Deputy Program Manager for Technical Services (DPM-TS)

Accountabilities

• Technical & Program Leadership: Provide day-to-day leadership for Technical Services and Program Controls, advising program leadership and clients on technical, contractual, design, constructability, mission systems, and facility performance matters.
• Requirements Management: Establish and maintain rigorous processes to capture, trace, validate, and manage functional, technical, security, and performance requirements throughout planning, design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Design Oversight: Lead technical reviews of design submissions and verify alignment with mission requirements, DoD criteria, applicable codes and standards, anti-terrorism and force-protection requirements, and secure-facility standards.
• Value Engineering & Risk: Direct value-engineering studies focused on lifecycle cost, performance, maintainability, resilience, and mission capability while identifying and mitigating technical, cost, schedule, scope, and contractual risks.
• Program Controls: Oversee integrated master scheduling, cost estimating, budget forecasting, GMP analysis, change-order and claims evaluations, financial tracking, trend analysis, and program-level performance reporting.
• Specialty Technical Support: Lead technical support for secure facilities, accreditation, IT and communications infrastructure, mission systems, networking, specialized infrastructure, and other mission-critical systems.
• Security & Accreditation: Support compliance with ICD 705 and other applicable secure-facility requirements, coordinating with government security and accreditation authorities and ensuring technical requirements support mission readiness.
• Technical Inspection & Quality: Manage field engineering and technical inspection activities, including construction conformance, nonconformance resolution, shielding and CPS verification, IT infrastructure inspections, and documentation required for accreditation.
• Commissioning: Oversee commissioning activities across building systems, mission-critical systems, IT infrastructure, and specialty systems, ensuring required performance, redundancy, reliability, and resilience objectives are achieved.
• Team & Resource Management: Lead multidisciplinary technical and program-controls teams, including planning, recruitment, mobilization, staffing, execution, and coordination with internal resources and external partners.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Support program governance forums, technical review boards, risk boards, and coordination meetings with government representatives and other stakeholders.
• Reporting & Performance: Monitor technical and controls activities and provide accurate, actionable reporting on milestones, risks, cost, schedule, security, technical performance, accreditation, safety, and overall program objectives.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a closely related technical discipline; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Experience: 15+ years of broad and diversified experience in design, requirements development, technical services, construction management, or related disciplines on large, complex capital projects or programs, preferably involving secure or mission-critical facilities.
• Clearance: Active Secret security clearance with the ability to maintain the required clearance throughout employment; TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
• Construction Expertise: Strong knowledge of construction management practices, including design oversight, technical reviews, field engineering, commissioning, quality, and construction execution.
• Program Controls: Demonstrated experience with integrated master scheduling, cost management, forecasting, risk management, financial performance, change management, and program reporting.
• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary technical and controls teams, including subordinate managers and specialized technical groups, within complex or matrixed organizations.
• Secure Facilities: Experience with secure, mission-critical, intelligence, federal, or similarly regulated facilities is highly valued, including familiarity with ICD 705 or comparable requirements.
• Delivery Methods: Experience with Progressive Design-Build, CM at Risk, or other early-contractor-involvement and alternative delivery models is preferred.
• Federal Experience: Prior Department of Defense or comparable federal experience is preferred.
• Professional Credentials: PE or Registered Architect registration is preferred, as are PMP and/or Certified Construction Manager (CCM) certifications.
• Safety & Quality: OSHA-10/OSHA-30 construction safety certification and USACE/NAVFAC Construction Quality Management certification are preferred.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear reports, briefings, recommendations, and technical documentation for senior government and program stakeholders.
• Leadership: Confident senior-management presence with the ability to influence decisions, organize complex outcomes, resolve challenges, and effectively support program leadership.
• Risk Management: Strong ability to identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate technical, cost, schedule, contractual, and program risks.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships across geographically distributed teams, government stakeholders, contractors, designers, consultants, and other partners.

Benefits

• Salary: Estimated base salary range of $134,100–$241,400, with actual compensation determined by factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, and location.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with company participation and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Time Off: Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Insurance Protection: Life insurance and additional employee protection benefits.
• Flexibility: Flexible work schedules designed to support work-life balance.
• Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development, advancement, and long-term career progression.
• Mission Impact: Opportunity to contribute to major federal infrastructure, defense, security, and mission-critical programs.
• Work Environment: Remote position available from locations across the United States, supporting complex programs and multidisciplinary teams.