Research Project Manager – Injury Biomechanics

Chenega Corporation•Fort Rucker, AL

About The Position

Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services company, is hiring a Research Project Manager to support the Injury Biomechanics and Protection Group (IBPG) of the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL). The position provides scientific, programmatic, and technical support to help the group accomplish its mission responsively, with high quality and on time in a flexible and changing environment. The role calls for creativity and effective teamwork, as well as independent work with minimal direction. The manager coordinates and oversees injury biomechanics research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) projects, including human-subject research, research not involving human subjects, cadaveric studies, and testing and evaluation. The position supports project planning and execution, documentation, data and records management, budgets, schedules, reporting, and coordination among research teams and stakeholders. The work also involves drafting and editing scientific and technical materials, supporting research equipment and facilities, and collaborating with academia, industry, sponsors, customers, and other stakeholders. Research may involve equipment and field settings that can create potentially hazardous conditions. With written authorization from the Laboratory Commander, the employee may fly on military aircraft or ride in military vehicles while performing official duties. Travel within or outside the continental United States may be required for data collections, meetings, training, workshops, and conferences; multiple data collections or events are expected each year. Variable hours, including occasional nights and weekends, may be needed to meet project requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Five years of project or program management experience.
Experience managing projects or programs across project aims, performance, budget, and schedule.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures in injury biomechanics, medical research, and data management, and demonstrated experience managing related projects.
Ability to work independently with minimal to no direction to plan, coordinate, and accomplish individual and team goals.
Strong communication skills and professionalism.
Scientific and management skills applicable to projects intended to prevent Soldier injury and improve Soldier protection.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain a state-issued driver's license for independent travel to restricted meetings and field-data collection locations.
Ability to work variable hours, including occasional nights and weekends, to meet performance requirements.

Nice To Haves

Prior engineering experience in biomechanics or laboratory-based biomedical research environments is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide research and coordination services for Injury Biomechanics RDT&E efforts, including schedules, research plans, protocol documentation, data reviews, presentations, and publications in accordance with USAARL policies and procedures.
Organize, coordinate, and complete assigned projects, and oversee all aspects of projects assigned to research teams.
Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor project cost, schedule, performance, and risk, and prepare project-status reports for upper management.
Independently perform administrative and coordination duties based on Government guidance, taskers, objectives, and standard operating procedures, while using initiative to support research projects.
Coordinate administrative services to meet research project, grant, and program requirements and timelines.
Support research and test project needs of Injury Biomechanics principal investigators, the Injury Research Facilitator, and technical staff.
Suggest and implement improvements to administrative, project-coordination, and financial procedures.
Draft, format, and edit technical and scientific documents and presentations, and locate technical materials needed for them.
Compile responses to daily, weekly, and monthly taskers and prepare or compile project progress updates and reports in required formats.
Plan and communicate locations, times, schedules, and agendas for teleconferences, video teleconferences, meetings, and research-project visitors.
Ensure timely delivery of documents, data, and physical items to external collaborators, sponsors, and customers.
Develop work plans, budgets, and timelines from technical staff input, and track technical and financial progress against them.
Enter and update administrative, financial, and logistical information in spreadsheets and databases; create new spreadsheets and databases as needed; and identify data and research needs using available resources.
Oversee teams performing scientific, engineering, and medical data entry; metadata assignment; digitization of hard copies; digital-data management; archival copying; quality control; and related administrative tasks.
Support data, research equipment, and facilities, including packing, moving, shipping, inventory, relocation, and reorganization as needed.
Collaborate with stakeholders, academia, industry, and customers on biomechanical and biomedical projects, products, and knowledge solutions to support programmatic and scientific objectives.
Conduct injury biomechanics research using equipment and in field settings that may present potentially hazardous conditions.
Travel within or outside the continental United States for RDT&E data collections and relevant meetings, training, workshops, and conferences.
Perform other duties as assigned.