The ARA Transportation Infrastructure Division is looking for a staff project manager to join our team! This is an exciting opportunity to lead and assist a variety of highly technical research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) projects covering such topics as construction robotic systems, structural evaluation, construction process development, infrastructure resiliency, and other emerging technologies for both commercial and Department of Defense/Government customers.

As a staff project manager, you will be responsible for the performance of the project, including managing project budget, schedule, quality, and scope. The staff project manager ensures deliverables meet contract requirements and company policies, procedures, and guidelines.

You will lead a team of highly qualified engineers, technicians, and support staff in a dynamic environment throughout the entire project life cycle. In addition to managing the engineering and product development process, you will have an opportunity to interface with customers, deliver products, and grow our business.

As a staff project manager you will:

• Manage a product or project development team consisting of engineers, scientists, and technicians.
• Be accountable for meeting contract requirements.
• Manage a project schedule, scope, quality, and budget.
• Be accountable for ensuring design, verification, and validation goals are met for the technical objective.
• Support senior and principal project managers on specific tasks within more complex projects.
• Interface with customers, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Travel to customer sites for direct sales, project reviews, demonstrations, and other meetings as required.

Staff project manager required experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, or Systems Engineering or Construction Management. Relevant military experience may also be considered to meet this requirement.
• 2-4 years of related engineering or project management experience.
• Understanding of CPM (Critical Path Method) scheduling using computer tools—Microsoft Project, P6, etc.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office.
• Effective in both verbal and written communications.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Preferred experience and skills:

• Experience in full project life cycle from contracting through project close out.
• Experience with DoD-specific process and procedure for project management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or equivalent.
• Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience.
• Technical writing skills.

About ARA:

ARA is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2,000 employee-owners and continues to grow. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees contributions not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)