Project Manager

Title:

Project Manager

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

KBR has an opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team in Lexington, MA. This position requires the ability to obtain a security clearance. An active Top-Secret with eligibility to be adjudicated eligible for SCI is preferred.

The Project Manager will work closely with Technical Leads to oversee all aspects of assigned projects to include setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring/summarizing progress of projects. Works directly with our customers, internal teams, and partner organizations and to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget.

Responsibilities: 

• Under the guidance of the Program Manager, responsible for the overall management of specific task order(s) and ensuring that the technical solutions and schedules in the task order are implemented in a timely manner.
• Serve as first level manager or task order leader.
• Provide project leadership and management by coordinating the efforts of staff assigned to the task order.
• Manage highly technical engineering team on challenging projects
• Responsible for overall task order or project performance within budgetary and schedule guidelines. Identifies and recommends objectives and scope of projects and communicates goals, scope, approach, and schedules to assigned personnel.
• Develop project plans, schedules, and timelines.
• Participate in program management reviews and adjust resources and schedules as needed.
• Coordinate and monitor project timelines and deadlines with technical leads and team members
• Develop an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) that identifies deliverable due dates and describes the progress and any approved changes to the baseline schedule.
• Track project tasks and action items.
• Evaluate performance and prepare project progress reports
• Identify potential delays in project schedules and facilitate intervention in a timely manner
• Recommend actions to keep projects within budget and completed on time
• Keep customers informed of project timelines and deadlines, while ensuring that project requirements are met and exceed customers' expectations

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Work Environment:

• Location: On-site
• Travel Requirements: Minimal (10%)
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an DoD security clearance. Prefer active Top-Secret clearance with eligibility to be adjudicated eligible for SCI
• Minimum BS, Engineering, Sciences, or Related Field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Prior management experience and extensive knowledge or experience within the assigned technical discipline(s) covered under a proposed TO.
• Capability to lead project development from inception to deployment, expertise in the management and control of funds and resources using complex reporting mechanisms and demonstrated capability in managing multi-task contracts and/or subcontracts of various types and complexity.
• Theoretical and practical project management knowledge
• Proficiency in project scheduling software, such as MS Project
• Proficiency in schedule planning and management
• Ability to evaluate project progress and facilitate interventions
• Ability to keep customers informed of project timelines and changes
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and communication skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Exceptional customer relations and engagement skills.
• Experience in strategic planning, project proposals, risk management and/or change management
• Proficiency in project management software tools

Desired:

• Prefer familiarity with military communications