Program Manager II

Advanced Technology International; Summerville, Northern (SC, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision plans

Flexible Spending Accounts

403B Retirement Savings plan

Paid holidays and time off

Parental Leave

Disability coverage

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Advanced Technology International seeks a Program Manager II to lead complex submarine and shipbuilding portfolios or contribute as a senior technical SME. The role requires coordinating across sponsors, industry partners, and ATI teams, with hybrid/remote or onsite options and a preference for candidates near Charleston, SC.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s or Master’s in a related field with 6–8+ years’ experience, strong communication, and project management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and eight or more related years of experience or a Master’s degree with six or more related years of experience.
• PM certification is viewed favorably but not required.
• Strong communication skills, including presentations, reports, meetings, and group management, are required.

Responsibilities

• Supports execution of ATI’s submarine and shipbuilding industrial base mission in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Coordinates across Government sponsors, shipbuilders, suppliers, academia, and ATI teams to ensure effective execution.
• Develops and maintains program artifacts: statements of work, scopes, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and reports.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Risk management

Leadership

Government programs

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Science/Technical PM

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project)

Job description

ATI builds and manages collaborations that conducts research and development of new technologies to solve our nation’s most pressing challenges. Our collaborations are custom-built teams of organizations from industry and academia that develop novel technologies for the federal government. Traditionally, these processes are complicated and burdensome. That’s where ATI comes in. We simplify and streamline processes to make it all work. When you work at ATI, you become a part of something larger than yourself. Our collective work – no matter what department or division you work in – ultimately enables the warfighter, saves lives, and diversifies the industrial base. At our core, ATI is a service organization. We are in service to others; it’s what we do, and it’s who we are.

Position Description

The Program Manager II supports ATI’s submarine and shipbuilding industrial base portfolio and related defense industrial base programs through advanced program leadership or advanced technical subject matter expertise. This position may be filled in one of two roles depending on program needs.

• In a program leadership role, the Program Manager II leads a complex portfolio segment, major line of effort, or strategically important group of projects. In this role, the individual coordinates cross-functional teams, aligns priorities across stakeholders, supports sponsor objectives, and drives execution across multiple simultaneous projects and initiatives. The Program Manager II may also serve in a deputy leadership capacity for assigned programs.
• In a technical SME role, the Program Manager II contributes advanced subject matter expertise across one or more complex efforts. In this role, the individual may support technical planning, implementation, evaluation, transition activities, performer engagement, sponsor interaction, manufacturing or industrial base problem solving, and cross-project technical integration. Individuals in this role may or may not have direct project ownership.

We offer a hybrid schedule (in-office & remote/work from home), fully remote or an onsite schedule and flexible hours. Candidates will need to reside near Charleston, SC to ensure work site flexibility. Fully remote work may be considered for qualified candidates residing outside of Charleston, SC.

Essential Functions

• Supports execution of ATI’s submarine and shipbuilding industrial base mission in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Coordinates effectively across Government sponsors, shipbuilders, suppliers, academic institutions, technical performers, OEMs, lower-tier subcontractors, and internal ATI teams, as required by assignment.
• Contributes to planning, execution, issue resolution, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across assigned efforts.
• Develops, reviews, or supports execution of key program and project artifacts, including statements of work, scopes, schedules, budgets, deliverables, technical reports, status reports, metrics, and required approvals, consistent with assigned responsibilities.
• Prepares and delivers briefings, dashboards, written analyses, recommendations, and related materials for ATI leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Drives sound judgment, operational discipline, and process improvement across assigned areas of responsibility.

Essential Functions for the Program Leadership Role

• Leads management of complex portfolios, multi-project efforts, or integrated lines of effort involving multiple stakeholders, performers, and technical disciplines.
• Directs project development and execution activities, including startup, solicitation support, issue resolution, reporting, transition activities, closeout, and project award acceleration efforts.
• Establishes and maintains program-level insight into schedule, cost, risks, resource allocation, dependencies, and performance trends, and recommends corrective actions or replanning as needed.
• Coordinates cross-functional support from contracts, finance, technical staff, compliance, communications, and operations teams to ensure effective execution and resolution of programmatic issues.
• Supervises and mentors project managers and program staff, including oversight of workload planning, prioritization, staff development, and performance.
• Supports program reviews, technical interchange meetings, strategic planning sessions, portfolio assessments, and sponsor engagements.
• Helps define staffing needs, operating rhythms, reporting structures, and management controls for assigned portfolios or lines of effort.

