COLUMBIA Certification Program Representative

General Dynamics Corporation; Groton (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, CT, seeks a Columbia Certification Program Representative to lead certification readiness for the Columbia Class submarines. You will manage certification activities, coordinate with EB and government teams, and drive issue resolution to maintain schedule, cost, and quality.

You will engage across departments, applying program management principles, and use tools like PowerBI and Teamcenter to track progress and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; engineering degree preferred.
• 5+ years Navy, EB or government contractor experience in planning, test, quality, engineering or program offices.
• Experience with certification programs and cross-functional leadership is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned functional areas with certification readiness and delivery of Columbia Class submarines from Groton.
• Support daily oversight and programmatic management of Columbia Class certification.
• Resolve certification issues in time-critical environments with EB and government teams.
• Prepare status updates and brief leadership for weekly/daily reports to Columbia PM.
• Develop metrics and content for management-level out briefs to EB leadership and customers.

Skills

PowerBI

Microsoft Office

Communication

Problem Solving

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's of Science in Engineering

Tools

EB3G

EB7G

ERS/CPJ

PCM

MCF

Teamcenter

Job description

COLUMBIA Certification Program Representative

Responsibilities for this Position

COLUMBIA Certification Program Representative

US-CT-Groton

Job ID: 2026-20584

Type: Full-Time

# of Openings: 1

Category: Program Management

EB Groton Shipyard

Overview

The COLUMBIA Class is the Nations Top Strategic Defense Priority. Construction is underwayand requires continuous success through construction, test, and certification to meet the Nations Defense needs.This new Program Representative position will provide focused program management of EBs readiness to execute CLB certification, starting with test key events and progressing through end-game Big C events. The program representatives must continuously measure assigned functional area's performance against key objectives and initiate prompt corrective action(s) when required.

The representative will engaged in collaboration to solve programmatic design, construction, and operations engineering issues.

This position provides a unique platform to lead through the successful readiness to execute CLB certification. Candidates will be expected to balance multiple competing priorities while maintaining focus on quality, schedule, and cost performance requirements.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead assigned functional areas with certification readiness, execution, and delivery of COLUMBIA Class Submarines from the Groton Shipyard.
• Support the groups daily oversight and programmatic management of COLUMBIA Class certification
• Based on assigned priorities, provide EB and government programmatic teams support of certification leading to cognizant EB experts, when required, to resolve emergent certification issues in a time critical environment
• Provide status to be summarized by leadership to support weekly / daily reports of issues and actions to COLUMBIA Program Management
• Support development of metrics, summaries, and other content for management level out briefs to all levels of EB management and customers (SOSG and PMS 397, RPCO and NNL, NRRO and NR)

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing schedules & priorities
• Demonstrated ability to apply innovative thinking and problem solving to resolve complex problems
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks and opportunities and manage them accordingly
• Effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to all EB levels internal and customers
• Develop and instill trust in others
• Establish and maintain effective customer relations
• Motivate others to seek improvements, change, or develop new processes
• Experience in Microsoft products suite and PowerBI
• High level understanding of at least one major certification business system (e.g. EB3G, EB7G, ERS/CPJ, PCM, MCF)
• Teamcenter Experience
• Directly involved in work completion and/or certification activities

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years of Navy, EB and/or government contractor experience in Planning, Test, Quality, Engineering, Program Office and/or design

Preferred:

• Member or leader of a team that executed at least one certification
• 10 years of direct experience with ship certification
• Prior cross-functional leadership experience
• Bachelor's of Science degree in Engineering (or higher)

General Dynamics Electric Boat is a recognized leader in the design, construction and lifecycle support of submarines for the United States Navy.