Description

The Integrated Systems Division at Leidos has an opening for a Project Manager to support a client’s requirements in a challenging and dynamic setting located at Schriever AFB in Colorado Springs. The candidate will be required to possess demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to work constructively and collaboratively across multiple functional and technical areas to achieve a positive impact on explicitly stated and implicit program goals and business results. This position requires an active TS/SCI security clearance with a Polygraph.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the customer’s launch planning process by providing requirements definition and project planning support.

• Collaborate with launch customers to define launch communications requirements, engineer solutions, and develop supporting documentation.

• Develop project plans, schedules and timelines.

• Lead project through customer milestones and reviews.

• Perform technical writing on project documentation.

• Track project tasks and action items.

• Develop and present briefings as required.

• Produce project status reports.

• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all engineering and maintenance documentation required to support a launch project.

• Collaborate with technicians to ensure IT requirements are met.

• Assist technicians to ensure readiness of systems to support launch activities.

• Collaborate with configuration management team to ensure accuracy and completeness of CM documentation such as facility maps, site floor plans, rack elevations, patch panel, equipment shelf layouts, system overviews, circuit drawings.

• Attend working groups (WGs), Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) and participate in Integrated Product Team (IPTs).

• Assess staffing requirements and IT deployment delivery times to identify lead times.

• Support launch communications testing and rehearsal activities.

• Coordinate development of project deliverables and products.

• Ensures quality assurance of project deliverables.

• Directs all activities in support of defined launch communications checks with all participating stakeholders.

• Documents, tracks and provides launch project lessons learned.

Basic Qualifications

• United States’ citizen with current TS/SCI access with a poly
• Requires a Bachelors degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or a Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience. Technical experience will be considered in lieu of a degree and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
• Project Management
• ITIL Framework
• Knowledge of Federal government standards and guidelines 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to lead collaboratively and constructively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a project manager on a small program
• Experience as a Project Manager on a multi-faceted project
• Customer Launch Support experience
• Mission-specific technical knowledge
• Security certification
• PMP certification

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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