Essential Functions for the Technical SME Role

• Provides advanced technical guidance and subject matter expertise across complex government, industrial base, manufacturing, or research and development efforts.
• Supports technical planning, implementation, technology insertion, evaluation, transition, and stakeholder engagement across one or more assigned efforts.
• Contributes to technical interchanges, sponsor-facing discussions, and performer coordination to support execution of technically complex work.
• Supports implementation of design or process changes in production or shipyard settings, including evaluation of technical feasibility, manufacturability, and transition considerations, as applicable.
• Applies advanced technical judgment to support problem solving, risk management, and execution improvement across relevant mission or industrial base domains.
• Serves as a Project Technical Representative or comparable technical representative on pertinent projects, as needed.

Additional Responsibilities

• May serve in a Deputy Director or comparable leadership support role.
• May backfill the Technical Director or other senior leadership, as needed, for internal and external meetings.
• Supports business development, opportunity shaping, proposal planning, and customer engagement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and eight or more related years of experience or equivalent combination of experience and training, or a Master’s degree and six or more related years of experience or equivalent combination of experience and training. A degree in Engineering, Science, Supply Chain, Technical Program Management, or a related field is preferred.

Project and process management experience is required. PMP certification is viewed favorably but is not required. Experience with government programs is viewed favorably but is not required.

Strong communication skills, including presentations, technical reports, meeting management, and group management, are required.

Strong computer skills, including intermediate to advanced Excel skills and proficiency in MS Office Suite—Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project—are desired.

For program leadership assignments, demonstrated experience managing complex programs or portfolios, supervising project managers, and coordinating across technical, contractual, and financial functions is required.

For technical SME assignments, demonstrated experience providing advanced technical expertise, implementation support, technical evaluation, or technology transition support across complex government, industrial base, manufacturing, or research and development efforts is highly desirable.

Specific Skillsets of Interest

Experience includes shipbuilding, implementing design or process changes in production or shipyard settings, submarine industrial base initiatives, manufacturing technology development and implementation, strategic outsourcing, supplier development, supply chain management, and workforce development or technical training programs.

Additional desirable technical experience includes one or more of the following domains: robotics and automated manufacturing systems; additive manufacturing; materials and processes, including composites, metals, and ceramics; design and structural analysis; digital manufacturing ecosystems, including digital twin and digital thread; AI/ML; modeling and simulation; welding engineering; systems engineering; and inspection technologies or nondestructive testing methods such as ultrasonic inspection and digital radiography, particularly in naval manufacturing environments. A technical advanced degree in these fields is also highly desirable.

Experience supporting Other Transaction Authority/Other Transaction Agreement projects, prototype efforts, or industrial base investment portfolios is viewed favorably. Experience collaborating with Navy program offices, major shipbuilders, OEMs, and multi-organizational project teams is similarly valued.

Additional Requirements

Ability to travel to conferences, shipyards, industrial facilities, customer sites, supplier locations, and meetings is required. Weekend travel is very infrequent; however, it may be needed to support client needs for an early Monday or late Friday event.

This position will need the ability to access U.S.-only data systems—U.S. Citizenship is required and/or the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance may be required.

This position is subject to a background check that includes a review of criminal records. In reviewing an applicant’s criminal history, the company will consider prior criminal convictions that have a relationship to the job duties and responsibilities of the position. The company considers the nature of the crime, the time that has elapsed since the crime, and the job duties for the position at issue in making an individualized determination. Individuals may be excluded when the company determines, based on the above factors, that hiring, transferring, or promoting the applicant would pose an unreasonable risk to the business, its employees, or its customers and vendors.

If you are a qualified candidate, we encourage you to apply even if you have prior criminal conviction(s). Convictions will not automatically disqualify a candidate. However, conviction(s) will be considered and balanced against the age of the candidate at the time of the offense, time elapsed since the offense, type of offense, potential impacts on the work environment, sensitivity of the position(s) available/sought, and similar independent factors relevant to the employment requirements at ATI.

Must be either a U.S. Citizen by birth or naturalization.

Must successfully pass a background to access sensitive information and automated systems.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Regular physical activity to include walking, bending, stooping, reaching, standing and prolonged sitting.

Ability to speak, read, hear, and write, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Ability to use phone and computer systems, copier, fax, and other office equipment.

Must be able to occasionally move/lift up to 25 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.

Work Environment

This position is located in an air-conditioned, environmentally controlled atmosphere, and occasionally attend meetings in technology company environments.

Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

ATI is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities and all other protected classes.

Anticipated starting salary is in range commensurate with education and experience:

$125,000 - $140,000

Benefits

Benefits ATI has been named "Best Places to Work in SC" from 2017-2026.

• This is a full-time opportunity with benefits
• ATI provides Medical, Dental and Vision Plan options
• Flexible Spending Accounts, including health and dependent care accounts
• 403B Retirement Savings plan with a very competitive company contribution
• Personal time-off (pre-loaded & accrued) plus 12 paid holiday-days
• Life Insurance paid by ATI
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Coverage paid by ATI
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Flexible work schedules

ATI's standard business hours are Monday-Friday, between 8 AM - 5 PM.