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Project Manager

• Serve as the PMO lead for assigned research and development projects, including DoD-funded and other government-funded efforts such as SBIR, STTR, and other strategically important initiatives.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects that may be unrelated in scope but require coordinated execution due to shared organizational resources.
• Drive day-to-day project execution through cross-functional teams composed of resources from other business units, ensuring work progresses in alignment with approved scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
• Translate project objectives, contractual requirements, and baseline plans into coordinated workstreams, actionable priorities, and clear team accountabilities.
• Lead projects through all phases of the lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring and control, and closeout.
• Coordinate with functional managers and business unit leaders to secure resources, align priorities, and ensure timely completion of project deliverables.
• Actively identify execution gaps, remove barriers, resolve cross-functional issues, and escalate decisions as needed to keep projects moving forward.
• Manage and control project scope, schedule, and cost performance against approved baselines.
• Establish and maintain formal project management plans, including work breakdown structures, integrated schedules, budgets, resource plans, risk registers, and performance reporting.
• Monitor execution against plan using earned value management, cost controls, and other project performance measures; identify variances, assess impacts, and drive corrective actions with contributing teams and stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain accurate forecasts for cost, schedule, resource demand, and project completion.
• Partner with Finance, Contracts, business unit leaders, and technical teams to support financial planning, funding alignment, cost tracking, invoicing, and reporting.
• Oversee subcontractor and partner performance from a project management perspective, including deliverable tracking, schedule adherence, invoice review, and issue resolution.
• Ensure procurement and subcontractor activities are aligned with project requirements, contractual obligations, and company policies.
• Lead formal change control processes to evaluate, document, approve, and communicate changes to scope, schedule, budget, or resources.
• Maintain accurate project data, status, risks, issues, assumptions, actions, and decisions in required systems and dashboards.
• Lead recurring project and management reviews to provide leadership visibility, support decision-making, and drive accountability for execution.
• Develop and maintain executive-level visualizations, dashboards, and reporting that provide clear insight into project status, schedule performance, cost performance, risks, forecasts, and key decisions.

Senior Project Manager – Growth & Innovation

• Configure and maintain Jira and Jira Service Management components that support PMO processes, including workflows, screens, fields, request types, forms, and related settings.
• Manage PMO service request tracking within Jira Service Management to ensure requests are properly captured, assigned, monitored, and resolved.
• Support onboarding of new Jira users, including user setup coordination, access support, and orientation to PMO Jira processes and service requests.
• Assist users with Jira and Jira Service Management questions related to PMO workflows, fields, screens, and service request processes.
• Maintain Jira and Jira Service Management documentation and support continuous improvement of configurations and workflows to improve PMO efficiency and usability.
• Provide administrative and clerical support to the PMO as assigned.
• Support PMO documentation, records management, meeting coordination, scheduling, and follow-up activities.
• Maintain organized PMO files, templates, logs, trackers, and related administrative records.
• Assist with preparation of reports, presentations, dashboards, and other PMO documentation.
• Capture meeting notes, action items, and status updates, and support follow-up to ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.
• Support PMO processes by tracking assignments, requests, and administrative actions to completion.
• Maintain accurate data in PMO systems and trackers to support reporting, visibility, and day-to-day operations.
• Monitor PMO support requests and provide status updates to stakeholders as needed.
• Escalate issues, delays, system problems, or process gaps to PMO leadership as appropriate.
• Contribute to consistent use of PMO templates, workflows, administrative procedures, and service processes.

Senior Project Manager – Growth & Innovation

Assistant Project Manager