IT Project Manager / Q or Top Secret Clearance

About the position

Pending contract award, Global Engineering & Technology (GET) is seeking an experienced Project Manager with exceptional administrative skills to lead a team of technical and administrative personnel who support cybersecurity and IT infrastructure needs at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This critically important position is highly compensated and requires a true leader and team builder with experience in managing a large group of highly specialized professionals. Selection criteria will be heavily focused on proven program management ability and experience ensuring contract compliance. The work location is primarily on-site at the DOE facility in Germantown, Maryland, with “as-needed” oversight of work performed at the DOE facility in Washington, DC. This is a full-time position with benefits, as an employee of GET.

Responsibilities

• Manages the overall contractual effort to ensure responsiveness to the client.
• Ensures overall responsiveness of staff for completion of all contract requirements and job requests.
• Anticipates problems and risks and works to mitigate them.
• Monitors each task and regularly briefs program/task management orally and in writing, concerning problems encountered and accomplishments.
• Evaluates staff performance and reviews work products on a daily basis.
• Responsible for keeping time and budget commitments for the organization.
• Interfaces between the client management team and GET corporate staff.
• Oversees the team's Technical Managers in setting employee workflow goals and performance across all operational areas (applications, infrastructure, and cybersecurity).
• Responsible for planning and directing process improvements.
• Generates reporting products and presents periodic planning and performance reviews to the client and additional stakeholders as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in Information Technology (IT), with at least eight years in managing IT contract performance.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills commensurate with experience level.
• Ability to work closely with the DOE's program/task manager to execute the project as specified within the Task Order.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong knowledge and command of conflict-resolution techniques.
• Ability to perform under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to perform complex data analysis and apply the analysis to make process improvements.
• Experience in planning, organizing, directing, and controlling overall activities of a project, including project management, technical work, requirements traceability, quality management, schedule, costs, risk management, and knowledge management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of earned value management systems (EVMS).
• Experience delivering exhibits including information technology project plans that communicate tasks, milestone dates, status, resource allocation, and associated costs.
• Experience leading knowledge management (KM) practices for the development, operations, and maintenance of enterprise systems for consistency across projects.
• Experience supporting enterprise IT Portfolio Management planning activities for lifecycle management requirements for organizational IT products and services.
• Experience providing technical input for annual labor requirements, and software licensing and maintenance requirements for steady state operations and lifecycle management.
• Experience providing technical input to support organizational assessments and data calls.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in cybersecurity and IT infrastructure management.
• Familiarity with Federal oversight IT program/task management.

Benefits

• Medical plan options with UnitedHealthcare
• Dental Insurance
• Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• AD&D Insurance
• Generous 401(k) match
• All benefits are effective on day one of employment.