Program Manager B-52 (WBD) - 01.3.11

Credence; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

Credence seeks a senior Program Manager (Part-Time) to support the B-52 Stratofortress Division at Tinker AFB, OK. This role emphasizes acquisition program management, life-cycle support, and cross-functional collaboration across financial, contracting, engineering, and logistics teams.

The position focuses on coordinating schedules, managing risks, and contributing to procurement and modernization efforts for national security missions.

Qualifications

• Experience applying acquisition program management policies and procedures.
• Strong risk management and schedule coordination capabilities.
• Ability to support IPTs, PIWGs, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Apply acquisition program management policies to USAF systems and procurement activities across life cycles.
• Support existing and future aircraft programs and platforms with program management activities.
• Assist in reviews of proposals and coordinate documentation across management functions.
• Consolidate inputs into documents and plan for program milestones.
• Support risk management, process improvement, and logistics in IPTs and PIWGs.
• Gather program inputs from development through sustainment and modernization phases.
• Assist in non-voting advisory support for source selections and progress reporting.
• Develop and coordinate responses to internal and external taskers.
• Support Urgent Operational Needs by recommending accelerated test concepts and trade-offs.
• Produce or review program office products including analyses and plans.
• Support program offices through multiple development-to-operations phases.

Skills

Acquisition program management

Risk management

Project coordination

Schedule development

Tools

Integrated Master Plans (IMPs)

Integrated Master Schedules (IMSs)

Monte Carlo schedule risk analysis

Job description

Overview

Join a team where innovation meets mission. Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With more than 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI & data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver on a scale and with purpose. We've been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for six consecutive years and named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming environment for those looking to grow and make a meaningful impact. We encourage employees to push boundaries and help solve critical, world-changing federal challenges.

Position Summary

Credence has an immediate need for a part-time Program Manager B-52 (WBD) at the senior level who will be primarily responsible for supporting the B-52 Stratofortress Division (AFLCMC WBD) at Tinker AFB, OK. The B-52 Stratofortress division protects our nation by modernizing and sustaining the B-52 fleet and ensuring continued AF power projection. With a 60-year history as the backbone of the nation's nuclear deterrence operations, the current fleet of 76 B-52H aircraft is capable of deploying the widest array of weapons in the U.S. inventory and supports multiple combatant command operations. This division provides world-class expertise and technical services, ensuring the operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness of war-winning capabilities. It also maintains the airworthiness of the B-52 Stratofortress throughout its projected service life, which extends to 2050.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge and experience in acquisition program management policies and procedures to USAF systems, subsystems, and equipment procurement activities, post-award project/program management tasks, and acquisition programs throughout their life cycles.


• Apply a full range of acquisition program management policies and procedures to perform acquisition management activities in support of existing and future F/B Directorate aircraft programs and platforms.


• Support proposal reviews as assigned by the customer and assist in coordinating documentation across financial management, program management, contracting, configuration management, engineering, and logistics management functions.


• Assist in consolidating functional inputs into common documents and planning for the accomplishment of program milestones.


• Provide assistance in risk management, project management, process improvement, and logistics support, including participation in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and Product/Process Improvement Working Groups (PIWGs).


• Collect programmatic inputs from acquisition programs throughout their life cycles, including research, development, production, test, acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and modernization of existing and advanced capabilities.


• Assist in performing non-voting advisory support for program source selections, determining program progress, and communicating recommendations orally and in writing to higher organizational management.


• Develop and coordinate responses to taskers related to internal and external program inquiries.


• Support warfighter Urgent Operational Needs (UON) and Joint Urgent Operational Needs (JUON) execution teams by recommending accelerated test concepts, minimum integration levels, and trade-offs among risk, schedule, performance, and cost.


• Produce or review program office products, including business case analyses, trade-off studies, acquisition and logistics estimates, requirements documents, acquisition strategies, and acquisition plans.


• Support program offices during Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA), Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR), Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), Production and Deployment, and Operations and Support (O&S) phases, including milestone activities.


• Assist in performing MSAs leading up to design reviews and support the development of draft documentation and presentation materials based on cost, schedule, and performance limits.


• Support strategic scheduling and planning documentation, including Integrated Master Plans (IMPs), Integrated Master Schedules (IMSs), and reporting frameworks for event-based activities.


• Develop, analyze, and maintain integrated program schedules from concept exploration through system fielding, including lower-tier schedule networking, network statusing, duration assignments, relationship development, and schedule graphics.


• Evaluate contractor-proposed schedules against Government schedules, assess program office schedules against schedule databases, and support probabilistic and deterministic schedule risk assessments, including Schedule Risk Assessments (SRAs) using Monte Carlo simulation-based tools.


• Develop program management strategies and support Business Case Analyses (BCAs), Cost of Ownership (COO) analyses, aging air