Senior Facilities Program Manager (52620)

Gap Solutions • Rockville, MD

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About The Position

Provide senior project and program management for complex NIAID facility, infrastructure, laboratory, renovation, relocation, and workplace initiatives. This role involves planning and managing various facility-related projects, ensuring operational continuity, and preparing comprehensive reports and documentation. The position requires strong leadership and technical skills to support diverse mission-critical environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an accepted combination of directly relevant education and experience consistent with the contractual labor category.
• Minimum 11-13 years of related experience supporting a variety of projects, appropriate to the assigned PM level.
• Experience with facility infrastructure and building systems.
• Experience with laboratory, clinical, animal research, data center, administrative, or comparable environments.
• Demonstrated project scheduling skills.
• Demonstrated risk management skills.
• Demonstrated stakeholder coordination skills.
• Demonstrated customer-service skills.
• Demonstrated written communication skills.
• Demonstrated executive-presentation skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required Government credentials and facility access.

Nice To Haves

• 20 years of relevant experience, including direct NIH/NIAID OWS program and facility support.
• Civil engineering background.
• Construction estimating background.
• Executive management background.
• Project management training.
• Certified ScrumMaster or comparable credential.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage facility-related projects, including infrastructure, renovations, relocations, occupancy, workplace modernization, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain schedules, milestones, dependencies, action logs, budgets, estimates, and project documentation.
• Coordinate scientific, administrative, facilities, architecture/engineering, IT, vendor, and other stakeholders; facilitate and document meetings.
• Monitor project status, resources, risks, issues, scope, schedule, cost, quality, and performance; recommend mitigation and corrective action.
• Provide technical support for laboratory, clinical, animal research, data center, office, and other mission-critical environments while maintaining operational continuity.
• Prepare status reports, risk registers, change records, technical analyses, executive briefings, presentations, data-call responses, and closeout reports.
• Support CAD drawings, space planning studies, relocation plans, customer engagement, and decision-support products as assigned.
• Ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, professional, current, and compliant with Government requirements and applicable federal facility practices.
• Direct multidisciplinary project teams and apply earned-value, schedule, and performance-management methods to identify gaps and implement corrective action.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior