Program Manager B-52 Div (WBD) - 1.3.21

About this role

Overview At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future. We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 13 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success. Credence has an immediate need for a Program Manager B-52 Div (WBD) at the principal level who will be primarily responsible for supporting the B-52 Stratofortress Division (AFLCMC WBD) at Wright Patterson AFB, OH. The B-52 Stratofortress division protects our nation by modernizing and sustaining the B-52 fleet and ensuring continued AF power projection. With a 60-year history as the backbone of the nation’s nuclear deterrence operations, the current fleet of 76 B-52H aircraft is capable of deploying the widest array of weapons in the U.S. inventory and supports multiple combatant command operations.  This division provides world-class expertise and technical services, ensuring the operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness of war-winning capabilities. It also maintains the airworthiness of the B-52 Stratofortress throughout its projected service life, which extends to 2050. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below Apply knowledge and experience in acquisition program management policies and procedures to USAF systems, subsystems, and equipment procurement activities, post-award project/program management tasks, and acquisition programs throughout their life cycles. Apply a full range of acquisition program management policies and procedures to perform acquisition management activities in support of existing and future F/B Directorate aircraft programs and platforms. Support proposal reviews as assigned by the customer and assist in coordinating documentation across financial management, program management, contracting, configuration management, engineering, and logistics management functions. Assist in consolidating functional inputs into common documents and planning for the accomplishment of program milestones. Provide assistance in risk management, project management, process improvement, and logistics support, including participation in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and Product/Process Improvement Working Groups (PIWGs). Collect programmatic inputs from acquisition programs throughout their life cycles, including research, development, production, test, acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and modernization of existing and advanced capabilities. Assist in performing non-voting advisory support for program source selections, determining program progress, and communicating recommendations orally and in writing to higher organizational management. Develop and coordinate responses to taskers related to internal and external program inquiries. Support warfighter Urgent Operational Needs (UON) and Joint Urgent Operational Needs (JUON) execution teams by recommending accelerated test concepts, minimum integration levels, and trade-offs among risk, schedule, performance, and cost. Produce or review program office products, including business case analyses, trade-off studies, acquisition and logistics estimates, requirements documents, acquisition strategies, and acquisition plans. Support program offices during Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA), Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR), Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), Production and Deployment, and Operations and Support (O&S) phases, including milestone activities. Assist in performing MSAs leading up to design reviews and support the development of draft documentation and presentation materials based on cost, schedule, and performance limits. Support strategic scheduling and planning documentation, including Integrated Master Plans (IMPs), Integrated Master Schedules (IMSs), and reporting frameworks for event-based activities. Develop, analyze, and maintain integrated program schedules from concept exploration through system fielding, including lower-tier schedule networking, network statusing, duration assignments, relationship development, and schedule graphics. Evaluate contractor-proposed schedules against Government schedules, assess program office schedules against schedule databases, and support probabilistic and deterministic schedule risk assessments, including Schedule Risk Assessments (SRAs) using Monte Carlo simulation-based tools. Develop program management strategies and support Business Case Analyses (BCAs), Cost of Ownership (COO) analyses, aging aircraft analyses, process documentation, PWSs, SOWs, Data Item Descriptions (DIDs), test plans, acquisition plans, LCMPs, LCSPs, ELMPs, QASPs, ASPs, IMPs, IMSs, AIPs, and AIMPs. Support development of contract strategies, Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs), program risk assessments, market survey requirements, executive briefings, stakeholder coordination, briefing updates, and meeting minutes. Perform analyses to support program strategy decisions and courses of action and provide program assessments to ensure milestone documentation aligns with program strategy. Provide inputs, draft, coordinate, adjudicate comments, and produce final coordinated milestone documents and assessments, including staff summary packages for milestone approval. Support requirements document development and the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process and staffing. Translate user requirements documents, including Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Capability Production Documents (CPDs), and CONOPs, into Request for…