Project Manager - TS/SCI Clearance

Chickasaw Nation Industries•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 manages day-to-day project operations and helps ensure delivery within contractual scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and performance requirements. The Project Manager translates customer and contractual requirements into executable plans, priorities, schedules, resource needs, and measurable deliverables, while coordinating dependencies, risks, issues, and resources across project teams and stakeholders. The position provides cross-functional leadership across collocated, geographically dispersed, and virtual teams. Work may involve IT, C4ISR/C4I, ICT infrastructure, networks, desktop deployment, logistics, engineering, quality, safety, cybersecurity, procurement, and other disciplines. The Project Manager works with the Program Manager, technical and functional leads, subcontractors, corporate support organizations, and Government stakeholders. The role applies predictive, Agile, and hybrid project-management approaches, including Scrum and Kanban/Scrumban, and supports continuous improvement and effective collaboration throughout the project life cycle. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain customer clearance for access to systems, facilities, equipment, and property, including Top Secret/SCI access. Work is primarily performed in an office environment, though work may also occur in a factory, machine shop, or construction environment. The role involves regular computer use and occasional physical activity and lifting.

Requirements

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; or an equivalent combination of relevant education, professional certification, military service, and progressively responsible experience.
Ability to obtain, maintain, and access classified information at the Top Secret/SCI level; U.S. citizenship is required.
Must possess the appropriate 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 project 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.
Demonstrated 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 stated physical demands, with reasonable accommodations available as described in the posting.

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, including 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, particularly relevant leadership, operational planning, technical, logistics, or mission-support experience.
Relevant military leadership and technical experience considered as part of the candidate's overall education and experience.

Responsibilities

Manage day-to-day tactical duties for a moderately complex technical program and oversee results of multifunctional project teams.
Provide administrative and operational leadership for a project within guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer.
Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, and performance, and provide financial and operational reporting.
Coordinate resource managers and supervisors and ensure necessary reviews and approvals are obtained.
Plan, organize, integrate, execute, monitor, and control technical project activities across the project life cycle in collaboration with the Program Manager.
Lead and integrate technical and business functions, including infrastructure, networks, cybersecurity, engineering, logistics, procurement, quality, safety, finance, contracts, and administrative support.
Coordinate collocated, geographically dispersed, and virtual teams; establish communication mechanisms, operating rhythms, priorities, responsibilities, dependencies, and escalation paths.
Review contracts, task orders, statements of work, 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 and coordinate dependencies among teams, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders.
Apply appropriate predictive, Agile, or hybrid practices, including Scrum, Kanban/Scrumban, iteration planning, backlog management, daily coordination, work visualization, and retrospectives.
Facilitate project reviews, planning meetings, stand-ups, sprint reviews, risk and issue reviews, and other coordination forums.
Establish and monitor project performance measures; identify trends, constraints, risks, resource conflicts, quality concerns, and improvement opportunities.
Maintain risk, issue, action, and decision processes, including identification, analysis, assignment, tracking, communication, mitigation, and escalation.
Support project schedules, cost information, staffing plans, resource forecasts, status reports, dashboards, and other management-control information.
Perform or support job-cost analysis, budget monitoring, forecasting, resource utilization analysis, and other financial-management activities.
Coordinate material planning, procurement interfaces, receiving, warehousing, inventory, staging, transportation, deployment, installation support, property accountability, and retrograde activities as applicable.
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 program representatives.
Support preparation, review, administration, and timely submission of contract deliverables and required data items.
Coordinate technical execution with engineering and functional leadership while respecting the distinction between project-management authority, technical authority, and Government direction.
Assist in developing and improving the project's Quality Management/Quality Control Plan; coordinate monitoring of deficiencies, corrective actions, inspections, testing, acceptance, and lessons learned.
Support project safety requirements and participate in safety 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, 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.
Support subcontractor integration and coordinate subcontractor 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 contract-growth activities.
Improve project-management tools, methodologies, procedures, workflows, dashboards, lessons learned, and management controls.
Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, cross-training, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Perform responsibilities with increasing independence while keeping the Program Manager informed of significant risks, issues, customer concerns, contractual matters, resource constraints, and decisions requiring higher 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.