YOU WILL: • Establish and maintain relationships with program sponsors, stakeholders, and program teams to provide status updates and identifying emerging needs for manufacturing challenges in DoD systems • Author program management plans, project demonstration plans, and/or comprehensive final reports that satisfy customer requirements and expectations for manufacturing interest areas • Develop long term strategy for manufacturing research activities then execute business development functions to promote and advance manufacturing research programs consistent with the long-term strategy • Serve as the primary contact with the direct sponsor to create and status the project portfolio managing business, work process and technical aspects and ensuring the successful and timely completion of contract deliverables • Prepare and present portfolio status and plans as briefings and reports to a variety of audiences. Higher-level responsibilities include: • Lead new concept development and create measurable project plans for new projects with internal and external stakeholders that provide a return to the government stakeholders • Develop and maintain a vision for manufacturing technology efforts • Maintain working familiarity with leading edge technology and manufacturing techniques then propose applications to military platforms and subsystems to lower cost, improve delivery times, or accelerate/enhance capability • Ability to manage business aspects of a manufacturing research project portfolio • Critically review project or task execution analyzing alternatives and applying engineering and project management techniques and procedures.