Hybrid Project Manager

at Leidos

• Job title: Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $92,300 - $166,850 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Huntsville, United States

About the role

• Project Manager supporting DPaaS in a leading global-scale multi-cloud environment. Managing large projects for the U.S. Air Force with a focus on system resiliency and security.

Responsibilities

• Support a Senior Program Manager in the leadership, execution, development, and growth of a program or programs
• Work with a multi-disciplined team of mechanical, software, electrical, and systems engineers
• Plan, coordinate and manage large projects
• Integrate all functions and activities necessary to perform the project/program to meet the client or customer requirements
• Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface
• Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions
• Provide strong, proactive and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects
• Make decisions at the project team level
• Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables
• Ensure that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards
• Ensure projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope
• Monitor and track project dependencies
• Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, and report monthly accruals
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates
• Actively monitor, track and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or other related discipline
• 8+ years of experience Or Masters degree with 6+ years of prior relevant experience
• Strong customer focus, ability to support team leadership, and establish strong, collaborative working relationships with government customers, sub-contractors, vendors, technical staff, senior managers, and peers
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience applying advanced concepts and principles of project management
• US Citizenship required
• Secret Security clearance
• Experience briefing and advising federal officials or military leadership
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement