Maritime Training Program Lead (Remote) - Federal

Harkcon, Inc.; Fredericksburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Harkcon, Inc. seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead a complex federal training and workforce-performance initiative in a regulated environment.

You will coordinate schedules, people, risks, deliverables, customer decisions, and performance data to improve how personnel progress from initial qualification through sustained job performance. This position is primarily remote, with occasional on-site activities at federal facilities in Washington, DC, and Yorktown, Virginia.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Engineering or Business; PMP required if field is non-tech.
• Six+ years of experience managing complex projects.
• Experience applying project-management methods to schedules, risks, deliverables, and executive reporting.
• Ability to understand technical work, training requirements, and constraints without losing sight of program objectives.
• Strong facilitation, analytical writing, briefing, and customer-service skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint).
• Eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance; active clearance not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day program execution and coordinate stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, logs, risks, decisions, and status reports.
• Translate requirements into manageable work packages, priorities, assignments, and outcomes.
• Coordinate analysis and improvement of qualification pathways, job-performance requirements, training materials, assessment methods, and processes.
• Facilitate working sessions, reviews, and decision meetings; prepare agendas, materials, minutes, and follow-up actions.
• Monitor cost, schedule, staffing, quality, dependencies, and customer information; elevate issues and recommend actions.
• Oversee documentation quality and configuration control for plans, requirements, products, and communications.
• Use data from training, qualification, workflow, and issue-tracking systems to identify performance gaps.
• Coordinate with geographically dispersed organizations and support periodic on-site activities.
• Coordinate administration of enterprise competency-management and collaboration systems, including user training and access permissions.
• Oversee technical-support requests and escalation of unresolved issues.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder coordination

Analytical writing

Facilitation

MS Office

Education

Four-year degree (Engineering or Business)

PMP certification

Tools

Microsoft Office suite

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead a complex federal training and workforce-performance initiative in a regulated environment.

You will coordinate schedules, people, risks, deliverables, customer decisions, and performance data to improve how personnel progress from initial qualification through sustained job performance. This position is primarily remote, with occasional on-site activities at federal facilities in Washington, DC, and Yorktown, Virginia.