ACQUISITION PROGRAM MANAGER
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Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 pay band (GS-13 equivalent) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: managing acquisition program plans and life cycle support control of nuclear subsystems; monitoring and analyzing contractor performance to identify problems and recommend corrective action; and supporting the planning, programming and budgeting process for an assigned program. Experience must also include knowledge of large-scale nuclear-capable missile production, assembly, and test facilities and associated support equipment requirements..
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will serve as the Program Acquisition Manager for the D5 and D5LE Production and Deployed Systems Support (P DSS) missile sub system requirements,You will perform all required tasks as delineated including the development, management and completion of program acquisition and contract milestones, Earned Value Management and Integrated Baseline Reviews.,You will lead Procurement Planning and Strategy Meetings. and ensure final agreement by all stakeholders on the correct procurement strategy to support missile subsystem requirements.,You will serve as the technical representative and liaison during acquisition and contract milestones to include: pre-negotiation clearance development and approval processes, negotiations, and other branch pre/post acquisition contract efforts.,You will lead the development and finalization of missile subsystem requires and transpose those into request for proposals, initiate, negotiate, and establishes procurement requests requirements.,You will create and maintain long range acquisition and contracting schedules for the missile branch.,You will be responsible for acquisition strategy, acquisition plans, and contract incentive programs, to pursue particular performance and cost objectives as a function of measured performance compared to pre-established objectives and criteria.,You will serve as technical expert for all Quality Assurance efforts in the missile branch.
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This job's listed pay is 96% above the benchmark.
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- H-1B specialty occupation: Employer petition, bachelor's degree or higher in the specialty; annual cap and lottery
- L-1 intracompany transferee: Employees of a related company abroad transferring to a US office
- O-1 extraordinary ability: Evidence of extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics
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Answered at our last check on Nov 1, 2026.
Closes on Nov 5, 2026.
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