IT Project Manager

About the role

Mantis Security is a leading specialty firm of high‑caliber talent who specialize in Cyber Operations, Cyber Defense, Information Assurance, Software Development, DevSecOps, Security Engineering, and Cloud Engineering. We enable and protect our nation's most important IT assets and invest in the long‑term career development of every employee! We are currently looking for the next IT Project Manager to join our team of experts.

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, and coordinate computer‑related activities including electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming.
• Perform day‑to‑day management of the program and develop long‑term and strategic objectives to ensure that end‑user requirements will be satisfied in future years of the contract.
• Perform horizontal integration planning and interface with other functional areas, ensuring that technical solutions and schedules are implemented in a timely manner.
• Provide management of contract personnel, ensuring high‑quality and acceptable task completion and deliverables within their contract in compliance with the SOW.
• Provide frequent periodic reports on the status of contractor staffing.
• Serve as point of contact for non‑routine to moderately complex installation projects for communication networks.
• Accountable for meeting contractual performance criteria and due dates during service delivery, and for successful overall project completion.
• Coordinate activities in support of program managers and teams that provision, design, install, maintain, and bill for services.
• Track and monitor service orders through completion and turn‑up, and prepare deliverables.
• Estimate effort, cost, and schedule for complex projects.
• Create project management plans for IT infrastructure projects; monitor PjMP implementation progress and cost against the plan.
• Escalate removal of blockers to progress and resolve issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional six (6) years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience in addition to education level.
• Current PMP certification.
• Experience working in a DoD or IC environment desired.
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.