Maritime Training Program Manager

Harkcon, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role focuses on coordinating schedules, deliverables, and performance data to help customers advance from qualification to sustained job performance. The position is primarily remote with on-site requirements at times in Washington, DC and Yorktown, VA.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Engineering or Business; PMP required if degree in another field.
• At least six years of experience managing and delivering complex projects.
• Experience applying project-management methods to schedules, risks, deliverables, and executive reporting.
• Ability to understand technical work, training requirements, and operational 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).
• Ability to meet federal background-investigation and security-clearance requirements (eligible for Secret).

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.

Skills

Project management

Facilitation

Analytical writing

Customer service

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Four-year degree in Engineering or Business

PMP certification if degree in another field

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.