Senior PM - Distributed Build & New Construction

Gulf Copper; Galveston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Gulf Copper in Galveston, TX seeks a Senior Program Manager for Distributed Build & New Construction to lead growing shipbuilding-related programs, starting with HII distributed-build and expanding to ASC and US new-build activities.

You will strengthen project management capabilities, manage schedules, risks, and interface with HII, suppliers, and internal teams, while ensuring ITAR compliance and effective program controls across multi-organizational programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, PM, Construction Management or related field.
• Significant project-management experience in a complex industrial environment (e.g., shipbuilding, marine construction, defense, aerospace, heavy manufacturing, or oil & gas).
• Must be a US Citizen eligible to work in the United States and eligible to access ITAR-controlled information.
• Demonstrated experience managing integrated schedules, risks, project controls, and multi-organizational project interfaces.
• PMP certification; prior shipbuilding/NAVSEA/USCG/HII experience; background in modular construction, ERP systems, or digital project-control tools.

Responsibilities

• Establish a clear program baseline and monitor actual progress against planned progress.
• Identify schedule slippage, emerging risks, and drive timely resolution of outstanding issues.
• Coordinate interfaces between work packages, organizations, and support regular program reviews.
• Identify resource constraints, support recovery plans for at-risk milestones, and implement lessons learned.
• Develop and implement IMS, short-term look-ahead schedules, and milestones tracking.
• Track progress, man-hours, and productivity metrics.
• Maintain risk/opportunity registers, manage change controls, and perform cost/schedule impact assessments.
• Build management dashboards, conduct forecasting, and perform trend analysis.
• Review and enhance distributed-build processes in planning, production reporting, engineering/quality interfaces, document control, material control, and supply-chain interfaces.
• Improve non-conformance management, issue escalation paths, meeting structures, and project close-out procedures.
• Lead efforts to ensure ITAR requirements are properly incorporated into day-to-day project execution.
• Partner with compliance/legal teams to ensure project teams understand applicable ITAR restrictions.
• Identify ITAR-controlled information, equipment, drawings, and documentation, establishing proper access controls.
• Ensure appropriate separation of US-person and non-US person activities where required.
• Provide a US-based operational interface between US programs and the broader international/Finnish new-build organization.
• Translate international project requirements into practical US execution while maintaining ITAR boundaries.
• Develop project-management processes, construction readiness criteria, and organizational frameworks for future ASC construction in Texas.
• Support production planning, modular/distributed-build management, and integration between engineering, procurement, and production.

Skills

Program & schedule management

ITAR/export controls knowledge

Cross-functional communication

Data-driven / highly organized

Commercial awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Business/PM/Construction Management

PMP certification

Tools

ERP systems

Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) platforms

Data analytics tools

Digital project-control dashboards

Job description

Gulf Copper in Galveston, TX seeks a Senior Program Manager for Distributed Build & New Construction to lead growing shipbuilding-related programs, starting with HII distributed-build and expanding to ASC and US new-build activities.

You will strengthen project management capabilities, manage schedules, risks, and interface with HII, suppliers, and internal teams, while ensuring ITAR compliance and effective program controls across multi-organizational programs.