McCallie Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Alutiiq, LLC, is accepting applications for a Senior Program / Operations Manager to lead contractor support for one of the U.S. Space Force's most strategically important mission areas: missile warning, tracking, and defense. You will sit at Space Systems Command's Space Sensing directorate at Los Angeles AFB, leading a multi-disciplinary team of aerospace, electrical, electronics, and industrial engineers supporting the acquisition, development, and sustainment of next-generation missile warning satellite and ground systems - including Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) and modernization of Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) capabilities.
This is the senior contractor leadership position on the mission area and will be the day-to-day face of the contractor team to the Government Mission Director, the integrator across 30+ engineers and analysts, and the accountable manager for performance, cost, schedule, and personnel decisions. The mission is operationally significant: the systems your team supports are how the United States detects, tracks, and characterizes ballistic missile and hypersonic threats globally, in real time, 24/7.
- Lead the contractor team supporting a Space Force missile warning mission area; integrate engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and acquisition support across multiple satellite and ground programs
- Serve as the senior contractor point of contact for the Government Mission Director, Division Chief, Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), and Contracting Officer
- Manage workforce assignment, surge support, leave coverage, and personnel substitutions; maintain workforce stability and minimize turnover impact
- Participate in and lead Government program reviews, technical interchange meetings, integrated product team (IPT) sessions, and working groups
- Provide senior input to Space Force planning and budgeting cycles, including Program Objective Memorandum (POM) exercises, annual POM updates, execution and spend plan reviews, and out-year funding profile development
- Optimize cross-program resource use - direct functional experts across multiple missile warning programs to maximize cost, schedule, and performance efficiency
- Forecast, manage, and control task order costs including travel, ODCs, and labor utilization
- Oversee preparation and quality of monthly status reports, trip reports, and the data accession list; lead corrective action on any non-conforming deliverables
- Manage subcontractor relationships and work distribution; ensure no organizational conflicts of interest; enforce non-disclosure agreements
- Verify all team personnel maintain required clearances, CAC access, and information system compliance
- Lead phase-in transition and onboarding for the mission area; execute weekly transition reviews during the first three months of performance
This opportunity is for a POTENTIAL CONTRACT award and is contingent upon the contract being awarded. Consideration for a potential contract may require a signed letter of intent. If the contract is awarded, another position posting will be available on the Company Careers portal.