Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems is an international defense, aerospace, and security company delivering technology, intelligence, and information security solutions, with its Intelligence & Security organization based in McLean, Virginia. The Enterprise Project Manager will manage the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closing of multiple enterprise projects involving mission-critical high-performance computing infrastructure, integrations, implementations, and software development. The role also oversees project schedules, resources, financial performance, supply chain activities, risks, stakeholder communications, and software change management in a controlled environment.
Responsibilities
- Developing, coordinating, and tracking projects from the customer and initiating and executing approved projects to include integration, installation, and maintenance activities. Project Manager will be assigned multiple ongoing projects
- Create, manage, and track the project scope, schedule, resource assignments, technical and financial performance and compliance and other project specific deliverables as required for all assigned projects
- Integrate multiple enterprise level projects and teams, set project goals and create plans and schedules to meet those goals
- Prepare reports and communications with customers and internal project teams. Organize and host meetings to discuss project goals and progress
- Manage the project supply chain activities in accordance with contract requirements and ensure technical, schedule, cost, and financial performance of the procurements are met
- Act as the interlocutor between multiple Customer groups to ensure that all aspects of projects are progressing and completing according to scope and schedule and in accordance with Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) and contract policies and processes
- Creating and coordinating associated project schedules for incorporation into the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) using MS Project
- Conduct risk assessments and plan mitigations for all assigned projects
- Manage customer, vendor, and user relationships and ensuring compliance with quality standards and escalate challenges to leadership
- Manage Software Change Management activities, including facilitating review boards, coordinating status updates for changes and ensuring processes are understood and followed
- Coordinating with and briefing the customer, customer clients and other groups involved in the support of software systems and tools
- Managing Key Performance Indicators (KPI), from determining critical path to tracking those efforts to on-time completion
Skills
- Bachelors and six (6) years or more of related experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience
- Experience in Project Management Professional (PMP) methodologies, best practices, and MS Project software
- PMP Certification required
- Experience to independently coordinate, interact, and communicate with technical support staff from multiple disciplines across multiple geographically separated sites
- Experience to meet regularly with project teams, management, customers and clients and other stakeholders to keep them informed about all assigned projects
- Excellent communication/presentation skills to coordinate and facilitate project meetings, online meetings, direct phone communications, and produce written correspondence to ensure main action points are communicated to relevant program managers and project team members
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with the ability to manage competing project demands, schedules, resources and customer requirements with strict deadlines
- Proven organizational skills to be able to assess the current state of assigned projects, understand, identify, and resolve risks. Ability to prepare risk assessment and provide risk mitigation strategies
- MS Project and Excel skills are required
- Prior experience managing projects in a multi-location, enterprise environment
- A good understanding of Software Development methodology such as DevSecOps, and SAFe
- Ability to identify, define, create, and publish project management processes
Benefits
- Remote position that can be accomplished from anywhere in the continental US.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: health, dental, and vision insurance.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: health savings accounts.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: a 401(k) savings plan.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: disability coverage.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: life and accident insurance.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: an employee assistance program.
- For regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week: a legal plan.
- Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- Paid military leave.
- Paid bereavement leave.
- Applicable federal and state sick leave.
- Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards.
- Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
- Temporary employees can elect to participate in the 401(k) savings plan.
- Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for medical benefits.
- Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for the employee assistance program.
- Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for business travel accident insurance.
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