Regional Project Manager

Location: Norfolk, VA

Salary Range: $140K to $165K

Position Description

Lead the execution and scaling of regional Telecommunications Utility and Grid projects supporting U.S. Navy installation telecommunications infrastructure, ensuring alignment with mission requirements, modernization objectives, and long-range sustainment strategies. Serve as the senior lead for a portfolio of regional telecommunications infrastructure projects, overseeing planning, engineering, deployment, operations, maintenance, lifecycle modernization, and capital improvement initiatives across multiple installations. Provide executive‑level leadership and stakeholder engagement across Navy leadership, installation organizations, and industry partners, coordinating complex regional projects involving military construction, infrastructure investment, and telecommunications utility governance. Act as a business‑to‑technology translator, aligning operational, engineering, and leadership priorities while implementing governance frameworks, roles and responsibilities, and organizational accountability across regional telecommunications programs. Lead regional modernization projects involving Outside Plant (OSP), premise cabling, fiber‑optic infrastructure, optical/IP networking, routing and switching, and telecommunications utility systems to meet performance, security, resiliency, and availability requirements. Direct regional sustainment and operational projects, including break/fix services, outage restoration, service delivery, and facility power integration, ensuring mission‑critical telecommunications capabilities remain available and reliable. Ensure all regional projects comply with federal laws, FCC regulations, DoD instructions, Navy standards, safety requirements, and QA/QC processes, including risk management, engineering reviews, lifecycle documentation, and infrastructure asset management. Lead deployment and integration of a government‑controlled Operational Digital Twin (ODT) across the region, supporting infrastructure visibility, engineering decision‑making, resource planning, asset management, outage analysis, and mission assurance.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading telecommunications utility infrastructure and network engineering initiatives, including OSP, premise cabling, optical/IP networking, routing and switching, network architecture, and troubleshooting.
• 10+ years of experience managing technical teams, supervisors, and managers supporting complex telecommunications and infrastructure programs.
• Proven experience managing large‑scale, multi‑site telecommunications infrastructure projects through planning, acquisition, implementation, modernization, operations, and sustainment phases.
• Strong understanding of telecommunications engineering principles, infrastructure standards, lifecycle management, documentation, QA/QC practices, and safety compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge engineering, infrastructure, operational, and business requirements to deliver reliable mission‑critical telecommunications services.
• Experience managing telecommunications operations, maintenance programs, outage restoration, service delivery, and infrastructure modernization initiatives across multiple locations.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, priorities, and stakeholders within government, military, or mission‑critical environments.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills with the executive presence to influence senior leaders, customers, and technical teams.

Security Requirement

Must possess, or be able to obtain and maintain, an active U.S. Government Secret (S) or Top Secret (TS) security clearance and all required access credentials.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Education and Professional Training
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Employee Referral and Merit Recognition Programs
• Employee Assistance and Identity Theft Protection
• Paid Holidays: 11 per year
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Disability Insurance

About ActioNet

ActioNet, Inc. is a woman‑owned IT engineering services firm with a workforce that is over 65 % veterans. The company has been recognized as a Top Workplace for 13 consecutive years (2014‑2025) and has received the Top Workplace for Commuter Award five years in a row. ActioNet follows PMI methodologies and ITIL best practices, and holds certifications including CMMC V2.0 Level 2, CMMI‑DEV® V3.0 Level 4, CMMI‑SVC® V3.0 Level 4, CMMI‑SEC® V3.0 Level 4, CMMI‑DATA® V3.0 Level 4, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 20000‑1:2018, ISO 9001:2015, and HDI Certified Support Center.