Senior Project Manager

We are seeking a Project Manager who possesses the ability to work with a small multi-disciplinary engineering team to assist leadership in the planning and execution of projects involving complex systems for a government customer.  The successful candidate will utilize their communication skills, attention to detail, education, and experience to drive the success of these innovative projects.    

Job Purpose:

This position will support the engineering team in the design, development, testing and production phases of projects undertaken at PERATON Labs, the research and development arm of PERATON corporation.  

Duties and Responsibilities Include, but not limited to: 

• Develop project plans with input from key stakeholders and ultimately seek formal approval from leadership. 

• Incorporate quality control early in the project to ensure the produced product meets customer requirements and engineering standards. 

• Track progress against approved project plan throughout the lifecycle of the project. 

• Communicate effectively with the engineering team to ascertain progress, understand work being performed and develop plans to mitigate risks. 

• Develop risk mitigation options when required to maintain cost and schedule, understand likelihood of occurrence and schedule impacts. 

• Convey to leadership, at reasonable interval, overall progress, risks, plans to mitigate risks, and potential schedule impacts. 

• Develop a risk registry, with input from engineers that correctly depicts the project landscape and includes impacts to cost and schedule.   

• Initiate BCPs as required and solicit approval for recommended changes. 

• Manage resource requirements, communicating gaps and needs to senior leadership to prevent issues with meeting program requirements. 

• Generate presentation material to easily communicate project.

Required Education and Work Experience: 

The successful candidate has demonstrated experience with complicated projects including engineering, prototyping, testing, validation, and verification leading to integration and manufacture. 

A degree in business, finance or engineering is required with the following experience levels: 

• BS/BA with 12 or more years of experience managing projects. 

• MS/MA with 10 or more years of experience managing projects.
• PhD with 7 or more years of experience managing projects.  

(Experience must be with relevant work in a professional setting) 

Required Skills/Attributes: 

• Expert in the use of MS project and or Primavera to manage cost, schedule and resources 

• Expert in EVMS approach to project management 

• Expert in analyzing project material to ascertain likelihood of desired cost and schedule outcomes. 

• Expert in developing reporting materials to communicate project status to stakeholders. 

• Experience tracking and managing various Milestone and/or other Contract Deliverables 

• Ability to be onsite five days a week when required. 

• Occasional Travel to partner manufacturing facilities and other Peraton facilities will be required, 

• Experience with the application of quality control methodologies to product production beginning at project inception is a key skill. 

• U.S. Citizenship. 

Desired Skills/Attributes: 

• A PMI PMP certification or equivalent 

• Direct experience working closely with engineers to deliver complex electro-optical systems 

• Experience with logistics for DoE/DoW systems