Installation Manager - 50% Travel

About the role

Parsis is seeking an Installation Manager to lead field installation teams supporting the FAA's National Airspace System.

Responsibilities

• Manage field teams performing installation, deployment, site preparation, integration support, and related field activities in active FAA operational environments.
• Provide leadership and coordination for assigned field engineers, electricians, electronics technicians, electronics installers, subcontractors, and other field personnel.
• Assign field staff to installation and site preparation activities based on project needs, schedule requirements, personnel qualifications, training, and availability.
• Maintain field execution progress against approved schedules, scopes of work, technical requirements, safety requirements, quality expectations, and customer commitments.
• Review engineering drawings, installation packages, scopes of work, site documentation, and other technical materials to confirm installation clarity and execution readiness.
• Develop or support project-specific execution plans, implementation plans, staffing plans, site readiness plans, and installation approaches.
• Interface with internal program teams, project managers, engineers, FAA stakeholders, subcontractors, vendors, and field personnel to determine the most effective approach for field project delivery.
• Prepare project-specific Risk Management Plans and related field planning materials to identify and mitigate safety, quality, schedule, technical, logistical, and operational risks.
• Anticipate installation challenges and work with clients, engineers, subcontractors, field staff, project managers, and program leadership to identify and implement corrective actions.
• Promote technical excellence and field quality through the application of Parsons quality assurance processes, installation standards, documentation requirements, and lessons learned.
• Coordinate with FAA customers and other government authorities as required to support site access, security requirements, operational coordination, and field work execution.
• Attend and lead site readiness meetings, installation kickoff meetings, field coordination meetings, weekly field staff meetings, and project status reviews.
• Make periodic trips to field sites during installation work to verify project scope, safety, quality, staffing, schedule, and execution requirements are being met.
• Develop regional, project-specific, and national-level status reports covering field execution progress, risks, staffing, schedule performance, issues, and upcoming work.
• Support preparation and submission of installation deliverables, field reports, completion documentation, and customer correspondence.
• Assist Program Management and Project Management with budget tracking, schedule monitoring, scope management, change order support, and analysis of field execution impacts.
• Maintain field staff timekeeping, travel voucher costs, field labor charging, and related administrative requirements for assigned personnel.
• Actively promote and enforce safety policies and ensure safety is integrated into planning, field execution, and installation jobsite monitoring.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree or related certification in a technical field (or equivalent) and typically 10+ years of related experience, including some experience in a lead capacity.
• Experience leading or coordinating field personnel such as field engineers, electricians, electronics technicians, electronics installers, construction personnel, subcontractors, or technical field crews.
• Ability to manage geographically dispersed field work across multiple sites, regions, project areas, or initiatives.
• Strong understanding of field safety, quality, installation planning, site readiness, schedule execution, and field documentation practices.
• Proven ability to perform in a lead capacity and coordinate technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to prepare reports, briefings, meeting materials, and formal presentations.
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.
• Ability to meet customer security requirements.

Desired Skills

• Experience with FAA, aviation, airport, air traffic control, transportation, telecommunications, utilities, Department of Defense, or other regulated field environments.
• Experience supporting installation or construction activities for communications, automation, surveillance radar, terminal infrastructure, power, cabling, network, or mission-critical systems.
• Familiarity with FAA facilities, National Airspace System operations, operational coordination requirements, site access processes, safety requirements, and security requirements.
• Experience managing field work in active operational environments where outages, access windows, customer coordination, and mission continuity are critical.
• Experience managing direct reports, matrixed field resources, subcontractors, or multi-discipline field teams.
• Experience developing installation plans, risk management plans, site readiness plans, staffing plans, and field execution schedules.
• Experience supporting project controls, including schedule tracking, labor planning, cost monitoring, travel cost management, change order support, and field progress reporting.
• Experience leading field meetings, customer coordination meetings, project readiness reviews, and installation status reviews.
• OSHA, PMP, construction management, electrical, electronics, telecommunications, or related technical certifications preferred but not required.