Program Analyst
Gibbs & Cox

Arlington, Virginia

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Company Profile

Gibbs & Cox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States. Since our founding in 1929, 24 classes of combatants and nearly 7,000 vessels have been built to Gibbs & Cox designs. We proudly support military and commercial clients in the U.S. and internationally with all phases of marine design, construction, and lifecycle management. Our passion is solving our customers' 21st century maritime challenges with quality and integrity.

Gibbs & Cox is an EEO/An Affirmative Action M/F/D/V Employer

Location: any Gibbs and Cox office or 100% remote

General Description

In this role, you will collaborate with functional management leads, program office and client stakeholders to plan and manage complex engineering programs related to the design, development and delivery of prototype and full-scale production unmanned surface vessels. You will work with technical leads to maintain performance measurement baselines for cost, scope and schedule and to execute and monitor diverse management plans in support of program and business objectives.

General Duties

  • Your top job is to collect program performance data, perform analysis, and provide meaningful information to the Program Manager as to the state of program execution for complex, software intensive system-of-systems (SISoS) engineering programs
  • You will interface with engineering, finance, business operations, contracts and project managers to translate customer objectives into the performance measurement baseline (PMB)
  • You will monitor actual costs expended against planned budgets and maintain predictive measures of financial performance (e.g., estimate to complete, variance at completion, etc.)
  • You will maintain program issue, risk and opportunity registers and facilitate root cause analysis, lessons learned workshops and team retrospectives
  • You will manage Program Management Office (PMO) meetings, reports, action items, etc.
  • Support the Program Manager by initiating actions to ensure timely preparation and submission of program documentation by technical teams, providing detailed review to ensure consistency and quality of program documentation
  • Support a culture of teamwork, enthusiasm and customer success within the program


Minimum Requirements
  • Active US Secret Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance
  • 3-5 years experience as Program Analyst
  • Familiarity with industry best practices for program and project management
  • Fluency with MS Office products, especially Excel including use of pivots, v-lookups and sumifs
  • Experience using Costpoint Project and General ledger data from Cognos or similar reporting tool with an understanding of Projects, Orgs, Accounts, POs, Indirect rates, PLCs, Funding and Revenue
  • Direct experience using a planning and budgeting tool such as Costpoint Planning, TM1 or similar
  • Experience using PMIS or productivity tools to plan, track and monitor project work, project team member tasks and actual vs. planned costs
  • Excellent communication skills and customer service orientation
  • Strong organizational skills and mastery of details

Desired Qualification
  • Experience maintaining a resource loaded, multi-project Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to plan and mange detailed schedule networks from design, assembly, and test to operations and sustainment-validating scope, workflow and resources needed to execute the program
  • Experience supporting an Agile PMO and Portfolio Based Accounting
  • Familiarity with engineering system development life cycle (SDLC) and process documentation
  • Experience with SharePoint libraries and entry-level SharePoint administration
  • Experience managing project server templates and creation of MS Project schedules
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related discipline; or four years' relevant experience; or two years' relevant experience and a Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) certification from PMI

Security Requirements

Applicant will be subject to a security investigation and must meet the eligibility requirements to obtain and maintain a security clearance issued by the US Government. In addition to the security clearance, this position may require an additional background screening for base access.


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