Project Manager Mission Ground Segment

Job Summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a world leader in remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars. They are seeking a Project Manager with a focus on sensor and mission management efforts within their Mission Systems team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create project plan(s) and manage resources to ensure project schedule, budget, quality, and specification goals are attained.
• Oversee and monitor project schedule, timelines, and milestones from initiation to delivery to meet delivery goals.
• Cook up and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Collaborate across management and project team to expand services and potential business opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with environmental and other regulations.
• Identify and assess project issues and develop solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to employees working on assigned project(s).
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely fashion.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors in Business Administration or related discipline and eleven or more years of progressively complex experience in the project administration field with at least five of those years in project management.
• Extensive software development experience preferred.
• Previous senior software developer or Lead experience preferred.
• Demonstrates technical expertise and application of project management principles, concepts, and practice as well as project management and leadership skills including organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones.
• Ability to quickly pick up hardware and software concepts is desired.
• Knowledge and/or hands-on involvement with one or more DoD Open System Architectures (e.g., FACE, OMS, UCI, UCS) is desired.
• Familiarity with Cost Plus, Firm Fixed Price, and T&M contract types is desired.
• Experience with US export compliance practices is desired.
• Expertise working with airborne sensors (imagers, radars, signals intercept, lasers, etc.) is desired.
• Understanding of intelligence tasking, collection, production, exploitation, and dissemination is desired.
• Must be able to develop solutions to problems that require coordination of technologies across project requirements.
• Customer focused, must be able to work on a self-initiated basis and in a team environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance is required.