Assistant Program Manager

T-Solutions: Your Preferred Partner for Global Services and Innovative Solutions

At T-Solutions, we pride ourselves on being the company of choice for those seeking top-tier global services and innovative solutions. Our team comprises highly qualified and uniquely skilled professionals dedicated to delivering services with integrity. We are committed to excellence, enriching our clients, employees, and communities.

Who We Are

T-Solutions is a woman-owned, veteran-owned business based in Chesapeake, Virginia. We specialize in creating exceptional, responsive solutions to complex challenges for our global clients in government contracting. As an innovative and agile provider, we offer specialized technical solutions and a unique set of capabilities that support mission-critical operations and decision-making. Our expertise spans defense, security, maintenance engineering, logistics, and business transformation, ensuring our customers' success in today's dynamic environment. We align our core competencies with our customers' current and future needs, continually adapting emerging and proven technologies to enhance their capabilities.

Career Opportunity

We are currently seeking candidates for our Assistant Program Manager (APM) position located in Norfolk, VA. This position serves as T-Solution's manager for Port Engineering Program personnel in Norfolk, VA. The primary function of this role is to ensure Port Engineers and Combat System Port Engineers follow U.S. Navy maintenance policies as well as T-Solution policies and have the necessary knowledge and tools to do their jobs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Mentor Port Engineers
• Practice PE Standard Day
• Facilitate Peer Reviews
• Monitor PE Performance Metrics
  • Communicate issues, foster adoption of best practices and lessons learned with DPM, APMs, and PEs
• Participate in daily ship visits
• Communicate
  • Own initiatives and priorities of T-Solutions
  • Own initiatives and priorities of LSPEs
  • Provide input to DPM for CDRLs
  • Recognize BZs and employee successes
• Train
  • Encourage developmental training
• Attend performance-relevant Government meetings and required T-Solutions meetings
• Recruiting
• Supervise Port Engineers
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Timekeeping/Expense Reimbursement
  • Understand and resolve employee issues
  • Develop and research tools to improve the efficiency of PEs

Travel:

• This position includes quarterly travel to Fleet Concentration Support areas.
• Located at the waterfront near LSPEs.

Education, Knowledge, Experience, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• A Bachelor's degree in Management or an Engineering/Technical field
• Level III or higher PE/CSPE Certification or can be obtained within one year of employment
• Proficient in MST, VSB, NMD, eDFS, and Microsoft Office
• No less than 2 years as a U.S. Navy Port Engineer
• Performance metrics consistently above average
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or can be obtained within 9 months of employment
• Demonstrated organizational skills, initiative, and ability to work independently
• Excellent communication skills

Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret security clearance is highly desired; however, candidates eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance will be considered. The selected candidate will receive a contingent offer if they do not hold an active clearance. A start date will be established once a fully adjudicated Secret clearance is granted.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must possess a valid Driver's License.
• Must have reliable transportation to and from various work locations.
• Must maintain the capability to communicate with their supervisor or manager when not in the office. This includes using your equipment and services for business-related purposes. The compensation for this position includes incidental costs for work-related usage of your personal devices.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to traverse stairs, fixed ladders, and ladder wells frequently while walking ships daily.
• Wherewithal to spend several consecutive days at sea while underway as needed.
• Capable of sitting for long periods, standing, walking, crouching, and kneeling.
• Reaching, handling, using equipment, keyboards, and mobile devices.
• Lifting boxes (files and supplies) up to 20 lbs.

T-Solutions is proud to be an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

T-Solutions is proud to be a Veteran-Friendly Employer. It does not discriminate against qualified applicants because of their status as a protected veteran or their relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members.