Senior Manufacturing and Industrial Base SME

Position Title: Senior Manufacturing and Industrial Base SME

Location: Arlington, Virginia

Category: Contingent/Awaiting funding

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time

Travel Required: Yes

Shift: Day

Remote Type: Hybrid

Clearance required: Top Secret clearance required

Salary: $175,000 - $190,000

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Manufacturing and Industrial Base SME to provide senior manufacturing, capacity, facility, tooling, workforce, quality, and industrial-base expertise to validate constraints and design executable interventions.

Responsibilities:

Manufacturing and Production Assessment:

Assess manufacturing processes, production flow, capacity, throughput, cycle time, work in process, yield, quality, equipment utilization, test capability, and schedule performance for assigned programs.

Identify and validate constraints involving material, labor, tooling, equipment, facilities, engineering, quality, test, planning, and lower-tier suppliers.

Evaluate current and planned production rates, surge potential, capacity-expansion proposals, recovery schedules, and readiness to meet Navy demand.

Apply manufacturing and operational judgment to distinguish symptoms from root causes and determine which constraints have the greatest effect on weapon-system deliveries.

Industrial Base and Supplier Analysis:

Analyze prime contractor and supplier capabilities, critical dependencies, sole-source exposure, long-lead materials, obsolescence, workforce limitations, and other sources of industrial fragility.

Assess how infrastructure, capital equipment, technology, qualification requirements, market conditions, demand stability, and supplier economics affect production performance.

Support supplier and production-site engagements, data reviews, interviews, and working sessions with program offices, industry, DCMA, and other authorized stakeholders.

Evaluate industry assertions, supplier recovery plans, investment requests, alternate-source strategies, and manufacturing-improvement proposals against available evidence.

Identify opportunities for process improvement, supplier development, workforce action, technology adoption, alternate sourcing, infrastructure modernization, or targeted investment.

Advisory and Implementation Support:

Serve as a senior manufacturing and industrial-base advisor to the BOND team for assigned PAE and weapon-system priorities.

Integrate manufacturing findings with supplier, schedule, cost, investment, engineering, acquisition, and program data to develop executable recommendations.

Develop recovery actions, implementation roadmaps, owners, milestones, performance measures, risk indicators, and escalation criteria.

Prepare and present executive briefings, industrial assessments, alternatives analyses, issue papers, site-visit findings, and decision memoranda to PAEs and senior DASN DIB leaders.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in engineering, manufacturing, industrial technology, operations management, supply chain, business, or a related discipline.

10+ years’ experience in defense manufacturing, production operations, industrial-base analysis, supplier management, engineering, or a closely related field.

Demonstrated experience assessing manufacturing capability, capacity, production flow, quality, schedule, and root causes of performance shortfalls.

Experience evaluating prime contractor or supplier operations and developing practical recovery, capacity, investment, or process-improvement recommendations.

Strong knowledge of manufacturing measures such as capacity, throughput, cycle time, work in process, yield, utilization, downtime, quality, and delivery performance.

Experience leading cross-functional analysis and communicating technical and operational findings to senior Government and industry leaders.

Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Benefits:

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance

Company Paid Short-Term Disability

Voluntary Long-Term Disability

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401K with employer match

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Military Leave

Education, Training & Professional Development

Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care

Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.

If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.