Scientific Research Project Manager

Summary

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for a Scientific Research Project Managerto support the Injury Biomechanics and Protection Group (IBPG) of the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) to provide the scientific, programmatic, and technical support to allow responsive, high quality, and timely mission accomplishment within a flexible and changing environment.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Creativity and the ability to work effectively in a team environment are expected.
• Provide research and coordination services within minimal direction related to the Injury Biomechanics RDT&E efforts, including the development of schedules, research plans and protocol documentation, data reviews, and presentations and publications according to policy and procedures of the USAARL.  All aspects of RDT&E are included, such as Human Subject Research, Research Not Involving Human Subjects (RNIHS), cadaveric studies, and Test and Evaluations.
• Be responsible for the organization, coordination, and completion of projects. 
• Oversee all aspects of projects assigned to research teams. 
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor project progress in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk, and prepare reports for upper management regarding project status.
• Lead and direct the work of others and coordinate the input and work of cross-functional teams as needed to accomplish project goals.
• Perform administrative and coordination duties and responsibilities independently based on broad guidance, taskers, objectives, and/or SOPs provided by the Government through the Injury Research Facilitator and/or Group Leadership as well as use individual initiative to support research projects. 
• Provide administrative coordination services to fulfill a variety of research projects, grant, and program requirements and timelines.
• Support the research and test project needs of the Injury Biomechanics PIs, Injury Research Facilitator, and technical staff.
• Proactively provide suggestions and implement improvements in identified administrative, project coordination, and financial procedures. 
• Draft, format, and edit technical and scientific documents (or presentations) independently after guidance or input from technical staff, locate technical materials needed for new documents (or presentations). 
• Compile responses to daily, weekly, and monthly taskers and write or compile project progress updates and reports in format required by lab or project requirements.
• Organize, plan, and communicate locations, times, schedules, and agendas for teleconferences, VTCs, meetings, and visitors related to research projects.
• Ensure timely delivery of documents, data, and/or physical items to external collaborators, sponsors, and/or customers.
• Develop project work plans, budgets, and timelines from technical staff input and track technical and financial progress against plans, budgets, and timelines.
• Enter and/or update administrative/financial/logistic data into existing spreadsheets and databases or create new spreadsheets and databases to assist with task completion and use available resources to identify data and research needs.
• Oversee a team entering scientific/engineering/medical data, metadata, digitize hard copies, manage digital data, create archival copies, and perform quality control on data, metadata assignment, and other data-related and administrative tasks performed by others.
• Perform other data-related and research equipment/facilities support functions, including physical packing, moving, shipping, inventory, relocation, and re-organization, as needed.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders, academia, industry, and customers on biomechanical/biomedical projects, products, and knowledge solutions to maintain, develop, and support programmatic and scientific objectives.
• Conduct injury biomechanics research with equipment and in field settings that may create potentially hazardous conditions.
• On written authority of the Laboratory Commander, fly on military aircraft or ride in military vehicles in the official conduct of duties of the position.
• May travel CONUS or O-CONUS to conduct RDT&E (data collections), attend working groups meetings, training, workshops, conferences, or other relevant meetings.  Expect multiple data collections or events per year.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• May work variable work hours to meet performance requirements (e.g., proposal and reporting deadlines, collaborations, and lab and field data collections), including occasional night and weekend hours.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a state-issued driver’s license for independent travel to restricted meetings and field-data collection locations.
• Demonstrated project management experience within a scientific, medical research, engineering, or other related technical environment.
• Demonstrated familiarity with the concepts, practices, and procedures of the scientific or technical field being managed, with the ability to apply that knowledge to the planning and management of research or technical projects.
• Experience managing projects through completion, including setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and leading or directing the work of others to accomplish project goals.
• Successfully pass background and drug screening

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior engineering experience in biomechanics or laboratory-based biomedical research environments is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Work independently with minimal to no direction to plan, coordinate, and accomplish individual and team goals. 
• Possess scientific and project management skills applicable to projects focused on preventing Soldier injury and improving Soldier protection.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated professionalism.

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $98,000.00/Yr. Up to USD $108,000.00/Yr.