Project Manager, Operations Manager

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FIRST RF is seeking a highly organized and technically driven Project Manager to lead complex programs for both defense and commercial applications. In this role, you will oversee projects from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, engineering milestones, security standards, and cost/schedule objectives. You will serve as the primary interface between internal stakeholders, suppliers, and customers driving programs execution, mitigating risks, and ensuring critical solutions are delivered with excellence.

The ideal candidate will hold strong communication skills, a results-oriented mindset, and a solid technical background.

• Act as a project leader and drive consistent, organized processes
• Facilitate communication among production, engineering, quality, management, suppliers and customers
• Collaborate with all teams to ensure that project goals and deliverables meet FIRST RF quality standards
• Assess, monitor, document, and communicate on project scope and status, risks and key learnings to project stakeholders
• Construct and control project plans and budgets that help teams drive key decision points
• Ensure all team members understand their roles and are held accountable for meeting commitments
• Identify, track, manage, and resolve project issues
• Capture and document project-related business, functional and creative information during the project lifecycle
• Drive change management processes, manage stakeholder expectations, communicate impact, and execute changes if applicable
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the projects and related contractual, technical, and quality documentation

• Must have U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance
• Must currently live in or near Boulder, Colorado, or be willing to relocate
• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline and relevant experience in technical leadership or equivalent
• Ability to identify technical, cost, and schedule risks/opportunities and to engage technical support appropriately
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including creating and delivering presentations
• A capacity to thrive in a self-motivated environment that has few boundaries and at times conflicting priorities
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills and a detail-oriented problem-solving approach
• A desire to find, explore, and solve new and challenging problems

• A proven capacity to contribute to multidisciplinary engineering projects
• Experience in R&D and FAR proposal activities and development to customer requirements

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time based on business needs.

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

This is a full-time position at 40 hours per week. Typical office hours include Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm, however these hours will vary based on workload and the manager’s discretion. This job may require more than 40 hours of work per week as the need arises.

No travel is expected for this position.

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers and photocopiers.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

FIRST RF is a fast-growing, multi-disciplined, privately owned small business that develops and delivers affordable, reliable, high-performance…