Operations Manager - Senior

Operations Manager - Senior

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 25%

Type of Travel: Local

Anticipated Posting End: There is not an anticipated end date for this posting since applications are needed on an ongoing basis.

The Opportunity: 

Serve as the senior leader responsible for engineering team coordination, scheduling, and resource alignment across CONUS base modernization efforts. As an Operations Manager, you’ll oversee NOC and field teams, manage site readiness, logistics, and staffing across all phases of execution. In this role you will support EVM, risk mitigation, COOP/DR exercises, and customer engagement. Your leadership ensures alignment with scope, timelines, and contract requirements—directly contributing to program success across critical U.S. Air Force infrastructure initiatives.   

 

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for all NOC and on-site engineering staff, schedules, and resources across multiple facilities/locations

• Maintains on-call coverage lists, works with contingency staffers on surge or contingency support

• Ensures successful annual exercise of COOP/DR

• Supports Program Manager to schedule, coordinate, and host required customer meetings

• Supports EVM, input, and Integrated Baseline Reviews

• Manages development of and reviews travel and purchasing requests

• Oversees procurement of supplies, materials, and equipment IAW USG requirements and logistics support activities (e.g., warehousing, transporting, shipping, tracking, delivering, and staging equipment) of all equipment to individual installation sites. Assists with pre-implementation coordination activities

• Manages all program/project activities, including WITO, survey, logistics, safety, quality, surveys, installation, and O&M

• Monitors progress to ensure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met

• Provides input; prepares, and reviews deliverables and project documentation to meet milestones and SLAs

• Submits daily reports and other documentation as requested. Identifies, reports, and implements approved risk mitigation plans

• Assists with development of Transition-In/Transition-Out Plans

• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success

• Manages/supervises others

Available Work Locations:

• Buckley SFB, Colorado

• Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida

• Patrick SFB, Florida

• Peterson SFB, Colorado*

Qualifications: 

Required:  

• Bachelor's degree + 10 years of relevant experience; High School diploma or associate degree plus a minimum of 12 years of experience performing as a Network Plant Engineer supporting ISP/OSP solutions on large, complex networks may be considered in lieu of bachelor's degree.

• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio); working knowledge of MS Project and EVM; experience supporting DoD projects, specifically network modernization projects 

• Willing to travel

• US citizen with Secret security clearance

   

Desired:  

• Certification(s): 30-hour OSHA Construction safety class

• Master's degree in relevant area of study

• PMI PMP preferred

• *Some locations may