Project Manager

Peraton is seeking a Project Manager.  This position will oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. This

Individual will review status of projects and budgets, manage schedule, and prepares status reports. Also they will assess project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Lastly they will develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients, and other stakeholders.

This position will support our customer as an overall Project Manager over a suite of products/applications.

This position must be within a commutable distance from Fort Meade, MD.

The selected individual must be a US Citizen and have active Secret clearance

This person will be responsible for utilizing advanced program management skills and knowledge to follow the organization's strategic plan and lead the large-to-medium and/or moderately complex programs spanning multiple organizations supporting DISA’s Cross Domain Enterprise Service.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Participates in key planning milestones
• Works with the core team to identify and schedule all the work for end-to-end deployment required to fulfill program scope
• Facilitates the development and implementation of key goals, objectives and success criteria for the program with key stakeholders and core team
• Analyzes areas of risk to avoid risky activities by identifying and managing critical paths and risk areas
• Establishes contingency plans and identifies trigger events and assumes responsibility for initiation corrective actions
• Escalates early to SBI to determine when to engage senior management
• Works with leadership and core team members to help identify and assist in making program tradeoffs to balance scope, time and costs
• Tracks and manages the program schedule and upstream and downstream dependencies
• Works with Strategic Business Initiative to assist in action item resolution and track completion
• Ensures program milestones are accomplished and ensures overall committed timelines are met
• Documents all major plan changes in scope, approach and date delivery
• Communicates updates on major milestones and keeps all stakeholders advised of progress and issues
• Identifies and manages proposed changes to program parameters and works with Cross Domain Mission partners and Program Managers to ensure appropriate processes and communications are followed
• Monitors and ensures quality of program deliverables
• Works with core team and key field resources to develop and supervise deployment schedule, strategies and tools to support the implementation of programs in the field through trials and controlled customer deployments

Basic Qualifications:

• Min 10 years
• Active Secret clearance
• Must be a U.S Citizen
• Experience with project management
• Experience with meeting program deadlines and managing deliverables
• Experience with leading a team