Technical Project Manager

Description

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Leidos is seeking a customer-oriented Project Manager who will be responsible for managing the cost, schedule, and performance of Government projects for the Air Force National Capital Region (AFNCR). This role includes management of issues, risks, and project change request to ensure successful and on time project delivery. The PM will support Air Force Communications Squadrons at three primary locations to include Joint Base Andrews, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and the Pentagon on both SIPR and NIPR domains. The preferred candidate will have excellent communications skills, a strong customer service orientation and experience managing and developing schedule for small to medium projects.

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The Mission
Leidos provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.

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The Challenge:

• Plan, coordinate and manage small and medium projects.

• Integrate all functions and activities necessary to perform the project/program to meet the client or customer requirements.

• Direct project team personnel, manage schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.

• Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.

• As the Technical Project Manager, you will support a team to develop and deliver capabilities while managing risks, escalating impediments, and helping to drive continuous process improvement.

• Present project related information potentially to the customer, internal leadership and peers.

• May be asked to mentor other team members.

• Create project management plans, set expectations, and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.

• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.

• Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per organizational/PMO standards.

• Ensures projects are delivered on-time and remain in scope.

• Monitors and tracks project dependencies.

• Create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.

• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.

• Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables.

• You will interact directly with customers (e.g., end-users, system owners, stakeholders, etc.) and enterprise architects as part of providing full end-to-end systems engineering leadership.

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or a Masters with 2+ years of prior experience, additional years of applicable experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree.

• Currently possess an active Secret security clearance.

• Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office functions.

• Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships, and external networks.

• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed.

• Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

• Experience with agile practices.

• Experience with people management.

• Experience with project schedule and cost management.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate.

You Might Also Have:

• PMP

• ITILv4

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.