Project Manager

Location: Atlanta, GA United States

Category: Program Management

Citizenship Required: United States Citizenship

Clearance Type: Secret

Remote: Yes- May consider hybrid remote for this position

Shift: Any (United States of America)

Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

Our staff at Elite Paradigm have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions that will affect people’s lives now and in the future. In order to collaborate to create the future and have fun while doing it, we seek out individuals with audacious new ideas, courage, and a pioneering attitude. Our culture is one that values intellectual vigor, cognitive diversity, and bringing your complete self to work. We also have an unquenchable desire to do things that other people might consider to be unachievable.

Push the limits of what is possible to put your abilities to the test. Your knowledge and skills will make it possible, from global defense to mission readiness, sustainment, and modernization. Programs offered by Elite Paradigm are based equally on collaboration and inquiry. Together, we can connect and defend millions of individuals throughout the world for our customers.

Position Overview:

A Project Manager is needed to join Elite Paradigm’s expanding team in Atlanta, Georgia. You will join the Engineering & Solutions (E&S) team at Elite Paradigm for projects involving the design and development of communication, navigation, radar, avionics, power, and/or electrical systems architecture, components, circuits, and products, E&S offers sustainment support. Our team members complete engineering, reverse engineering and logistics solution efforts to solve complex obsolescence problems and ensure supportability.

This project management position will assist the program manager with large-scale projects, including technical planning, requirements development and tracking, system integration, risk management, logistics support, parts obsolescence, cybersecurity, reliability / maintainability, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for complete systems. The entire overall system product is subjected to analysis, including the concept, specifications, design, fabrication, testing, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. To ensure on-time delivery of the project’s deliverables, this person will coordinate team efforts.

Responsibilities of this position will include but not be limited to the following:

  • Serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
  • Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
  • Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
  • Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
  • Supports proposal development / capture planning and strategic planning
  • Develops customer relationships and customer intimacy
  • Develops and manages adherence to Integrated Master Schedules (IMS)
  • Tracks and prepares project deliverables, coordinating individual contributor input to ensure on time delivery
  • Captures and distributes meeting records

Basic Qualifications:

  • Must have either a bachelor’s degree with 3 years of project management experience or a master’s degree with 1 year of experience supporting Aerospace, Department of Defense, Government contracts, or project management experience
  • Must have or be able to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance
  • Must be able to work on-site in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Ability to communicate with multiple levels of the organization (written and oral) and have excellent presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active DoD Secret Security Clearance (or higher)
  • Experience working within an Integrated Product Team (IPT)
  • Experience with Risk Management, Return to Green (RTG) plans and scheduling cross functional activities
  • Experience with earned value management
  • Experience with US Government customers and aerospace industry
  • Experience and detailed knowledge of Technical Orders (e.g., System, Commodity, inspection, repair, and overhaul, Illustrated Parts Breakdown)
  • Highly experienced using Microsoft (MS) Office products to include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Project
  • Ability, once acclimated, to perform tasks autonomously with minimal oversight/supervision as needed
  • Experience using the following Web applications/Software programs: SharePoint; Teamcenter, etc.
  • Experience with Air Force and/or Government project procedures and reporting deliverable requirements

Interested candidates email your CV/resume to opportunities@eliteparadigmllc.com