Project Manager

Description

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos has an opening for an experienced Project Manager for the GIG Service Management - Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at Fort Meade, MD.

This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversee the planning, execution, and optimization of IT services to ensure they meet business objectives and customer expectations.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and senior government personnel to understand service needs and ensure that IT services align with their objectives.
• Work with technical teams to report project status and assist with other support tasks, as required.
• Set project goals, come up with plans to meet those goals and report status throughout the project lifecycle.
• Brief and present project plans to key stakeholders.
• Organize meetings to discuss project goals and progress.
• Coordinate project tasks with team members, manage delivery team resources when developing schedules
• Use project management tools to track project performance and schedule adherence.
• Conduct risk assessments for projects.
• Assist with the development of content for program reviews and contract milestones.
• Attend technical meetings and prepare formal written minutes (as required) for delivery to the government.
• Communicate orally, and in writing, detailed technical information.
• This hybrid role combines project management expertise with technical skills, which will increase project efficiency by reducing dependency on external technical resources.
• By handling both project management and technical aspects, this position aims to streamline processes, manage resources effectively, and facilitate better communication between project and technical teams.
• Consider external activities that may drive dependencies or risks to the plan(s).
• Manage engineering and support personnel against project workload in coordination with engineering & implementation vendors to ensure efficient planning and execution of transition and integration tasking.
• Lead status calls and articulate accomplishments, current project status, identify challenges, and projection.
• Create detail project plans and schedules, allocated resources, product delivery schedules, project estimates, work-breakdown structure (WBS), resource plans, and status reports to fully support enterprise-level requirements.
• Participate in program and project activities, attend meetings, champion special projects and prepare exclusive reports.
• Ensure that all implementation activities use consistent and proven processes and that these processes are modified and improved as necessary, across all types of implementations.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active DoD SECRET Clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent work experience. Additional experience, education and training may be considered in lieu of degree
• Demonstrated success working with technical leads and subject matter experts to understand and define resource requirement to order to develop schedules that ensure operational projects are completed on time within budget readiness.
• Demonstrated success in managing project team activities and technical resources, and providing periodic project status to stakeholders
• Through understanding of DISA implementation process and E&I standard.
• Skilled at creating, modifying and maintaining a project schedules to meet project demands. Possess the ability to quickly modify, streamline, and execute per the schedule to meet real world mission requirements.
• Ability to serve as liaison between stakeholders and program leadership, assist with briefing stakeholders regularly on project purpose and progress and alerting program leadership to developing issues and opportunities throughout the area of responsibility.
• Optimize, facilitate and finalize all aspects of site acceptance and quality control.
• Collaborate with partners to coordinate and perform project objectives to include site surveys, installations, testing, site deinstallations, quality control and provide customer-ready deliverable reports upon completion.
• Knowledge and skillset to distinguish between Site Assessment, Site Survey, Installation, and Commissioning.
• Demonstrated success in the developing of IBOM, MBOM, and Master TRBOMs.
• Demonstrated success with interaction and collaboration with stakeholders at an 0-6/GS-15 level.
• Demonstrated success in working with leadership to understand the define resources needs of your project.
• Experience in performing project audits; monitor/tracking of corrective actions; managing process improvement; performing process checks on internal procedures; and reviewing contract deliverables.
• Strong understanding of the DISN network, engineering, and design.
• Expertise in fully understanding the DISA logistic process and procedures.
• Demonstrated success in multi-tasking, self-assigning work, and functioning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with MS Office Products (Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, SharePoint, and PowerPoint).
• Demonstrated success project management approaches.
• MS Project experience
• Agile experience
• Specialized experience includes full life cycle development, demonstrated ability to provide guidance and direction for Network Operations, Administration & Maintenance, and Network Assurance tasks.
• Expertise in identifying areas of improvement, critical dependencies, and process changes that enable the Government to attain integrated outcomes that are effective, efficient, sustainable, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Experience coordinating with multiple technical and operational teams to achieve the necessary program, project or activity plans, and schedules while maintaining within budget guidelines.
• Strong understanding of the factors which allow successful performance on a Firm Fixed Performance Based Contracts with aggressive Acceptable Levels of Performance (ALPs) and ability to drive new projects to successfully transition into this type of contract environment.
• Experience in assigning tasks to contractor personnel that are located in multiple time zones, supervising on-going technical efforts, and managing contract performance on new task orders and projects identified by the customer.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP Certification
• DISA Experience
• ITIL knowledge and certifications
• GSMO
• External Referral Eligible

GSMO

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.