# Control Account Manager

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

The Tactical and Advanced Hypersonics Division of Leidos Defense is seeking a talented Control Account Manager to join the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile – Nuclear (SLCM-N) team. The successful candidate will lead discussions to define Control Account (CA) scope and decompose work into discrete, deliverable-oriented tasks.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Lead discussions to define Control Account (CA) scope and decompose work into discrete, deliverable-oriented tasks.

- Fully direct technical and functional resources to perform work and meet project objectives.

- Communicate and review staffing needs with functional managers across multiple product teams.

- Evaluate daily execution activities and metrics to ensure successful CA performance.

- Enter monthly inputs into the Leidos EVM tool(s), including IMS status, BCRs, ETCs, and VARs.

- Review and analyze EVM data (SPI/CPI/TCPI) and schedules (BEI/CEI) at the WP and CA levels.

- Review weekly labor reports to validate actual costs incurred versus baseline and forecast.

- Review, approve, and disseminate Control Account Work Authorizations (CAWA) throughout the program lifecycle.

- Generate timely Estimates to Complete (ETC) and write formal cost and schedule recovery plans.

- Manage risks, identify opportunities at the CA level, and work with the IPT on mitigation strategies.

- Support the PMO in identifying and mitigating cost, schedule, and technical risks.

- Develop business cases for the Change Control Board and assess supply chain vulnerability for contemplated changes.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- BA degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience.

- Demonstrated track record in a prior Control Account Manager (CAM) or Earned Value Management (EVM) role.

- Experience developing, maintaining, and tracking the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).

- Direct experience validating actual costs, generating Estimates to Complete (ETC), and forecasting Estimates at Completion (EAC).

- Knowledge of compliance and customer reporting standards, including IPMR and IPMDAR.

- Mastery of baseline change control processes (BCRs), monthly schedule status processes, and the work authorization process (CAWAs).

- Ability to conduct root-cause analysis, develop variance rationale, and implement formal cost/schedule recovery plans.

- Proven ability to partner with multiple program functions to protect cost and schedule baselines.

- Experience coordinating near-term schedules and execution plans directly with Manufacturing.

- Experience integrating EVMS with risk management and supporting proposal or business development activities.

- Proven capability to perform effectively both independently and within a collaborative team environment.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical, Computer, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline from an ABET-accredited institution.

- Strong understanding of engineering lifecycle processes (systems engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering, hardware integration and production).

- Ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or externally) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project, serving as a primary briefer on Cost, Schedule, Performance, IBRs, EVM reviews and other program control events inside the Program and for Leidos leadership.

- Experience supporting complex defense programs, particularly with the U.S. Army or Navy

## Skills

### Required
- Earned Value Management
- Integrated Master Schedule
- Performance Measurement Baseline
- Work Breakdown Structures
- Cost management
- Schedule management
- Risk management

### Nice to have
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Engineering lifecycle processes
- Executive leadership communication

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