Project Manager, Federal and Defense Program

Description

AMT’s Research Services team is responsible for planning, producing, and delivering market research and industry benchmarking surveys to customers ranging from high-growth startups to multinational corporations. With a foundation in economics as well as a wide range of manufacturing technologies, the team provides insight across diverse areas of the industry. You’ll be surrounded by a growing Research Services team based in McLean, VA with backgrounds as diverse as hard tech, investment banking, economics, mathematics, data science, consulting, and political science.

The Research Services team collaborates with Dev Ops, content, marketing, membership, sales, exhibitions, advocacy, and global services teams to grow AMT’s customer base, industry engagement, and thought leadership.

AMT is seeking a Project Manager to support the successful execution of DoW / DoD project work awarded through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) or similar federal project structure. This position is contingent on contract award. This is a mid-level project management role for someone who is highly organized, comfortable working with technical teams, and able to manage schedule, deliverables, risks, communications, project documentation, and project administration in a disciplined way.

In this role, the Project Manager will help ensure that AMT's project team executes on time, meets government-facing deliverable requirements, maintains clear internal and external communication, and keeps project documentation organized and audit-ready. This role will also support project financial administration, including tracking progress against milestones, coordinating cost and labor inputs, and assisting with invoice preparation and backup documentation for DoW / DoD review.

• Maintain the project schedule and coordinate work across milestones, deliverables, review timelines, and major work streams.
• Coordinate kickoff meetings, internal team meetings, government status meetings, and project reviews, including agendas, notes, action trackers, decision logs, and follow-up materials.
• Support recurring technical, management, risk, and financial updates for government contacts, and maintain the project risk register with mitigation actions, owners, status, and escalation needs.
• Develop and maintain project plans, trackers, matrices, compliance documentation, and organized records to keep deliverables complete, timely, and traceable from scope through invoicing.
• Track labor, partner inputs, milestone completion, burn rate, budget status, and deliverable acceptance, and assist with invoice preparation, reconciliation, and coordination with finance, contracts, and leadership.
• Identify schedule, budget, staffing, data, and stakeholder risks early, help resolve them, and serve as a coordination point for government stakeholders, industry participants, and partners.
• Protect sensitive information and follow data handling, confidentiality, export control, and cybersecurity requirements while supporting briefing materials, dashboards, executive updates, and internal reports.
• Help improve AMT’s federal project management processes, templates, and reporting practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, public policy, economics, supply chain, or a related field required.
• PMP certification.
• Minimum of 4 years of project management, government contracting, defense project, consulting, research, manufacturing, or technical project experience preferred.
• Experience supporting federal, defense, OTA (Other Transactional Authorities) consortium-based, cooperative agreement, grant, or other government-funded projects, including milestone-based deliverables, government reporting, project compliance, or federal invoicing, strongly preferred.
• In order to be considered for this position, you must be a U.S Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident due to possible required access to U.S. export‑controlled information or facilities. AMT will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel,…