Federal Program Manager

Since 1993, Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc. has fostered a flexible approach to commercial construction based on cooperation, innovation, and accountability. A 100% Alaskan-owned, managed, and staffed company, our team has the experience, relationships, and resources to manage projects of all sizes throughout Alaska.

The Federal Program Manager is accountable for the growth, performance, and long-term success of Cornerstone's federal construction portfolio. This position provides program-level leadership across federal pursuits, contracts, and active projects; directly supervises the Federal Project Manager; and ensures the federal portfolio achieves established growth, profitability, contractual, schedule, quality, safety, compliance, and client-service objectives.

Working with Executive Leadership, Business Development, Preconstruction, and Operations, the Federal Program Manager identifies where Cornerstone should compete, develops federal agency and industry relationships, leads capture and teaming strategies, aligns resources across pursuits and active projects, and provides oversight from opportunity identification through project closeout.

The Federal Project Manager and assigned project teams remain responsible for day-to-day project execution. The Federal Program Manager maintains visibility across the entire federal portfolio, establishes expectations, evaluates performance and risk, allocates resources, and intervenes when individual project or program conditions could affect Cornerstone's broader federal objectives.

• Lead Cornerstone's federal construction program as an integrated portfolio of pursuits, contracts, task orders, and active projects.
• Establish program priorities and performance expectations and maintain visibility of backlog, pipeline, staffing, resources, project health, and significant risks across the federal portfolio.
• Evaluate performance across federal projects and intervene when financial, contractual, schedule, quality, safety, compliance, staffing, or client-service results vary materially from established expectations.
• Coordinate staffing and resources across pursuits and active projects to support sustainable growth and successful project delivery.

• Lead the continued growth of Cornerstone's federal portfolio by connecting market intelligence, client relationships, competitive strategy, and operational capability.
• Identify and qualify federal opportunities and lead capture planning, competitive positioning, teaming strategy, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Direct operational input into proposals, technical narratives, pricing strategies, schedules, staffing plans, and pursuit risk assessments.
• Develop and maintain relationships with Contracting Officers, CORs, Resident Engineers, agency leadership, teaming partners, and industry stakeholders that support successful delivery, competitive positioning, and repeat opportunities.
• Represent Cornerstone in strategic client meetings, partnering sessions, interviews, presentations, negotiations, debriefs, and industry events.

• Consolidate and evaluate project budgets, forecasts, backlog, pipeline, cash flow, profitability, resource requirements, and financial risk across the federal portfolio.
• Review project forecasts, cost projections, changes, and recovery plans with federal project leadership and require corrective action when performance varies from established expectations.
• Maintain program-level visibility of significant contractual, financial, schedule, compliance, and client risks and ensure appropriate mitigation, escalation, and executive involvement.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight of significant Requests for Equitable Adjustment (REAs), claims, modifications, and contract issues to protect Cornerstone's contractual and financial interests.

• Provide program-level leadership and guidance regarding federal contracts, task orders, modifications, acquisition requirements, and applicable contract clauses.
• Establish consistent expectations and controls for compliance with FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, EM 385-1-1, Davis-Bacon, Buy America, project-specific requirements, and other applicable federal requirements.
• Establish program-wide expectations for quality control, project documentation, reporting, safety, and compliance.
• Support federal project leadership, Quality Control…