Technical Project Manager - Aviation Weather Systems

About the role

Join Peraton in advancing the safety, efficiency, and modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS) through the FAA's Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) contract. As a trusted partner to the Federal Aviation Administration, Peraton helps deliver the systems and services that keep our nation's skies safe and connected. We're looking for innovative professionals who thrive in mission-critical environments and are passionate about shaping the future of air traffic management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Weather Workstream Lead to plan, coordinate, and execute activities supporting the Weather Needs Package.
• Manage day-to-day technical project execution, ensuring activities remain aligned with program objectives, schedules, and customer priorities.
• Coordinate desktop evaluations, engineering analyses, field site surveys, and technical assessments supporting AWOS, VWOS, WCAM, and other aviation weather initiatives.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, action item trackers, risk registers, and technical deliverable schedules.
• Cook up multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure technical products are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination for field survey planning, logistics, travel, site access, and stakeholder communications.
• Support preparation, quality review, and delivery of technical reports, engineering recommendations, requirements documentation, and implementation packages.
• Cook up technical discussions with FAA representatives, engineering organizations, subcontractors, and installation partners.
• Track technical issues, project risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions through resolution.
• Translate customer requirements and field observations into actionable engineering tasks and project deliverables.
• Coordinate procurement planning by identifying long-lead materials, equipment dependencies, and implementation constraints.
• Cook up closely with Engineering, Quality, Safety, Cybersecurity, Contracts, Logistics, Procurement, and Program Controls.
• Aid in the development of implementation strategies, migration planning, and technical transition activities.
• Maintain traceability between customer requirements, engineering recommendations, site survey findings, project decisions, and final deliverables.
• Support project reviews, customer briefings, status reporting, and executive-level communications.
• Recommend process improvements that enhance project execution, documentation quality, and schedule performance.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD, 12 years in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex technical projects involving engineering, infrastructure modernization, telecommunications, aviation systems, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across multiple organizations.
• Experience managing technical schedules, risks, action items, deliverables, and customer communications.
• Experience developing engineering documentation, technical reports, implementation plans, requirements packages, or acquisition documentation.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities in dynamic environments.
• Experience working directly with Government customers and senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications:
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD, 12 years in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex technical projects involving engineering, infrastructure modernization, telecommunications, aviation systems, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across multiple organizations.
• Experience managing technical schedules, risks, action items, deliverables, and customer communications.
• Experience developing engineering documentation, technical reports, implementation plans, requirements packages, or acquisition documentation.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities in dynamic environments.
• Experience working directly with Government customers and senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting the FAA, Department of Transportation, or National Airspace System modernization programs.
• Experience with aviation weather systems including AWOS, ASOS, VWOS, WCAM, weather sensors, environmental monitoring systems, or related airport infrastructure.
• Experience coordinating remote field site surveys, engineering assessments, or installation activities.
• Knowledge of airport communications, networking, power infrastructure, environmental systems, and site readiness considerations.
• Familiarity with FAA engineering, quality assurance, configuration management, safety, and acquisition processes.
• Experience managing subcontractors, equipment vendors, and installation contractors.
• Experience supporting system implementation, testing, integration, and operational transition.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience using Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project management tools.
• Agile experience is desirable; however, the primary focus of this role is technical project execution and engineering coordination.

Details

Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.