Job Description

Essential Functions

• Construct and control project plans and budgets that help teams drive key decision points.
  
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the projects and related contractual, technical, and quality documentation.
  
• Maintain the project calendar.
  
• Balance the demands of several simultaneous projects.
  
• Schedule project meetings and keep meeting minutes.
  
• Identify, track, manage, and resolve project issues.
  
• Ensure the Project Team is meeting stakeholder needs.
  
• Prepare the cost and schedule of proposals to win new programs for key pursuits.
  
• Coordinates and monitors the metrics of their projects.
  
• Ensures adherence to master plans and schedules and develops solutions to project problems.
  
• Facilitate communication among production, engineering, quality, management, suppliers, and customers.
  
• Collaborate with all teams to ensure that project goals and deliverables meet quality standards.
  
• Assess, monitor, document, and communicate on project scope and status, risks, and key learnings to project stakeholders.
  
• Ensure all team members understand their roles and are held accountable for meeting commitments.
  
• Drive change management processes, manage stakeholder expectations, communicate impact, and execute changes if applicable.
  
• Facilitate program communication and information flow by maintaining the project files.
  
• Coordinate resource allocation across a portfolio of projects.
  
• Coordinate with Contracts and Finance ensure compliance to federal acquisition regulations (FAR).
  
• Other duties as assigned.
  

Requirements

Required Education and Experience

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance
  
• Reside in Colorado
  
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills and a detail-oriented problem-solving approach
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including creating and delivering presentations
  
• A capacity to thrive in a self-motivated environment that has few boundaries and at-times conflicting priorities
  
• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or relevant experience in technical leadership
  
• Ability to identify technical, cost, and schedule risks/opportunities and to engage technical support appropriately
  
• A desire to find, explore, and solve new and challenging problems
  

Preferred Education and Experience

• A proven capacity to contribute to multidisciplinary engineering projects
  
• Experience in R&D and FAR proposal activities and development to customer requirements
  
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
  

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