Senior Operations Manager

Senior Operations Manager

Salary: $170k - $190k/yr.

Location: Tampa, FL (hybrid, 4 days in office, 1 day remote)

Industry: Department of Defense

Clearance: Ability to Obtain

Job Summary: The Senior Manager, Operations for the Technology & Product Development (TPD) group is responsible for coordinating essential daily activities driving successful execution for the entire TPD team. This role requires strategic coordination with the TPD engineering leadership team to ensure rapid delivery of innovative solutions to both customer programs and R&D.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (preferably Computer or Electrical), or Computer Science required.
• At least 10 years of experience in simulation and modeling or related industry.
• Leadership skills necessary to manage a small team, experience with Agile methodologies preferred.'
• Knowledge of Software Development and Integration, Systems Engineering, and hardware interfaces.
• Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities:

• General staffing manpower forecasts, supporting interview process, onboarding, coordination of program assignments with engineering leaders and program management.
• Responsible for all budgetary and forecasting tasks for all Defense & Security R&D projects globally and working with Finance team to maintain forecasts and provide timely reporting on actuals/forecast as required leveraging the company prescribed financial tools.
• Ensures customer programs, R&D projects and other supporting initiatives are effectively staffed and are executed to planned budgets.
• Closed coordination and effective communication with TPD Senior Director on relevant issues and status.
• Leads agile execution leveraging SAFe for all D&S R&D projects and customer programs staffed by the TPD team.
• Coordinate employee performance reviews with engineering leaders.
• Works with the rest of the TPD leadership team to enhance employee morale and retention rate.
• Responsible via delegation for supporting sales team via proposal writing, reviewing and BOE support.
• Facilitates project status reporting for all projects in execution in the TPD portfolio
• Along with the rest of the TPD leadership team, supports employees as a resource to eliminate roadblocks, answer questions, etc.
• Coordinating training plans (both corporate and technical) with engineering leaders and timely completions of corporate training tasks.
• Facilitate procurement needs for R&D projects.
• Effective delegation of tasks to N-1 team members to maximize team efficiency.
• Facilitates communication of TPD team accomplishments via TPD newsletter and other mechanisms projects.
• Staffing, planning, financial forecasting, employee training, communications, and logistics are all key duties for this role.

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