Technical Project Leader

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage projects from inception through completion and provide technical and managerial assistance on all aspects of project management to comply with the technical requirements of the contract.
• Manage and coordinate technical and administrative staff by assigning, scheduling, prioritizing, coordinating, and facilitating multiple tasks.
• Evaluate performance of subcontractors and staff in terms of actual and planned task schedules and resource requirements. Review work for quality assurance.
• Compose memoranda, reports, and other documentation highlighting project steps and status for daily and weekly meetings with customer.
• Attend meetings and make presentations about project status and work commitments.
• Ensure training of all staff members and instruct them on customer's methods, procedures, and standards.
• Evaluate, develop, or implement procedures regarding project documentation and development.
• Troubleshoot technical problems and take corrective action.
• Review employee schedules and timecards.
• Participate in long-range planning, analysis, and program design.
• Participate in the planning and design of new projects as requested.
• Effectively multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced dynamic production environment.
• Handle ambiguity and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment and develop appropriate solutions to emergent issues.
• Work independently and quickly learn new program functional skills and tasks.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Take on other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain, or possess, a U.S. Government granted personnel security clearance at the Secret level and US Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree and 8-10 years of experience; or a High School Diploma/GED Equivalent and 12-14 years of experience.
• Experience leading and managing teams in a Ship Repair & Modernization environment is highly preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Knowledge of DoD program execution, including scheduling, data gathering and analysis, or government contracts.
• Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office products to use and create spreadsheets, reports, and presentations.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a military or defense-related environment.
• Experience with ship repair and modernization projects.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Educational background as specified in the requirements.

Benefits & Perks

• Support for military and defense projects.
• Part-time on-call remote position.
• Opportunity to make an impact in national security.