Sr. Project Manager

Leidos•The Pentagon, VA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Sr. Project Manager for its Defense Group, which provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. The Project Management role will work with customers, project managers, internal task or functional staff, and support personnel to execute the AFNCR ITS Program Mission. The successful candidate will be able to work in a fast-paced environment that requires team interaction and coordination of efforts. The candidate will be accountable for prioritizing, planning, organizing, training, assessing, and managing resources to ensure that projects are executed within scope and time constraints. While part of a team environment, the Lead will also work individually and may assist other team members on moderately complex projects, tasks, or assignments. The candidate will work with the Project Management office on projects and activities, interface with DOD officials to coordinate, schedule, and manage discrete Peer Review projects, and engage with subject matter experts for assignments and monitoring work activities. This role involves leading projects from inception through delivery, coordinating all related functions, tasks, and schedule aspects, and ensuring all related resources across multiple task orders and functional, subcontractor, and related support organizations have defined tasking and meet project timelines. Primary tasks are related to achieving Leidos P&L responsibilities. The role requires coordinating all aspects of project content across various involved functions from initiation through project completion, providing hands-on efforts to characterize project content for input to appropriate organizations, and reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating task output for complete, correct, and compliant project submittals to the customer. The candidate will work with technical/programmatic subject matter experts to characterize project solutions for communication/charts for review and approval for submittal to Leidos customers. Day-to-day tasks require a hands-on, action-oriented individual, training and managing staff to manage workloads, while ensuring compliance with processes and procedures, as well as meeting project deadlines. The role involves managing projects to successful completion, meeting schedule deadlines, service levels, and performance targets, and participating in regular process improvement and quality initiatives, as well as special projects. The AFNCR Program is made up of 3 primary sites: JBA (Primary Site), JBAB, and the Pentagon; potential for occasional travel between the sites.

Requirements

BA/BS or equivalent experience and 10+ years of prior relevant experience or MA/MS with 8+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree.
Experience in team leadership role.
Significant experience in project operation/management type environment.
Demonstrated customer service in high volume, deadline focused environment.
Experience with process improvement and quality assurance activities.
Excellent problem-solving and customer service skills.
Analytical and critical thinking skills.
Strong communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Flexibility to manage shifting schedules and priorities.
Strong computer, Microsoft office skills (Outlook, Teams, MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel).
Active DoD Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

Requirement Analysis.
Internal and external customer interfacing skills.
Business Development.
Extensive knowledge of military organizations and prior experience working with the Air Force.
PMP Certification within 6 months.

Responsibilities

Interface with DOD officials to coordinate, schedule, and manage discrete Peer Review projects.
Engage with subject matter experts for assignments and monitoring work activities.
Lead projects from inception through delivery, coordinating all related functions, tasks and schedule aspects.
Ensure all related resources across multiple task order and functional, subcontractor and related support organizations have defined tasking, meet project timelines.
Coordinate all aspects of projects content across the various involved functions from initiation through project completion.
Provide hands-on efforts to characterize the projects content in preparation for input to the appropriate organizations to ensure complete end-to-end execution of the projects.
Review, analyze and evaluate task output for complete, correct and compliant project submittals to the customer.
Work with the technical/programmatic subject matter experts to characterize the project solutions for communication/charts for review and approval for submittal to Leidos customers.
Train and manage staff to manage workloads, while ensuring compliance with processes and procedures, as well as meeting project deadlines.
Manage projects to successful completion, meeting schedule deadlines, service levels, and performance targeted.
Participate in regular process improvement and quality initiatives.
Participate in and provide support for special projects.