Senior Facilities Project/Program Manager

PotomacWave is looking for a Senior Facilities Project/Program Manager to join our team supporting a Federal client in Washington, DC. The individual supporting this position will provide integrated project management, space and workforce planning, design-requirements coordination, network and telecommunications infrastructure project coordination, and related advisory and assistance services.

This role will support assigned construction, renovation, maintenance, facilities upgrade, infrastructure, and office-move projects. This includes workforce planning, space programming, Directorate design requirements, architecture and engineering, construction, furniture and equipment, secure and nonsecure network and telecommunications services, physical security, records, logistics, and post-occupancy support.

Responsibilities:

• Provide a single, integrated management capability for assigned projects and timely, decision-ready information on scope, schedule, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, changes, and performance.
• Coordinate facilities work with secure and nonsecure information technology and telecommunications requirements throughout planning, design, construction, move, testing, and occupancy.
• Serve as the principal point of contact for assigned projects; define objectives, scope, requirements, constraints, assumptions, deliverables, and acceptance criteria; and maintain fit-for-purpose project plans.
• Manage schedules, resources, cost tracking, requirements, changes, risks, issues, stakeholders, communications, quality, records, transition, and closeout.
• Maintain integrated schedules showing dependencies, milestones, decisions, responsible organizations, critical-path and long-lead activities, testing, acceptance, moves, and occupancy; monitor performance and promptly report forecast variances.
• Research root causes; document risks, issues, findings, actions, decisions, and changes; recommend solutions; lead mitigation and recovery planning; and adapt to approved shifts in priorities, requirements, resources, and timelines.
• Coordinate authorized stakeholders and vendors supporting construction, maintenance, furniture, equipment, telephones, networks, printers, audiovisual services, and other project needs. Integrate their activities into the schedule without providing contractual direction.
• Prepare management briefings and maintain complete project artifacts and records. Support completion on schedule, within authorized resources, and in accordance with approved requirements.
• Maintain an accurate, Directorate-validated count of current personnel and a rolling two-year forecast of new employees, vacancies, contractors, and other personnel requiring workspace. Translate validated workforce information into seating, shared space, support-space, and move requirements.
• Work with each Directorate to gather, document, reconcile, and validate functional, technical, operational, adjacency, furniture, equipment, accessibility, information technology, telecommunications, and security-related design requirements. Coordinate reviews, document decisions and changes, and identify conflicts between requirements and available space, schedule, infrastructure, or resources.
• Using Government-approved capacity and mission assumptions, assess the difference between validated SCIF demand and available capacity; support development of Directorate allocation and occupancy options; and document operational, schedule, infrastructure, and workforce impacts. Support authorized Government officials in identifying and evaluating potential satellite SCIF alternatives; developing requirements and comparative analyses; coordinating site assessments and design inputs; and maintaining integrated implementation, readiness, contingency, and move plans. 
• Gather and document secure and nonsecure network, telecommunications, printer, audiovisual, cabling, pathway, power, cooling, testing, and service-date requirements. Coordinate these requirements with floor plans, furniture, construction, equipment, moves, security readiness, and occupancy; identify long-lead activities and dependencies; maintain deployment schedules; and coordinate authorized installation, cutover, testing, rollback, contingency, and post-move issue resolution.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in facilities management, engineering, architecture, construction management, information technology, telecommunications, project management, business administration, or a related field from an accredited institution
• Minimum of ten (10) years of related experience.
• Project management experience required with office moves and facilities upgrades, including IT and telecommunications impacts; experience in a classified environment and with classified IT infrastructure; federal-government experience; skill in scope, requirements, schedules, resources, risks, issues, change, mitigation, briefings, and records; and ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage concurrent priorities.
• Strong leadership, judgment, attention to detail, work ethic, research and root-cause analysis, written and oral communication, interpersonal effectiveness,
• The selection of an individual for this position may be conditioned upon his or her successful completion of a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
• Must have an active DOE Q or Top-Secret clearance.

Desired Qualifications:

• Technical knowledge of network and telecommunications design
• Understanding of classified and unclassified infrastructure dependencies; SCIF project experience
• Federal facilities or real property experience
• Project Management Professional or comparable certification desired.

Salary range $100,000 - $150,000

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Race/Sex/Religion/Disability/Veteran Status/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age.