Sr Program Manager, Marine Corps Operations and Growth

Hbcu Connect, Llc; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Senior Program Manager for Marine Corps Operations and Growth to lead programs, manage cost, schedule, and technical performance, and translate warfighter priorities into integrated solutions. The role requires collaboration across customers, programs, capture teams, and technical organizations to deliver value.

The initial emphasis will leverage TECOM and training-enterprise experience, with a broader Marine Corps and joint-service mandate. Travel up to 25% is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and substantial senior leadership experience in Marine Corps or defense programs.
• 15+ years of experience and demonstrated leadership of complex multi‑function programs.
• Working knowledge of Marine Corps missions, TECOM experience preferred.
• Ability to support capture, proposal activities and translate needs into concepts.
• Executive communication, relationship-building, planning and leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned Marine Corps program with accountability for cost, schedule, tech performance and staff.
• Develop Marine Corps growth plan centered on TECOM and training, readiness, ranges, simulation.
• Contribute to capture teams, shaping proposals, and executive briefings.
• Build relationships across TECOM and other Marine Corps orgs to translate needs into opportunities.
• Position solutions across mission engineering, readiness analytics, training, digital engineering and logistics.
• Establish repeatable operating rhythm for customer needs, pipeline, capture actions, and leadership reporting.

Skills

Senior leadership experience

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Sr Program Manager, Marine Corps Operations and Growth

At KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

Senior Program Manager, Marine Corps Operations and Growth

We are seeking a senior operations and growth leader to help deliver mission-focused solutions that improve Marine Corps readiness, training, decision-making, and operational effectiveness. The Sr Program Manager will work across customers, programs, capture teams, and technical organizations to translate warfighter priorities into integrated, executable solutions. The initial emphasis will leverage deep TECOM and training-enterprise experience, while maintaining a broader Marine Corps and joint-service mandate. Success will be measured by the value delivered to the warfighter and by the sustainable funded work added to the program.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned Marine Corps program, task-order, transition, or work-package execution with accountability for cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, staffing, risk, security, subcontractors, customer outcomes, and financial performance.
• Develop and maintain a Marine Corps growth plan centered on TECOM while pursuing broader mission needs across training, readiness, ranges, simulation, experimentation, digital engineering, autonomy, logistics, sustainment, and force modernization.
• Serve as a core contributor to capture, within all applicable legal, ethics, procurement-integrity, recusal, and information-protection restrictions.
• Participate on capture and proposal teams, contributing customer understanding, operational concepts, management approaches, transition plans, staffing concepts, solution alignment, color-team reviews, and executive briefings.
• Build relationships across TECOM and other priority Marine Corps organizations, then translate mission needs into qualified opportunities and executable KBR solutions.
• Position KBR-Trinzic as a mission-focused solution provider by integrating capabilities across mission engineering, readiness analytics, training and simulation, digital engineering, cyber, data, autonomy, logistics, and sustainment around defined warfighter outcomes.
• Establish a repeatable operating rhythm for customer needs, solution development, pipeline, utilization, capture actions, program performance, mission outcomes, and leadership reporting.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and substantial senior leadership experience in Marine Corps, joint, defense, training, readiness, program, or mission operations; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of experience
• Demonstrated experience leading organizations, portfolios, programs, or complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Working knowledge of Marine Corps missions, organizations, acquisition or training environments, with direct TECOM experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to support capture and proposal activities and to translate customer needs into management, technical, staffing, transition, or solution concepts.
• Demonstrated executive communication, relationship-building, planning, decision-making, and team-leadership capability.
• Ability to travel up to 25% and maintain required U.S. Government security eligibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Senior Marine Corps civilian or military leadership experience involving ranges, training areas, simulations, simulators, LVC environments, training modernization, readiness, experimentation, or force development.
• Prior responsibility for enterprise strategy, operations, organizational transformation, resource prioritization, or major stakeholder alignment.
• Experience supporting competitive captures, proposals, program transitions, mobilizations, or first-100-day execution plans.
• Experience building partnerships across government, industry, academia, warfare centers, laboratories, or technology providers.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.