Project Manager - TS/SCI Clearance

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

The Project Manager supports the Program Manager in planning, integrating, executing, monitoring, and controlling complex technical projects for federal Government customers. The role provides cross-functional leadership across collocated, geographically dispersed, and virtual teams, coordinating work involving IT, C4ISR/C4I, ICT infrastructure, networks, desktop deployment, logistics, engineering, quality, safety, cybersecurity, procurement, and other disciplines. The Project Manager translates contractual and customer requirements into executable plans, priorities, schedules, resource requirements, and measurable deliverables, and helps ensure project objectives are achieved within contractual scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and performance requirements. Working with the Program Manager, functional and technical leads, subcontractors, corporate support organizations, and Government stakeholders, the Project Manager establishes priorities, coordinates resources, manages dependencies and risks, resolves impediments, and maintains project alignment. The role uses predictive, Agile, or hybrid project-management practices, including Scrum and Kanban/Scrumban, and supports transparency, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. It also supports workforce planning, project financial and operational reporting, logistics, contract deliverables, quality and safety activities, subcontractor integration, and customer communication. The position must be able to obtain and maintain the customer clearance required for access to systems, facilities, equipment, and property, including eligibility for Top Secret/SCI classified information.

Requirements

Ability to obtain, maintain, and access classified information at the Top Secret/SCI level; U.S. citizenship is required.
Must possess the level of certifications required for the position by the contract.
Demonstrated project-management experience supporting complex technical, IT, ICT, telecommunications, C4ISR/C4I, infrastructure, or related programs.
Experience leading and integrating cross-functional teams, including geographically dispersed or virtual personnel.
Experience coordinating scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, risk, issues, dependencies, and customer requirements.
Ability to work effectively with technical leads, functional managers, subcontractors, corporate organizations, and Government stakeholders.
Experience with project operations and logistics, such as resource coordination, material requirements, procurement interfaces, equipment accountability, warehousing, deployment, installation, sustainment, or retrograde activities.
Working knowledge of traditional, Agile, and hybrid project-management methodologies.
Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Management, or a related field, and at least five years of relevant project-management experience; an equivalent combination of relevant education, certification, military service, and progressively responsible experience may be considered.
Experience coordinating multiple functional disciplines and leading personnel through direct, matrixed, cross-functional, subcontractor, or virtual team structures.
May be required to pass pre-employment screening, including background and drug testing.
Ability to meet the physical demands described, including regularly sitting, using hands, reaching, speaking and hearing; occasionally standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; frequently lifting or moving up to 10 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds; and meeting specified vision requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Government contracting, Department of Defense programs, or other federal programs.
Supervisory, team-lead, or cross-functional management experience.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Agile certification or demonstrated Agile experience, such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe certification, or equivalent.
CompTIA Security+ certification for projects involving DoD information systems, cybersecurity requirements, or technical infrastructure.
BICSI Registered Telecommunications Project Manager (RTPM) certification for ICT or telecommunications infrastructure projects.
AVIXA Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) certification for projects involving integrated audiovisual or related technology systems.
Advanced education such as an MBA, an MS in Information Technology with a Project Management concentration, or a related graduate degree.
Prior U.S. military service or comparable experience supporting military or DoD organizations, when it provides relevant leadership, operational planning, technical, logistics, or mission-support experience.

Responsibilities

Manage day-to-day tactical duties and operational leadership for a moderately complex technical program or project within guidelines established by the Program Manager and customer.
Oversee the results of multifunctional project teams and promote safe work practices and implementation of company safety programs.
Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, risk, issues, dependencies, and customer requirements.
Collaborate with the Program Manager to plan, organize, integrate, execute, monitor, and control technical project activities throughout the project life cycle.
Lead cross-functional and geographically dispersed or virtual teams, establishing communication mechanisms, operating rhythms, priorities, responsibilities, dependencies, and escalation paths.
Review contracts, task orders, statements of work, project plans, technical requirements, proposals, schedules, budgets, staffing requirements, and available resources.
Translate contractual requirements and Government priorities into project activities, milestones, work packages, assignments, acceptance criteria, and deliverables.
Develop, maintain, and monitor integrated project plans and schedules, coordinating dependencies among functional teams, subcontractors, Government stakeholders, and other participants.
Apply predictive, Agile, or hybrid project-management methods, including Scrum, Kanban/Scrumban, sprint or iteration planning, backlog management, daily coordination, work visualization, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
Facilitate project reviews, planning meetings, stand-ups, sprint reviews, risk and issue reviews, and other coordination forums.
Establish and monitor performance measures; identify trends, constraints, risks, resource conflicts, quality concerns, and improvement opportunities.
Maintain risk, issue, action, and decision-management processes, including analysis, assignment, tracking, communication, mitigation, and escalation.
Support project schedules, cost information, staffing plans, resource forecasts, status reports, dashboards, job-cost analysis, budget monitoring, forecasting, and resource-utilization analysis.
Coordinate logistics and project operations, including material planning, procurement interfaces, receiving, warehousing, inventory, staging, transportation, deployment, installation support, property accountability, and retrograde activities.
Integrate logistics requirements with technical schedules to ensure equipment, materials, tools, personnel, access, and other resources are available when needed.
Maintain relationships with Government customers and stakeholders through transparent communication, responsive problem solving, accurate reporting, and execution of contractual requirements.
As authorized, serve as a primary or alternate project-management interface with Government contracting and project representatives, including Contracting Officers and CORs.
Support the preparation, review, administration, and timely submission of contract deliverables and required data items.
Coordinate technical execution with engineering and functional leadership while respecting distinctions among project-management authority, technical authority, and Government direction.
Assist with the project's Quality Management/Quality Control Plan and coordinate monitoring of deficiencies, corrective actions, rework, inspections, testing, acceptance criteria, and lessons learned.
Support project safety requirements, meetings, reviews, and corrective-action activities.
Assist the Program Manager with personnel leadership and workforce planning, including staffing analysis, recruiting, interviewing, selection, onboarding, performance management, professional development, succession planning, and workforce transitions.
Evaluate staffing levels and skill mixes and coordinate personnel requirements with Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, functional leadership, and subcontractors.
Integrate subcontractors and coordinate their activities with project priorities, schedules, quality and technical requirements, and customer expectations.
Assist with RFPs, RFQs, ROM proposals, task-order responses, estimates, basis-of-estimate development, staffing models, technical approaches, schedules, and other assigned business-development or contract-growth activities.
Implement and improve project-management tools, methodologies, procedures, workflows, dashboards, lessons learned, and management controls.
Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, cross-training, accountability, and continuous improvement across teams and organizations.
Perform project responsibilities with increasing independence while keeping the Program Manager informed of significant risks, issues, customer concerns, contractual matters, resource constraints, and decisions requiring higher-level authority.
Mentor, train, and coach contract partner staff on effective project management.
Document, analyze, and escalate risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations to Government customers and internal or external stakeholders.
Work with corporate shared services to support corporate employees and customer demand signals.
Coordinate documentation with contract partners, including test results, meeting minutes, monthly status reports, and other contract deliverables.