Project Manager, ATCS

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration.

As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager, ATCS to join the team with Nexus
, a teammate company!

The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall project – communicating the scope, schedule, and budget of the project; planning, organizing, and controlling the project; and communicating to internal and external stakeholders. More specific duties include:

• Formulate the project, based on customer direction, as described in EA-023.
• Clearly define the project scope.
• Be able to clearly define and explain the threats, costs, and resources of the project and track them along with schedule.
• Communicating issues and negotiating process and product agreements with the program, prime contractors, the Engineering Directorate, and relevant Technical Authorities.
• Defining the key milestone, schedule, and budget constraints for the team.
• Providing the team with a vision of the project objectives.
• Working with leaders in Identifying the resource needs, assigning responsibilities, and ensuring team personnel understand their roles and responsibilities.
• Develop a project plan, document the plan, and obtain approvals from engineering management and appropriate supporting organizations. Break the project into discrete tasks.
• Develop and continuously maintain a schedule to define project work activities, track progress, allocate resources, and identify constraints.
• Tracking project deliverables.
• Assign tasks to the project team members according to the project plan and schedule.
• Create and managing the project documents to monitor project performance and data.
• Maintain and update the project scope of work, financial plan, goals, and deliverables throughout the project life-cycle in response to program decisions.
• Reviewing and approving cost, schedule, or technical risk changes within the project; prepare decision packages to request budget, scope, or schedule changes from the program customer.
• Manage the operational, financial, and technological aspects of projects based on timelines and work plans.
• Directing, supporting, and coordinating the project team.
• Manage the project documents to monitor project performance and data.
• Resolve, tracing, and escalating critical issues to minimize project risk factors.
• Communicating intensively with customers, stakeholders, and contractors.
• Report on project progress and communicating relevant information to customers, other stakeholders, and management.
• Approve the certification plan and perform the provisional acceptance and final acceptance of the deliverables.
• Coordinate the lessons-learned process.
• Mentor less experienced project staff.
• Review hazard analyses and risk assessments for test activities (as required).
• Perform other duties as required.

This position has been posted at multiple levels.

Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor's…