Job Description Position Summary
BAE Systems is seeking a Programmatic Analyst to support the Preventive Maintenance Management Program (PMMP) team in developing, maintaining, and modernizing programmatic maintenance documentation for a high-visibility, U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) environment.
The selected candidate will support the development and sustainment of controlled program documentation, including Operating Documents, SSP Instructions, CONOPs, program plans, work instructions, requirements matrices, decision logs, action tracker, risk logs, and stakeholder coordination packages.
This role is ideal for a strong analyst and technical writer who can organize complex programs, policy, technical, and stakeholder inputs into clear, structure, traceable, and audit-ready documentation.
Experience with PMMP, Navy 3-M, SKED, SSP, SWS/AWS processes is highly desired, but the primary requirement is the ability to support programmatic documentation, governance, coordination, and requirements traceability.
Key Responsibilities
Programmatic Documentation Support
Develop, revise, and maintain formal program documentation supporting PMMP execution, modernization and lifecycle sustainment.
Documentation may include:- Operating Documents
- SSP Instructions
- CONOPs
- Program Plans
- Work Instructions
- Process guides
- Requirements traceability matrices
- Decision logs
- Action item trackers
- Risk and issue logs
- Leadership briefing material
Ensure documentation is clear, structured, consistent, and suitable for internal review, customer coordination, and formal routing.
Policy and Governance Support
Assist in documenting program roles, responsibilities, handoffs, approval paths, process controls, and sustainment requirements.
Support updates to program guidance where current processes, future-state processes, customer directions, technical inputs, or stakeholder decision required clarification.
Help ensure program documentation supports repeatable execution, traceability, configuration discipline, and defensible decision-making.
Requirements Capture and Traceability
Capture, organize, and maintain requirements from source documents, stakeholder comments, meeting outcomes, customer direction, and technical inputs.
Support traceability between:- Current-state PMMP processes
- Future-state process updates
- ODs and SSPINST changes
- Stakeholder decisions
- Action items
- Risks and issues
- Validation and verification artifacts
- Final approved documentation
- Maintain requirements and decision records in a manner that supports auditability and long-term program sustainment.
Stakeholder Coordination and Working Group Support
Support PMMP and SSP leadership in coordinating internal and external stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities may include:- Preparing meeting agendas
- Capturing meeting minutes
- Tracking action items
- Maintaining decision logs
- Coordinating stakeholder comments
- Supporting comment adjudication
- Preparing status updates
- Following up on open actions
- Supporting formal review cycles
- The candidate must be able to communicate professionally across technical teams, program office stakeholders, Navy representatives, support contractors, and internal leadership.
Process Improvement and Gap Analysis
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, overlaps, or unclear requirements across program documentation, process guidance, stakeholder inputs, and maintenance governance artifacts.
Support recommendations for improvement:- Process clarity
- Documentation quality
- Requirements traceability
- Stakeholder accountability
- Review and approval discipline
- Program execution controls
- Lifecycle sustainment
- Assist in developing mitigation approaches when gaps require process changes, documentation updates, customer decisions, or phased implementation.
Analytical and Reporting Support
Use structure analysis to support program decisions, documentation updates, and leadership visibility.
Support may include:- Excel-based tracking and reconciliation
- Requirements matrices
- Comment matrices
- Status trackers
- Discrepancy logs
- Metrics summaries
- Trend summaries
- Risk and issue tracking
- PowerPoint briefing support
- Leadership-ready summaries
Our organization has supported the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) continually since the program’s inception in the 1950s. SSP developed the first sea-based, underwater-launched Strategic Weapon System (SWS), a defense system that is truly critical to our national security. For more than six decades, SSP has maintained and upgraded this weapon system, and we have been there every step of the way. The sea-based SWS is the ultimate stealthy weapon system and is the first leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. With over 70 of our nation’s nuclear arsenal its importance to maintaining world peace cannot be overstated. The development of Columbia, the most advanced nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarine ever designed, as well the next D5LE2 weapon system is under way and will begin to be rolled out over the next decade. The Navy projects this system to be operational through 2084, meaning the program will have a total life span of more than 120 years. This is a unique program and BAE Systems employees on this program understand they are part of an important legacy.
As a decades long sole source partner on multiple contracts on behalf of our customer, our program has remarkable stability and is concurrently experiencing significant growth. Combined, these factors provide ample opportunity for professional growth and development for capable and talented individuals on our team.
BAE Systems, Inc. is the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc.
BAE Systems plc provides some of the worlds most advanced, technology-led defense, aerospace, and security solutions. As one of the top ten defense contractors, we employ a skilled workforce of around 100,000 people in more than 40 countries. We develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to protect national security and keep people safe.
