Jr. Construction Project Manager

Amentum is looking for a Junior Project Manager to join our team in Springfield, VA to support our mission critical customer.

Purpose and Scope:

Responsible for overall operation of a project/contract to include the safety and well-being of its employees, safeguarding company funds and property, and generally represents the company with respect to the customer

Essential Responsibilities:
 

• Working under the supervision of a senior PM or above demonstrates and provides project leadership in their area of responsibility.
• Identify potential project problems or opportunities, analyze the issues using all appropriate resources, develop alternatives, and arrive at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities.
• Ensures development and adherence to the project Work Breakdown Structure, Asset Management, and Workflow Management elements.
• Expand the Project Execution Plan for subsequent phases (Project Initiation, Project Execution, Construction, etc.) and communicates and coordinates the implementation of the enhancements with the project team.
• Establish track and report status against key performance indicators or contractual metrics on a routine basis.
• Participate in the establishment of project organizational structure in support of proposal efforts.
• Demonstrates command of the schedule goals, key milestones, and approach to the work embodied in the schedule.
• Ensures that a firm scope-based schedule baseline is established and properly resourced.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the schedule tools, procedures, and work process.
• Reviews, reports and manages key performance measures defined within the contract. Implements corrective measures when measures are outside service levels or bandwidths.
• Consistently meets or improves upon the established schedule goals in their area of responsibility.
• Manages performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans.
• Establishes annual operating budgets in cooperation with customer, business manager or group financial department.
• Provides accurate monthly forecasts of cost, schedule, and resource utilization.
• Works with Business Development to increase scope of services on existing contracts.
• Supports BD, and Group management in Contract negotiations with customers.
• Supports or conducts formal presentations to clients and/or management.

Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.

Minimum Position Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction, Project, Facility Management or other relevant discipline.
• Demonstrated equivalent and 2 years relative experience applicable in field of operations, maintenance, construction, civil engineering, and/or MEC-related activities.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is recommended. Safety Trained Supervisor (STS) certification is recommended.
• MEC experience including working on Operational and Test Ranges performing range clearance operations is a plus.
• Good oral and written communication skills; working knowledge of word-processing and integrated software applications; organizational skills and ability to perform detail-oriented work are required.
• Must be a US Citizen, Have a Secret clearance and the ability to upgrade to a TS/SCI.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans and Labor Laws Posters.