Senior Operations Manager (US Citizen) - Tampa, FL - 20

We've determined which skillsets are most beneficial for this role. These skills are listed first below as the Must Haves and Nice to Haves our hiring team highly prefers. Below that you'll find the standard job description for this opportunity.

Must Haves:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (preferably Computer or Electrical), or Computer Science
• At least 10 years of experience in simulation and modeling or related industry
• Leadership skills necessary to manage a small team, experience with Agile methodologies preferred
• Knowledge of Software Development and Integration, Systems Engineering, and hardware interfaces
• Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
• essential functions of this job.
• Work activities require sitting, standing or walking for short periods throughout the day and focused visual
• concentration or focused listening.
• Ability to sit and operate a personal computer for long periods

Nice to Haves:

• N/A

Job Description:
The Senior Manager, Operations for the Technology & Product Development (TPD) group is responsible for coordinating essential daily activities driving successful execution for the entire TPD team. This role requires strategic coordination with the TPD engineering leadership team to ensure rapid delivery of innovative solutions to both customer programs and R&D

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• General staffing manpower forecasts, supporting interview process, onboarding, coordination of program assignments with engineering leaders and program management
• Responsible for all budgetary and forecasting tasks for all Defense & Security R&D projects globally and working with the finance team to maintain forecasts and provide timely reporting on actuals/forecast as required leveraging the company prescribed financial tools
• Ensures customer programs, R&D projects and other supporting initiatives are effectively staffed and are executed to planned budgets
• Closed coordination and effective communication with TPD Senior Director on relevant issues and status
• Leads agile execution leveraging SAFe for all D&S R&D projects and customer programs staffed by the TPD team
• Coordinate employee performance reviews with engineering leaders
• Works with the rest of the TPD leadership team to enhance employee morale and retention rate
• Responsible via delegation for supporting sales team via proposal writing, reviewing and BOE support
• Facilitates project status reporting for all projects in execution in the TPD portfolio
• Along with the rest of the TPD leadership team, supports employees as a resource to eliminate roadblocks, answer questions, etc.
• Coordinating training plans (both corporate and technical) with engineering leaders and timely completions of corporate training tasks
• Facilitate procurement needs for R&D projects
• Effective delegation of tasks to N-1 team members to maximize team efficiency
• Facilitates communication of TPD team accomplishments via TPD newsletter and other mechanisms projects. Staffing, planning, financial forecasting, employee training, communications, and logistics are all key duties for this role.

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