COLUMBIA Certification Program Representative

General Dynamics Electric Boat; New London (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, CT is seeking a Program Representative to lead readiness and certification activities for the COLUMBIA Class. You will coordinate certification efforts across EB and government teams, focusing on test events and end-state readiness while balancing schedule, cost, and quality.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in Navy/EB/government contracting environments, with strong communication, problem solving, and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 5+ years of Navy, EB and/or government contractor experience in Planning, Test, Quality, Engineering, Program Office and/or design.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned functional areas with certification readiness, execution, and delivery of COLUMBIA Class Submarines from the Groton Shipyard.
• Support the group’s daily oversight and programmatic management of COLUMBIA Class certification.
• Provide EB and government programmatic teams support of certification, guiding cognizant EB experts to resolve emergent 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 EB management and customers.

Skills

Adaptability

Problem solving

Risk management

Communication

Customer relations

Team motivation

Process improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PowerBI

Teamcenter

Microsoft Office

Job description

The COLUMBIA Class is the Nation’s Top Strategic Defense Priority. Construction is underway and requires continuous success through construction, test, and certification to meet the Nation’s Defense needs. This new Program Representative position will provide focused program management of EB’s 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 group’s 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)

Required Qualifications

• 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)

Skills

• 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