Project Management Specialist

Position:

Project Management Specialist

Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Salary Range: $80k-$100k

Key Logic is seeking a Project Management Specialist for potential work to contribute to project management efforts on large-scale scientific research and development projects.

• Support principal investigators or project directors in facilitating and coordinating project activities, project reporting, sponsor communication, and other duties as assigned by project leadership.
• Work with project staff to develop and maintain schedules, cost estimates, assist with risk identification, and change control.
• Provide day‑to‑day support to the project with schedule and cost maintenance and status, and forecasting and assist in generating monthly reports on project status and performance;
• Perform ad‑hoc activities as directed by the project management mentor, principal investigator or project director;
• Support the project management staff in preparing for various project reviews, including internal and external project status reviews.
• Deliver client’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service.
• Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

• BS/BA in project management, business, engineering or equivalent
• Two (2) years of applicable experience.
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills and be capable of working independently on complex tasks in support of team members.
• Possess advanced competence in Microsoft applications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or equivalent
• Possess an understanding of project management best practices and competence creating project schedules, performing resource loading, incorporating monthly status, and creating and maintaining the project baseline.
• Demonstrated ability of successful work in an interdisciplinary project environment and/or scientific collaboration that includes participants from academia, national laboratories, and other scientific organizations.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to a diverse audience.

This position may require the ability to obtain a government clearance which requires U.S. citizenship. This position may require reviews and tests for absence of any illegal drugs along with a background investigation by the Federal government in order to obtain an access authorization prior to employment and may require subsequent reinvestigations.

Supporting critical missions at the intersection of data and science, Key Logic provides mission management, systems analysis, data analytics, digital transformation, and cybersecurity to customers in the energy, federal civilian, and defense sectors, with a 20+ year portfolio of successes supporting DOE, DOC, EPA, DOD, DHS, FBI, and other federal agencies challenged with complex missions. We help our customers solve the world’s most challenging problems with unsurpassed anticipatory service.

Key Logic employs over 600 team members, including systems designers, developers, data scientists, IT and cybersecurity specialists, engineers, mission experts, program managers, and more than 70 Ph.D. scientists. This multidisciplinary team works together solving challenging problems with anticipatory service – always staying one step ahead – benefiting our customers, and ultimately helping build a better world.

We are committed to the success of each customer’s mission. We care enough to make their mission our mission and their success our success. We take technical service delivery to a level above our peers. Our anticipatory service is best‑in‑class.

Key Logic is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer. Key Logic is committed to a policy of non‑discrimination against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Request for accommodation will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis.

Job Code: 2603