with prime contractor program management and technical personnel
Organize and support working group meetings across multiple organizations; research, provide recommended solutions and/or resolve questions, issues, and risks identified in IPT meetings; develop and provide recommended actions to the Government Program Management team and to Portfolio and Division senior management; coordinate with prime contractors, depot contractors, and Government functional teams
Develop strategies, plans, and packages for classified and unclassified document submissions and facilitate associated life cycle cost planning and benefit analyses, partnering, acquisition of data rights, and provisioning, staffing packages through process and final approval
Review and provide relevant critical feedback on contractor-prepared schedules, budgets, development, and test plans
Provide program oversight support to the Government team; prepare briefings, reports, and informational analyses in support of the Division’s programs; identify and prepare consolidated lessons learned reports from applicable related programs
Other duties as requested by the Government and within the constraints of the S3 contract