USW-DSS Deputy Program Manager, Engineering (DPME) at General Dynamics Mission Systems in Virginia

Responsibilities

• Technical Coordination
• Coordinate engineering activities across multi-disciplinary functional teams including systems engineering, integration, and test.
• Direct day-to-day work priorities across assigned engineering functions, working in close coordination with the technical lead and program manager.
• Lead engineering change control processes, ensuring technical changes are evaluated, documented, and communicated across the team and to external stakeholders.
• Maintain visibility into technical risks and ensure mitigations are tracked, assigned, and executed.
• Drive cross-site coordination between Port Orchard and Manassas to ensure program continuity and a unified team approach.
• Identifies and pursues opportunities to leverage AI tools to improve engineering workflows, development processes, and program efficiency; supports the program’s effort to integrate AI capabilities into production deliverables.
• Program Execution
• Maintain the engineering schedule and track commitments across development, integration, test, and delivery milestones.
• Monitor budget performance for engineering activities as needed and surface variances to the Program Manager.
• Develop and maintain engineering plans, including release plans, integration schedules, and deployment coordination across multiple baselines including hosted infrastructure ashore, non-hosted, laptop, afloat, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) environments.
• Ensure all project deliverables — including documentation — are developed with high quality and delivered on schedule.
• Identify and resolve execution issues.
• Identify, develop, analyze, and report engineering project performance measures.
• Support configuration and change management processes across the program lifecycle.
• Based on the small team size, performing other technical tasks as needed.
• Conduct lessons learned reviews after each major delivery to drive continuous improvement and ensure action completion.
• Serve as Deputy Program Manager for the Program Manager on engineering matters as needed.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Serve as the primary engineering interface with the government systems engineering team and ISEA organization for technical reviews, IPTs, and day-to-day project and deliverable coordination.
• Represent engineering commitments, schedule status, and technical plans at internal and external program reviews and customer engagements.
• Coordinate with subcontractors, supply chain management, and external stakeholders on technical priorities, interface requirements, and delivery expectations.
• Author and review engineering plans, schedules, and correspondence in support of government technical interactions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• 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.
• Experience coordinating work across multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Familiarity with systems integration processes and multi-system interface management.
• Experience participating in or supporting formal technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, test readiness reviews, deployment reviews).
• Demonstrated ability to maintain schedules and manage technical change in a complex program environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging directly with GDMS leadership and customers.
• Experience in a DoD or Navy program environment, ideally in Navy undersea warfare, ASW C2, or related Navy networked systems programs.
• Familiarity with Navy ISEA or SYSCOM systems engineering processes.
• Background in networking, infrastructure, or software systems integration in classified environments.
• Experience supporting Foreign Military Sales (FMS) or multi-national program baselines.
• Experience managing engineering schedules and technical change control in a multi-site program.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.

Skills

Preferred

• Active TS/SCI security clearance