Project Manager, Operations Management, Project & Program Management

Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain an Active Secret Clearance to be considered due to the nature of the work.

- Must be US Citizen

Location: Must be within 100 miles of Lexington, MA - This position is Hybrid, with a minimum of 80% onsite presence required. Candidates may be asked to come onsite 5 days a week to support the mission as needed.

At Aquila Technology, you will see our team’s passion every day, whether we are building a robust, policy-compliant IT system or stress‑testing a system to identify gaps and security vulnerabilities. To own the advantage, we ensure our team owns results and gets the work done right the first time by deploying smart, purposeful solutions that work. Aquila is the right people with the right skills driving the right outcomes.

We call this the Aquila Advantage.

Aquila Technology is seeking a Project Manager to join its team in support of one of the nation’s premier defense research organizations. The team is in search of a thorough, detail‑oriented individual, with exceptional organizational skills to manage our organizations spaces and support in organizational and field‑based data collection efforts. This position spans organizational space management, hands‑on experimental support, fielding execution, and group operations/facilities support.

A successful candidate will be comfortable working across multiple environments and will be equally proficient coordinating logistics for an in‑house data collection as they are traveling to support a field deployment.

• Maintain and operate the Computer‑Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) system and other MIT LL STRIVE Center equipment including motion capture (Vicon), EMG (Delsys), IMU (Delsys, Xsens), metabolic cost (Cosmed), and projection (Scalable) systems
• Maintain oversight of laboratory spaces owned and managed by Group 24
• Ensure all spaces remain compliant with EHS safety standards, are well organized, and are ready for daily operations and organizational tours
• Maintain equipment inventories, coordinate preventative maintenance, and train staff on the proper use of organizations equipment and systems
• Interface with research principal investigators, program managers, technical staff, and equipment manufacturers/vendors as needed to support organizations operations

• Support experimental design and provide input on hardware system selection, integration, and testing
• Execute organizational data collections with high accuracy, adhering to project timelines and technical specifications
• Perform initial data processing, ensuring collected data is present, organized, and cleaned for hand‑off to the broader project team
• Standardize and streamline data collection procedures to minimize setup errors and improve overall data quality

• Experience executing data collections in a laboratory or field setting
• Program/Project Management OR Analysis
• Experience supporting field deployments, including coordination with external parties and travel
• Organization Support Functions
• Maintain equipment with complex hardware/software systems (i.e. CAREN)
• Operating a CAREN system

• Managing facility security and safety protocols
• Organizational management (human subjects research)
• Experience integrating measurement hardware into existing testing environments

• Support planning for field data collections, including logistics, scheduling, and equipment staging
• Interface with external parties and collaborators to coordinate fielding activities
• Execute field data collections, including travel to field sites as required to support…