Project Manager, Operations Management, Project & Program Management

Nakupuna Companies is seeking to hire a full-time Project Manager (PM) to lead our DoWEA Team. The candidate will serve as the primary operational liaison and overall leader for the Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Pacific Region Facility Surveys and Assessments contract. The PM is responsible for overseeing a multidisciplinary technical team to execute large-scale, triennial facility condition assessments, engineering surveys, and real property data collection across 45 school campuses on 21 U.S. military installations in Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, and Guam.

This strategic role requires strict adherence to schedules, financial objectives, and rigorous reporting requirements to ensure all deliverables support DoWEA's centralized asset management lifecycle.

Job

Duties Include:

The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this position, but management may assign additional duties and responsibilities at any time. Specific duties include:

• Operational Leadership & Contract Management: Serve as the primary operational liaison with the Contracting Officer (CO), Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), and DoWEA Regional Points of Contact. Develop and execute the Contract Management Plan across a complex, multi-year IDIQ structure, ensuring all contract operations and individual Task Orders fully comply with cost, schedule, invoicing, and performance requirements.
• Task Order Execution: Manage the concurrent execution of Triennial Task Orders (recurring three-year cycles for physical fieldwork and assessments) and Out-of-Cycle Task Orders (issued as needed for limited, unscheduled, or urgent requirements). Provide written justification for technical staffing mixes and labor categories proposed for each new Task Order.
• Team & Personnel Management: Manage a diverse technical team (e.g., engineers, architects, environmental SMEs), overseeing all personnel management functions including recruitment, performance assessments, mentoring, time and attendance, and verifying that all staff meet contractual qualifications prior to Task Order deployment.
• Project Planning & Scheduling: Develop and manage a master deployment schedule 30 days prior to fieldwork, avoiding operational disruptions such as holidays and testing windows. Issue formal written deployment notifications via electronic mail to DoWEA stakeholders at least three (3) weeks prior to mobilizing personnel at any facility
• Quality & Deliverable Control: Implement rigorous internal quality controls for all engineering, environmental, and facility data, overseeing the successful population of facility data into the Enterprise Sustainment Management System (E-SMS) within 90 days of site visits.
• Financial & Executive Reporting: Oversee and report overall IDIQ and individual Task Order performance and financial outcomes, including profit margin, utilization, and cost execution, directly to the Facilities and Infrastructure Support Services Managing Director.

Skills/

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate for the Project Manager position must possess strong leadership and organizational skills, with a proven track record in program support within a similar domain:

• Demonstrated expertise in managing overseas Department of Defense (DoD) or federal IDIQ contracts of comparable scope, integrating multiple concurrent Task Orders across wide geographical dispersion.
• Agility in managing both long-term cyclical schedules and emergent, on-demand field requirements, adeptly aligning resources to meet both planned and Out-of-Cycle demands.
• Strong leadership, communication, and logistical coordination skills, particularly in deploying personnel to OCONUS locations.
• Familiarity with USACE…