Project Manager - Active Clearance Required

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Engineering

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Hours: Full-time
Where: Livermore, CA
Posted: Sep 23

We have multiple openings for Project Managers to lead project-management activities and support the planning and successful execution of high-impact technical projects addressing critical national security challenges. You will serve as a key project-management resource for milestone-driven research and development efforts in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment. Working closely with Associate Program Leaders, Principal Investigators, technical staff, and other project stakeholders, you will help organize project teams and coordinate schedules, budgets, milestones, risks, resources, agreements, reporting, and technical communications to enable successful project execution on aggressive timelines.

You will contribute to a growing portfolio of national security research and development initiatives in areas such as cyber-physical systems assurance, national security infrastruct…

What you'd do

Lead day-to-day project-management activities for milestone-driven technical projects across cyber and infrastructure domains, including schedules, deliverables, dependencies, resources, budgets, risks, and project documentation.
Advise and support Associate Program Leaders and Principal Investigators in project team organization, resource coordination, budget tracking, scheduling, milestone planning, risk mitigation, and progress toward technical and programmatic objectives.
Gather, analyze, and synthesize scientific and technical information for project reports, proposals, milestone deliverables, sponsor communications, and decision briefings.
Coordinate technical and operational communications among project teams, collaborators, management, sponsors, and other stakeholders to support timely and effective project execution.
Identify and recommend improvements to established project-management and operational principles, methods, and tools to improve project execution, workflow, documentation, team coordination, and organizational processes.
Coordinate documentation, schedules, deliverables, funding information, and other activities associated with contracts, subcontract-related efforts, collaboration agreements, and external project partnerships.
Implement, maintain, and contribute to the improvement of project-management frameworks, tools, processes, and practices used to monitor budgets, schedules, resources, risks, milestones, and project performance.
Organize and facilitate project and team meetings, including schedules, logistics, agendas, presentation materials, decisions, action items, and follow-up activities.
Coordinate with staff and project-management personnel at other national laboratories and partner organizations to support communication, planning, team organization, resource coordination, milestones, and execution of multi-laboratory projects and consortia.
Perform other duties as assigned.Additional job responsibilities, at the TSS.3 level

What they want

This position requires an active DOE Q-level clearance or active Top Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at the time of hire.
Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, project management, business, engineering, or a related technical field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
Comprehensive knowledge of project-management concepts, practices, and tools, with broad experience applying project-management principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to technical or operational projects.
Comprehensive experience independently coordinating established project schedules, budgets, milestones, deliverables, resources, risks, agreements, documentation, and other project execution activities.
Experience supporting project team organization and resource coordination, including aligning schedules, assignments, dependencies, and project needs across multidisciplinary teams.
Experience organizing and prioritizing parallel project activities with well-defined priorities and applying independent judgment to develop approaches and recommend process improvements within established practices and procedures.
Experience gathering and synthesizing technical or operational information and developing project reports, presentations, proposals, milestone documentation, or decision-support materials.
Proficient verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a multidisciplinary team environment and present and explain technical or operational information.
Effective interpersonal and organizational skills necessary to coordinate activities across organizational boundaries and work with technical staff, project leadership, management, external collaborators, and other stakeholders.
Ability to travel as required to support project activities and collaborations.Additional qualifications, at theTSS.3 level

About Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Engineering

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow.