Company Background: Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.
Job Duties Summary: The Junior Project Manager role includes responsibility for leading program / project teams to execute delivery and support using the latest products in our voice & data product line. This role applies formal program execution experience to direct all engineering development, production / delivery, and customer support phases of programs/projects. The Junior Project Manager ensures the teams follow development/program management best practices, program controls are met, and drives program budget adherence and overall project execution.
Major Functional Areas and Description of Duties
Understand and comprehend customer requirements / needs.
Develop program execution strategies and plans to meet delivery requirements.
Create and maintain project work plans, schedules, and revisions as appropriate to meet customer's changing needs and requirements
Lead, direct and be responsible for day-to-day aspects, on-time delivery, and risk management of programs
Hold team members and functions accountable for on-time execution of project deliverables escalating issues when necessary to provide core team members with needed support
Effectively communicate project information to superiors, resolving and/or escalating issues in a timely manner.
Tactfully communicate difficult/sensitive information internally and to the customer
Manage and actively control project budget and costs, track and report program expenses
Understand and manage the economic and contractual impact throughout the course of the project and control associated risks
Continually work to increase program profitability
Support proposal efforts including project scoping and Level of Effort assessments.
Experience
Program Management experience leading project teams Ability to independently grasp and solve tasks with high complexity
Hands-on experience developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and budgets (EVM experience is a plus)
Knowledge of MS Project and Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, Visio)
Qualifications
BS degree in Engineering desirable and minimum 1 year experience in program management
PMI certification preferred
Ability to work independently and effectively communicate progress/problems to customer and internal personnel
Ability to interact and communicate effectually in a variety of roles with a wide variety of technical and non-technical management and staff as well as customer management and staff.
Demonstrated leadership abilities.
Special Notations or Conditions of Employment
Must be a United States citizen.
Job-related background check will be required to work on specific projects.
Willing to periodically travel to headquarters in Vienna, Austria for equipment training and product updates.