About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities
We are Hiring! Our CDC Program is looing to add a Project Manager. This qualified individual will our high performing team. This position is remote. Selected candidate must be local to the Atlanta GA location.
What you will do:
- Provide oversight and functions as the main point of contact for multiple concurrent projects
- Interface with the customer and project team (programmers, analysts, biostatisticians, team leads, quality assurance) to define requirements
- Obtain approval/sign off for project activities
- Work with the project team to define project tasks and schedules and obtains stakeholder buy-in
- Ensure project solution meets requirements and customer priorities
- Conduct project meetings, create project documentation
- Monitor project progress continuously, regularly updating project schedules and documentation
- Prepare detailed status reports on project activities, milestones, and deliverables
- Develop mitigations to ensure productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction goals and objectives are met
- Provide regular status updates to program management/brief project status to program team and customer bi-weekly
- Work in a collaborative, supportive environment that allows you to grow your skills and your career while building experience in a variety of different domains and value streams
- Contribute your technical expertise and experience to review and provide critical analysis of capabilities while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet mission requirements and align with our strategic goals
- Conduct analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems, reviewing system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations
- Coach lean-agile best practices to minimize waste while maximizing the value of delivered capabilities
- Elicit and document requirements via interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and workflow analysis
- Conduct systems analysis to determine data needs and provide technical recommendations
- Provide support to the Technical Director and Senior Leadership, coordinating across teams to facilitate synergy and success in research projects
- Develop and deliver working-level and senior leadership briefs
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of experience or a Masters Degree and 3 years of expereince.
- Experience defining and documenting requirements
- Ability to identify risks and process improvement opportunities to add value to the projects managed
- In-depth understanding of Project Management practices
- Demonstrated excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to cultivate close working relationships with customers, project team members, leadership, and other stakeholders
- Proficiency with software tools required for development and maintenance of project plans and documentation (Azure DevOps, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint)
- Experience leading project teams
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated and results oriented
- Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card Holder
- Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
Benefits:
At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.
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Target Salary Range
$66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range
EEO
An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.
