Project Manager

Project Manager

Active Security designs, develops, implements, and sustains advanced C5ISR and security solutions to enhance defense and mission capabilities, addressing threats across physical, electronic, cyber, and communications security for Mission Critical Commercial and U.S. Government clients. Our teams are essential in installing, programming, maintaining, and repairing these complex systems in high-security environments, ensuring compliance with codes, client specifications, and internal standards.

The role of Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize government projects in accordance with contract requirements, strict quality standards, deadlines, and budget, while maintaining the highest levels of safety, security compliance, and customer satisfaction. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members, subcontractors, and vendors in order to deliver projects according to plan, budget, and contract.

The Project Manager defines the project's objectives, oversees quality control throughout its life cycle, and ensures compliance with federal acquisition requirements, government security protocols, and applicable codes and standards. The Project Manager works closely with the Program Management Office, the Executive Team, and government stakeholders, including Contracting Officers and Contracting Officer's Representatives, to ensure timely, compliant, and quality completion of the integration process, and to support strategies for the capture and acquisition of new government work.

Essential Duties & Functions:

Project Delivery & Controls

• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end, in accordance with contract terms and delivery requirements.
• Define project scope and deliverables that support contract objectives and business goals in collaboration with executive and program management.
• Develop project plans and schedules, and identify and manage project dependencies and the critical path.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools, and track milestones and deliverables.
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project life cycle.

Government Contract & Compliance Management

• Ensure project execution complies with the contract, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR/DFARS), the Performance Work Statement or Statement of Work, and applicable government security and quality requirements.
• Coordinate with Contracting Officers (KO), Contracting Officer's Representatives (COR), and government program stakeholders on scope, deliverables, and contract data requirements (CDRLs).
• Prepare and submit contract deliverables, status reports, and invoicing documentation through required government systems (for example, PIEE / WAWF).
• Manage Government Furnished Equipment and Property (GFE/GFP) and the handling of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) consistent with NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC requirements.
• Ensure work performed in classified, sensitive, or controlled environments, including SCIFs, adheres to ICD 705 and applicable physical security standards.
• Manage site access, badging, and clearance requirements for project personnel at government installations.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion, and communicate with government customers on an ongoing basis.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and customers.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Issue status reports to the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.

Team Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and subcontractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Build, develop, and grow business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Conduct project lessons-learned meetings and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Support proposal and capture efforts, including basis of estimate, task order responses, and technical input for new government pursuits.

Requirements

Experience:

• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably including federal or DoD projects. Government contracting experience strongly preferred; commercial general contracting and Design-Build experience a plus.
• 3+ years in integrated electronic security (technical background a plus).
• Experience delivering projects on government installations or in classified, sensitive, or controlled environments.

Knowledge & Compliance

• Working knowledge of federal contracting fundamentals, including FAR/DFARS, contract types (FFP, T&M, CPFF), IDIQ and task-order structures, CDRLs, and GFE/GFP management.
• Familiarity with government security and compliance frameworks, including NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC. Familiarity with ICD 705 and SCIF construction standards is a plus.

Tools & Software

• Strong familiarity with project management software: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), Adobe, Smartsheet, and Bluebeam.
• Strong familiarity with professional services management software: ConnectWise.

Certifications & Clearance

• OSHA 30 certification required. PMP certification strongly preferred, or the ability to obtain it.
• Active U.S. Government security clearance, or the ability to obtain and maintain one (Secret or higher preferred).
• U.S. citizenship required for security clearance eligibility and government facility access.
• Ability to travel to and work on-site at government facilities as required.