Project Manager - Journeyman

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan, coordinate and manage small, medium and large projects.
• Coordinate with agencies within and external to the Air force like DISA, JSP, Army, and commercial vendors.
• Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
• Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions.
• Provide strong, proactive and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.
• Makes decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis.
• Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project.
• Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors and work centers.
• Create project management plans, set expectations and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.
• Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards.
• Ensures projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope. Monitors and tracks project dependencies.
• Create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals.
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates.
• Actively monitor, track and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• 3-5 years of project management experience.
• The following active certifications:
  • CompTIA Security+
  • PMP
• Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships and external networks.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed.
• Excellent customer facing skills.
• Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate.

We are seeking a Project Manager - Journeyman to join our AFNCR team supporting the Air Force District of Washington at Joint Base Andrews, MD.

Tek Synap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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