Maritime Training Program Manager

Harkcon, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will coordinate schedules, deliverables, risks, and performance data to help customers advance from qualification to sustained job performance. The role is primarily remote with periodic on-site work at federal facilities in Washington, DC and Yorktown, VA; eligibility to obtain a Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Engineering or Business; PMP if degree is in another field.
• Six+ years of experience managing complex projects.
• Experience with schedules, risks, deliverables, stakeholder coordination, and executive reporting.
• Ability to understand technical work and training requirements while maintaining program objectives.
• Strong facilitation and customer-service skills.
• Ability to obtain Secret-level eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day program execution and coordinate with customer leaders, instructors, analysts, and support personnel.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, action logs, risk registers, decision records, and status reports.
• Translate requirements into work packages, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate analysis and improvement of qualification pathways, training materials, and assessment methods.
• Facilitate working sessions, reviews, and decision meetings; prepare agendas and minutes.
• Monitor cost, schedule, staffing, quality, dependencies, and customer information; propose corrective actions.
• Oversee documentation quality and configuration control for plans and products.
• Use data from training and workflow systems to identify performance gaps and support decisions.
• Coordinate with dispersed teams and onsite activities at facilities.
• Oversee enterprise competency-management and collaboration systems administration.
• Oversee technical-support requests and escalation of issues.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Scheduling & risk management

Executive reporting

Facilitation

Analytical writing

MS Office proficiency

Education

Four-year degree in Engineering or Business

PMP certification

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint)

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that helps federal organizations improve workforce performance, strengthen programs, modernize processes, and manage complex mission-support activities. We value sound judgment, clear communication, accountability, and practical solutions that help customers accomplish their missions.

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a complex federal training and workforce-performance initiative in a maritime or other regulated technical environment. The successful candidate will coordinate schedules, people, risks, deliverables, customer decisions, and performance data while helping the customer improve how personnel progress from initial qualification through sustained job performance.

Location: This position is primarily remote, with occasional work at federal customer facilities in Washington, DC, and Yorktown, Virginia. Ability to attend required on-site activities is essential.

*** This position is contingent upon award of a contract to Harkcon***

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day program execution and serve as the principal point of coordination for customer leaders, technical specialists, instructors, analysts, and support personnel.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, action logs, risk registers, decision records, and recurring status reports.
• Translate operational and training requirements into manageable work packages, priorities, assignments, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate analysis and improvement of qualification pathways, job-performance requirements, training materials, assessment methods, and supporting business processes.
• Facilitate working sessions, reviews, and decision meetings; prepare agendas, read-ahead materials, briefing products, minutes, and follow-up actions.
• Monitor cost, schedule, staffing, quality, dependencies, and customer-furnished information; elevate issues early and recommend practical corrective actions.
• Oversee documentation quality and configuration control for plans, requirements, analytical products, training-support materials, and executive communications.
• Use data from training, qualification, workflow, and issue-tracking systems to identify performance gaps and support customer decisions.
• Coordinate with geographically dispersed organizations and support periodic on-site activities at customer facilities.
• Coordinate administration of enterprise competency-management and collaboration systems, including user training, guidance, data maintenance, and access permissions.
• Oversee technical-support requests, monitor resolution, and coordinate escalation of unresolved issues.

Required Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Engineering or Business. Candidates holding a four-year degree in another field must possess a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• At least six years of experience managing and delivering complex projects.
• Experience applying project-management methods to schedules, risks, deliverables, stakeholder coordination, and executive reporting.
• Ability to understand technical work, training requirements, qualification standards, and operational constraints without losing sight of program objectives.
• Strong facilitation, analytical writing, briefing, and customer-service skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to meet federal background-investigation, credentialing, and system-access requirements and remain eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance. An active clearance is not currently required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or delivering maritime training, reviewing course materials, or assessing mariner competency.
• Demonstrated experience managing a military, maritime, transportation, public-safety, industrial, or other regulated technical training program.
• Experience supporting marine safety, vessel inspection, maritime credentialing, military qualification, or technical workforce-development programs.
• Familiarity with federal training-management, learning-management, corrective-action, workflow, or case-tracking systems.
• Experience supporting organizational change, business-process improvement, performance analysis, or instructional-systems development.
• Prior experience working with a uniformed service or federal operational organization.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position which may support a distributed team through a combination of remote work and activities at federal customer locations. The employee must be able to participate in virtual and in-person meetings, work during normal customer business hours, travel periodically, and use customer-approved collaboration and information systems. Specific location, travel, and access requirements will be confirmed before placement.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Harkcon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.