Federal Program Manager (Anchorage)

Title: FEDERAL PROGRAM MANAGER

Reports to: VP of CONSTRUCTION

Annual Salary: $140K to $175K+ DOE

Since 1993, Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc. has fostered a flexible approach to commercial construction based on cooperation, innovation, and accountability. A 100% Alaskan-owned, managed, and staffed company, our team has the experience, relationships, and resources to manage projects of all sizes throughout Alaska.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Federal Program Manager is accountable for the growth, performance, and long-term success of Cornerstone's federal construction portfolio. This position provides program-level leadership across federal pursuits, contracts, and active projects; directly supervises the Federal Project Manager; and ensures the federal portfolio achieves established growth, profitability, contractual, schedule, quality, safety, compliance, and client-service objectives.

Working with Executive Leadership, Business Development, Preconstruction, and Operations, the Federal Program Manager identifies where Cornerstone should compete, develops federal agency and industry relationships, leads capture and teaming strategies, aligns resources across pursuits and active projects, and provides oversight from opportunity identification through project closeout.

The Federal Project Manager and assigned project teams remain responsible for day-to-day project execution. The Federal Program Manager maintains visibility across the entire federal portfolio, establishes expectations, evaluates performance and risk, allocates resources, and intervenes when individual project or program conditions could affect Cornerstone's broader federal objectives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Federal Program & Portfolio Performance

• Lead Cornerstone's federal construction program as an integrated portfolio of pursuits, contracts, task orders, and active projects.
• Establish program priorities and performance expectations and maintain visibility of backlog, pipeline, staffing, resources, project health, and significant risks across the federal portfolio.
• Evaluate performance across federal projects and intervene when financial, contractual, schedule, quality, safety, compliance, staffing, or client-service results vary materially from established expectations.
• Coordinate staffing and resources across pursuits and active projects to support sustainable growth and successful project delivery.

Federal Growth, Capture & Client Relationships

• Lead the continued growth of Cornerstone's federal portfolio by connecting market intelligence, client relationships, competitive strategy, and operational capability.
• Identify and qualify federal opportunities and lead capture planning, competitive positioning, teaming strategy, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Direct operational input into proposals, technical narratives, pricing strategies, schedules, staffing plans, and pursuit risk assessments.
• Develop and maintain relationships with Contracting Officers, CORs, Resident Engineers, agency leadership, teaming partners, and industry stakeholders that support successful delivery, competitive positioning, and repeat opportunities.
• Represent Cornerstone in strategic client meetings, partnering sessions, interviews, presentations, negotiations, debriefs, and industry events.

Financial Performance & Risk Management

• Consolidate and evaluate project budgets, forecasts, backlog, pipeline, cash flow, profitability, resource requirements, and financial risk across the federal portfolio.
• Review project forecasts, cost projections, changes, and recovery plans with federal project leadership and require corrective action when performance varies from established expectations.
• Maintain program-level visibility of significant contractual, financial, schedule, compliance, and client risks and ensure appropriate mitigation, escalation, and executive involvement.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight of significant Requests for Equitable Adjustment (REAs), claims, modifications, and contract issues to protect Cornerstone's contractual and financial interests.

Federal Contracts, Compliance & Quality

• Provide program-level leadership and guidance regarding federal contracts, task orders, modifications, acquisition requirements, and applicable contract clauses.
• Establish consistent expectations and controls for compliance with FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, EM 385-1-1, Davis-Bacon, Buy America, project-specific requirements, and other applicable federal requirements.
• Establish program-wide expectations for quality control, project documentation, reporting, safety, and compliance.
• Support federal project leadership, Quality Control Managers, Site Safety & Health Officers, and other responsible personnel in resolving significant compliance, quality, contractual, or performance concerns.
• Identify recurring compliance or performance issues across projects and implement program-level improvements when appropriate.

Project Oversight & Operational Performance

• Provide program-level oversight and direction to the Federal Project Manager and federal project teams while maintaining clear accountability for day-to-day project execution at the project-leadership level.
• Conduct recurring project-health reviews addressing financial performance, schedule, contracts and changes, staffing, quality, safety, compliance, client relationships, and significant project risks.
• Evaluate project recovery and corrective-action plans when performance varies from established expectations and monitor implementation through resolution.
• Align project needs with organizational resources and elevate significant issues requiring Executive Leadership involvement.
• Promote consistent federal project-management practices and lessons learned across Cornerstone's federal portfolio.

Leadership, Talent & Organizational Development

• Directly supervise, coach, evaluate, and hold accountable the Federal Project Manager while providing program-level leadership to Project Managers, Project Engineers, Superintendents, and other personnel assigned to federal work.
• Establish clear expectations for leadership, reporting, decision-making, financial performance, contract compliance, risk management, and client service across the federal program.
• Identify staffing and capability requirements necessary to support current work, backlog, and anticipated federal growth.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, succession planning, development, and retention of the leadership and technical capabilities required to sustain Cornerstone's federal portfolio.
• Provide Executive Leadership with clear reporting and recommendations regarding program health, financial performance, pipeline, pursuits, staffing, resources, risk, client relationships, growth priorities, and organizational needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible commercial construction experience.
• 7+ years leading federal construction projects, programs, or portfolios.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent projects for USACE, NAVFAC, DoD, FAA, VA, GSA, or other federal agencies.
• Demonstrated experience applying federal acquisition, contracting, compliance, capture, and proposal requirements to federal construction pursuits and project execution.
• Demonstrated responsibility for financial performance, forecasting, risk management, and corrective action across multiple concurrent construction projects or a construction portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience directly supervising Project Managers or comparable construction leaders and holding them accountable for financial performance, schedules, contracts, client relationships, and risk.
• Working knowledge and demonstrated application of EM 385-1-1 requirements in federal construction environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain installation access and security clearances as required.

Preferred

• 12+ years of progressively responsible commercial construction experience.
• Experience leading a portfolio of design-build federal construction projects.
• Experience winning and executing MATOCs, SATOCs, IDIQ contracts, and competitive task orders.
• Quality Control certification applicable to USACE/NAVFAC construction.
• Experience developing or implementing federal capture strategies that resulted in awarded work.
• Established professional relationships with federal agencies, teaming partners, and industry stakeholders in Alaska.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those required to perform the essential functions of this position.

This position requires the ability to perform office-based work and periodically access active construction sites, including walking over uneven surfaces, climbing stairs, and wearing required personal protective equipment.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

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