Remote Maritime Training Program Lead

Harkcon, Inc.; Silver Spring (MD); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role focuses on coordinating schedules, personnel, risks, deliverables, and performance data to improve qualification progress and sustained job performance. The successful candidate will manage a distributed, primarily remote team with occasional on-site work at facilities in Washington, DC, and Yorktown, VA, and must be able to

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.

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

Stakeholder coordination

Facilitation

Analytical writing

Customer service

Education

Four-year degree in Engineering or Business

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. seeks 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, personnel, risks, deliverables, and performance data to improve qualification progress and sustained job performance. The successful candidate will manage a distributed, primarily remote team with occasional on-site work at facilities in Washington, DC, and Yorktown, VA, and must be able to