Senior Project Management Engineer – Bioscience

About the role

The Senior Project Management Engineer will lead and support the execution of milestone-driven, high-risk, high-reward national security projects in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments. This position sits at the intersection of project management rigor and technical fluency.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and direct technical tasks for highly complex, high-impact scientific and engineering efforts while using independent judgment to accomplish project objectives.
• Develop, maintain, and prioritize tasking across integrated technical project plans, schedules, milestones, and cross-project dependencies as part of a multi-institute team.
• Implement project controls to support cost, schedule, quality, and risk objectives, and solve highly complex risks and issues utilizing in-depth, multi-factor analysis.
• Facilitate effective communication, coordination, and alignment among internal teams, external collaborators, and Federal sponsors and synthesize and communicate technical information for reports, proposals, briefings, and milestone updates.
• Advise project leaders, technical teams, and senior managers on scope, organization, budgeting, scheduling, quality, risk, and deliverables.
• Cook up multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated execution across experimental, computational, engineering, and business functions and promote safe, compliant, and efficient project execution through application of technical and operational knowledge.
• Drive process improvement efforts to strengthen project execution, operational efficiency, and stakeholder coordination.
• Support procurement, fabrication, integration, contract coordination, and collaboration agreements as needed.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q-level security clearance, equivalent to a DoD Top Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, project management, or a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience working in a biological laboratory or experimental R&D environment.
• Experience managing large, complex technical projects with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to represent project status, risks, and needs directly to sponsors or senior stakeholders, with judgment to resolve issues independently or escalate appropriately to technical leads.
• Expert level application of project management tools, such as Microsoft Project.
• Expert level knowledge of project management methodologies and experience implementing project management tools and practices.
• Strong Expert verbal and written communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills to effectively document analyses, prepare, present, and explain technical information and advise senior management, external sponsors, regulators, reviewers, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment with initiative, creativity, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing and mentoring less experienced project managers.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q-level clearance, equivalent to a DoD Top Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, project management, or a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience working in a biological laboratory or experimental R&D environment.
• Experience managing large, complex technical projects with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to represent project status, risks, and needs directly to sponsors or senior stakeholders, with judgment to resolve issues independently or escalate appropriately to technical leads.
• Expert level application of project management tools, such as Microsoft Project.
• Expert level knowledge of project management methodologies and experience implementing project management tools and practices.
• Strong Expert verbal and written communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills to effectively document analyses, prepare, present, and explain technical information and advise senior management, external sponsors, regulators, reviewers, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment with initiative, creativity, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing and mentoring less experienced project managers.

Skills

• Expert level application of project management tools, such as Microsoft Project.
• Expert level knowledge of project management methodologies and experience implementing project management tools and practices.
• Strong Expert verbal and written communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$185,850 - $235,692 Annually

Schedule

Hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.