Project Manager III

What You'll Do

• Own assigned projects from award through successful completion, with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, labor, resources, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Establish clear project objectives, responsibilities, deadlines, and success criteria.
• Manage project scope and ensure proposed changes or scope creep are identified, documented, evaluated, and approved by the appropriate stakeholders.
• Adjust project plans and resource allocations as priorities, requirements, or project conditions change.
• Maintain visibility into project progress and ensure teams remain aligned with contractual and organizational expectations.
• Lead cross-functional and multi-disciplinary project teams with a focus on accountability, collaboration, communication, and results.
• Set clear expectations for project team members and ensure responsibilities and deadlines are understood.
• Facilitate effective project meetings that drive decisions, ownership, and measurable next steps.
• Identify roadblocks and proactively work with team members and leadership to resolve them.
• Foster an environment where issues are raised early rather than becoming last-minute surprises.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for project stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide clear, accurate, and timely updates regarding project status, milestones, risks, budget, schedule, and deliverables.
• Coordinate communication between project teams, customers, leadership, external vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Manage expectations and escalate significant risks, delays, resource constraints, or changes when appropriate.
• Proactively identify project risks, dependencies, constraints, and potential obstacles.
• Develop and maintain mitigation and contingency plans.
• Monitor risks throughout the project lifecycle and communicate emerging concerns before they impact delivery.
• Escalate critical risks with recommended solutions and clearly defined next steps.
• Track project performance using established project management tools, metrics, and reporting processes.
• Monitor task completion, milestones, budgets, labor hours, schedules, and resource utilization.
• Identify at-risk activities and implement corrective actions or recovery plans.
• Use project data to identify trends, forecast challenges, and support informed decision-making.
• Ensure project information and reporting remain accurate and current.
• Ensure project deliverables meet established quality standards, contractual requirements, customer expectations, and specifications.
• Partner with project teams to identify and resolve quality concerns before final delivery.
• Support continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and applying them to future projects.
• Maintain comprehensive and audit-ready project documentation, including project plans, schedules, budgets, meeting records, status reports, decisions, risks, and change documentation.
• Prepare agendas, meeting notes, action items, project summaries, and leadership updates.
• Ensure project records accurately reflect project decisions, commitments, and status.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in project management, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5+ years of progressive project management experience, preferably managing complex, technical, government, defense, software, simulation, or similarly structured projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects with responsibility for budgets, schedules, labor, resources, risks, and deliverables.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, processes, and project controls.
• Proven ability to identify risks, solve problems, manage competing priorities, and drive projects to completion.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business leaders, customers, and external partners.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment where priorities and requirements may evolve.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, CAPM, Scrum, Agile, or other recognized project management certification.
• Experience supporting U.S. Government or Department of Defense contracts and customers.
• Familiarity with government contracting requirements, project cost controls, and compliance-driven environments.
• Experience managing software development, XR/VR, simulation, training, technology, or other technical projects.
• Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies.
• Travel required up to 30% of the time.