Operations Specialist - Defense

What We Do

Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.  

Role at a Glance

The Defense Project Manager is operations-minded, highly organized, and a driven professional.  In short, they will own and ensure completion of all facets of the end-to-end service and product delivery workflows and report on their status. 

The perfect candidate will have unmatched attention to detail, strong communication skills and follow-through, and expert ability to prioritize their efforts toward the most critical tasks. They will possess an unrelenting desire to close gaps and drive clarity when projects are ambiguous or ill-defined.

What you will do

• Take administrative ownership of inspections and their success; seeking out, communicating, and ensuring the completion of all requirements for each engagement. 
• Lead conversations with project stakeholders -- customers, prime and subcontractors, and internal Gecko teams -- to understand/clarify 1) work scopes, 2) customer success criteria, 3) site access and security requirements, and 4) other critical inputs for service delivery and product acceptance.
• Represent Gecko operational needs and interests with external stakeholders and ensure they are understood and acted upon by customer and other critical stakeholders.
• Work with sensitive information and safeguard PII, while owning the completion of customer site access and security requirements.
• Challenge the status quo, and identify and implement improvements. 
• Drive people, processes, and technology toward efficiency, customer satisfaction, safety, and quality.
• Manage the changing landscape of customer needs (changes to plan and schedule, delays, issues, etc. ) and ensure adherence to project timelines.
• Report daily and weekly project status updates to key stakeholders.

About You

• Experience
• Leading cross functional projects/teams in a highly dynamic and agile environment
• Experience collaborating with government stakeholders preferred
• Experience working within government compliance frameworks including the handling of controlled documents
• Project management skills including maintaining goal-orientation, managing prioritization and schedules, conducting problem solving, risk and root cause analysis, preparing for and driving meetings, and managing stakeholder communications
• Formal project management methodology experience (e.g., Waterfall, Agile Methodology, etc) is preferred
• Process development and improvement
• Skills 
• Exceptional leadership, organizational, and time management skills
• Must be able to work autonomously and possess internal framework to prioritize and triage the most critical tasks
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience interfacing with all levels of the DOD/Gov and prime/subcontractor ecosystems
• Flexible; can adapt to changing schedules and priorities
• Strategic planning, organization, and resource management
• Familiarity and competence with various project/program management software tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, SmartSheet, Asana, Microsoft Office and Google Suite equivalents
• Requirements
• U.S Citizenship
• Secret Clearance Eligibility

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Salary Range: $110,000-$180,000 annually plus equity and perks.

This salary range is based on the current available market data, and represents the expected salary range for this role. Gecko Robotics has minimal hierarchy and few titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we'd love to hear from you and would welcome you to reach out to further discuss.

Who We Are

At Gecko, our people are our greatest investment. In addition to competitive compensation packages, we offer company equity, 401(k) matching, gender-neutral parental leave, full medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health and wellness support, ongoing professional development, family planning assistanc