Remote Maritime Training Program Lead

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 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.