Assistant Project Manager
$119,100–$119,100 year
On-siteAlexandria, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Maintain complete awareness of project status and risks, ensuring issues are escalated and communicated to leadership. Prepare, collate, and disseminate monthly status reports, meeting minutes, and briefings for the Project Manager and Government COR. Evaluate contractor deliverables for accuracy, assist with documentation of spend plans and fund allocation, and contribute to drafting Statements of Work and Systems Engineering Plans. Participate in technical design reviews, Program Management Reviews, and multi-disciplinary team meetings to monitor technical performance and support long-term planning. This role supports the TRMC's newly established hypersonic test infrastructure modernization effort. The position requires a Secret clearance with Top Secret eligibility and involves approximately 20% travel to worksites.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 8+ years of professional experience associated with project management, knowledge/data management, systems engineering, or similar
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills with elements of project management (Cost, Schedule, Performance, etc.)
- Experience as part of a multi-disciplinary project management team
- Experience supporting DoD projects
- Familiarity with project life cycle stages for technical projects (technology maturation and risk reduction, engineering design, manufacturing & construction, testing & commissioning, operations & sustainment)
- Demonstrated experience collecting, organizing, examining, and interpreting data to support performance management, problem solution, analysis of alternatives, and decision-making
- Experience developing, monitoring, improving organizational, procedural, and operational systems for effectiveness, efficiency, and conformance to established guidelines
- Experience participating in Risk, Issue, and Opportunity Management including planning, identification, analysis, control, and monitoring
- Demonstrated experience maintaining strong relationships with customers and contractors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience writing technical reports and briefings
- Familiarity with the structure of the U.S. DoD and Military Services
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office Software including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, OneNote, SharePoint, Teams
- A strong desire to learn and problem-solve
- Organized, detail-orientated, and able to multi-task
- Self-driven and able to work with limited direct supervision
- Currently hold an active secret security clearance
- U.S. CITIZENSHIP
- A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL WITH TOP SECRET ELIGIBILITY
- Travel approximately 20% of the year (~10 non-consecutive weeks) to performer worksites and offices to observe design, construction, commissioning, and operations activities, and participate in reviews and meetings
Desired Qualifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or equivalent
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with NARA and DoD Records Management policy and procedures
- FAR knowledge and experience with Government contracting. Previous contract specialist or similar
- Finance Management of contracts/projects
- Systems Engineering processes in the execution, or oversight of projects such as: Requirements Management, Risk Management, Technical Assessment, Configuration Management, Stakeholder Requirements Definition (operational requirements / CONOPS), Requirements Analysis (development, decomposition, traceability), Verification & Validation
- Familiarity with DoD acquisition cybersecurity requirements
- Experience writing statements of work, mission objectives, and performance-based requirements
- Experience writing and/or reviewing planning documents such as Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), contract deliverables, contract data, baselines, and technical documents such as the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), Contract Work Breakdown Structure (CWBS), Integrated Master Plan (IMP), Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) / commissioning plan, Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), Program Protection Plan (PPP), and others
- Experience as a SETA team member evaluating the performance of Government contractors
- Experience or familiarity with DoD acquisition program Test and Evaluation (T&E), test ranges, ground testing, hypersonic wind tunnels, or other T&E infrastructure
- Interest in learning about hypersonic test and evaluation concepts and infrastructure
- Top Secret eligibility
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