Position Overview:

OBXtek seeks a Program Manager for the Department of State Technical Security Engineering (TSE) staffing program. Based at U.S. Government facilities in Springfield, VA, the PM will oversee and ensure delivery of all performance under the contract and be responsible to the Contracting Officer (CO), Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), and Government Technical Monitors (GTMs) for performance and delivery. The PM will directly supervise all site managers and ensure quality recruiting, hiring, personnel management, training, and support for all contract personnel and positions. The role combines contract execution, customer engagement, workforce leadership, and fiscal management with OBXtek’s existing PMIP-aligned financial and growth expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contract Execution and Government Interface: Serve as the focal point for all contractor functions affecting contract performance. Interact with the CO, COR, and GTMs daily or weekly, as required, to ensure performance across all contract tasks. Advise and assist regarding the contract’s technical scope; ensure timely, accurate reporting, provision of qualified personnel, and implementation of all contract and statement of work requirements.
• Site Oversight, Risk, and Continuity: Directly supervise all site managers and oversee planning, scheduling, organizing, managing, and assessing the performance of all contract personnel. Direct ongoing risk-mitigation and continuity-of-operations strategies consistent with contract requirements. Communicate risks candidly, resolve customer concerns and escalations, document corrective actions, and support Satisfactory or better CPARS outcomes.
• Delivery and Fiscal Management: Oversee on-time delivery of requirements, invoicing, and other fiscal management functions. Manage approved revenue, direct margin, and cost-control objectives; prepare accurate forecasts and estimates at completion; monitor staffing costs, funding, and financial risks; and coordinate billing, collections, and corrective actions with Finance and Contracts.
• Organic Growth: Identify and shape opportunities to expand existing customer work through funded scope expansion, task order growth, customer-funded enhancements, follow-on work, and option support. Partner with Business Development and Contracts to document opportunities and validate funded results through executed contract actions and Finance records.
• Support New Business Growth Strategy: Provide substantive support to assigned captures, recompetes, proposals, customer shaping, and adjacent opportunities. Contribute management approaches, staffing and transition plans, solution artifacts, past-performance inputs, subject matter expertise, and oral presentation preparation; maintain evidence of completed contributions.
• Workforce Leadership and Conduct: Oversee recruiting, selection, orientation, development, counseling, discipline, and support of contract employees. Plan, establish, and review compensation actions; enforce policies and procedures; and ensure required professional development training. Review, assess, manage, and correct conduct that could reflect poorly on the Department of State or OBXtek. Retain and develop a stable team, maintain succession plans, set measurable annual goals, and document results through monthly reporting and at least quarterly cross-functional reviews.

Additional OBXtek Qualifications and Leadership Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10 years of progressively responsible federal program or portfolio management experience, with accountability for delivery, staffing, customer relationships, and financial results.
• Demonstrated success delivering concurrent contractual commitments, meeting quality and staffing requirements, managing risks, and maintaining corporate and contract compliance.
• Experience managing revenue, direct margin, budgets, forecasts, estimates at completion, and funding constraints; able to explain variances and drive corrective action with Finance and Contracts.
• Ability to lead customer and executive discussions, collaborate across functions, address difficult issues candidly, and resolve escalations, supported by CPARS or equivalent documented customer feedback.
• Demonstrated team leadership in recruiting, onboarding, retention, coaching, employee development, and succession planning.
• Documented contributions to funded account growth and capture, recompete, proposal, solution, staffing, transition, or oral presentation efforts, with clear examples of individual responsibilities and results.

Experience using measurable goals, dashboards, financial reports, risk registers, and opportunity records to drive decisions and quarterly reviews. PMP or equivalent program management certification preferred.

Salary Range:  $160,000 - $230,000 per year. The salary range listed for this position represents a good-faith estimate of the expected compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to; the candidate's experience, education, skills, certifications, geographic location, project budget, contract requirements, and current market conditions.