Project Manager

Project Manager

Job Category: Project and Program Management

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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The Opportunity:

Are you a current or aspiring Project Manager interesting in providing management oversight for a portfolio of unique and varied projects supporting the Department of Defense (DoD)? Do you have the desire and drive to push yourself into a new and challenging career stage?

CACI seeks a highly motivated Project Manager to join or team supporting NavalX within the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Our organization manages a multi-disciplinary portfolio of projects from across the spectrum of Engineering and Research and Development (R&D) fields and requires an enthusiastic and self-motivated project manager with a desire to deliver high quality and consistent oversight to manage the portfolio. This position is an opportunity to transition into project management with complete responsibility for a portfolio of projects and their associated lifecycle. The position puts you at the center of a leadership team where you will be given opportunity to learn new skills and play a key role in the success of the organization. 

This is a hybrid position, ~60% in-office in Crane, IN.

Responsibilities:

Candidates will provide overall management of a portfolio of projects consisting of native, internally matrixed, and subcontractor resources including Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), technical personnel, and other appropriate expertise as needed tasked with designing, developing, implementing, and managing large-scale projects for the DoD. Duties may include resource management, financial management, reporting management, and personnel management. The ability to effectively organize and oversee multiple projects across multiple customer bases and multiple subject areas is critical for success in this role.

The primary responsibilities for this position are listed below:

• Manage personnel, cost, and performance of a team of technical professionals and subcontractors delivering solutions to a variety of DoD projects.
• Closely track financials across all portfolio projects to ensure continuity of funding for entire team. Create accurate portfolio revenue forecasts. Conduct detailed analyses to identify root causes of financial issues and develop solutions.
• Plan and coordinate all activities associated with execution of assigned portfolio of projects to ensure timely delivery of all requirements.
• Take initiative by self-educating, taking ownership of tasking, and identifying new areas of responsibility based upon team needs and individual strengths.
• Gathering and distributing information to subcontractors and service providers, through initiating, preparing, reviewing, and tracking RFI’s, and receiving, reviewing, submitting and tracking status of submittals.
• Interface with subcontractors and matrixed teams to ensure completeness of financial and technical deliverables.
• Collection and preparation of monthly project status reports.
• Assisting with project close out.
• Responsible for the acquisition of services, materials and supplies for assigned projects.
• Working with the program manager, and financial and procurement team, perform market research analysis of materials and resources, develop and revise rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates, and provide current and historical data for the acquisition of goods and services.
• Identifying project requirements including justification write-ups, sole-source recommendations and technical evaluations, and maintaining records of purchased materials and services by tracking purchase date, lead time and cost, and providing monthly reports to the customer.
• Closely monitor project team performance, including vendors, to ensure that materials and parts will be delivered on time and that the end product will meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with program manager to achieve socioeconomic goals by contracting small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned companies and disadvantaged business firms where practical.
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