Senior Project Manager, EPMO

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Amentum

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10,000+ employees

⚡ Energy

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-01

Energy • Defense • Cybersecurity

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, serving the United States and its allies to tackle complex challenges in science, security, and sustainability. With over 53,000 employees spread across 80 countries, Amentum specializes in fields such as energy, defense, and space, offering tailored solutions including data analytics, cyber services, and sustainability initiatives.

📋 Description

• Project governance and compliance: Implement and enforce project governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with project management methodologies, standards, and best practices. • Partner with junior team members to help train, coach, and provide feedback to improve knowledge, performance, and maturity. • Drive continuous improvement in the management of projects based on lessons learned and industry best practices. • Provide input to senior EPMO members on ways to improve governance and compliance processes and efficiencies. • Project Planning and Execution: Provide strategic leadership and direction in the planning and execution of large, complex projects. • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to define scope, objectives, deliverables, cost, timelines, business case, and success criteria. • Develop, tailor, and implement project management strategies based on the needs of the project to ensure alignment with organizational goals. • Develop comprehensive project management plans, resource allocation strategies, and risk management approaches. • Drive projects from Initiating to Benefits Realization, ensuring adherence to project timelines, budget, and quality standards. • Stakeholder management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior executives, department heads, and external partners. • Collaborate closely, understand stakeholder expectations, and ensure effective communication and alignment throughout the project lifecycle. • Anticipate and manage stakeholder needs, concerns, and risks to foster strong partnerships and drive project success. • Team Management: Lead and inspire cross-functional project teams, providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship to drive high performance. • Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and empowering work environment, encouraging innovation, professional growth, and knowledge sharing. • Optimize resource allocation, promote teamwork, and manage conflicts proactively to maximize team performance and project outcomes. • Risk and Issue Management: Identify, document, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues, applying advanced risk management strategies. • Develop contingency plans and escalation protocols. Regularly monitor project risks, implement mitigation measures, and communicate risk status to stakeholders. • Drive proactive problem-solving and decision-making to address complex project challenges. • Adoption Change Management: Assess and address the impact of projects on the organization, including changes in processes, systems, and culture. • Develop and implement adoption change management strategies to maximize project adoption and minimize resistance. • Collaborate with change management teams and stakeholders to ensure smooth project transitions and sustainable outcomes. Foster a culture of change readiness, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Quality and Performance Management: Ensure adherence to project management processes and procedures. Develop and maintain accurate and up-to-date project schedules and project plans. • Develop and manage project site to be used as the central repository for project documentation, risk/issue management, and collaboration. Ensures appropriate reviews are held with the team and key stakeholders and is accountable for getting signoffs/approvals as necessary. • Conducts quality assurance activities, ensuring adherence to project management processes. Identify opportunities for process improvement, lessons learned, and share best practices across projects and teams. • Communications Management: Provide and facilitate excellent/robust communication; run effective meetings with clear objectives. Provide presentations to medium-to-large size audiences and demonstrate advanced and effective business writing skills. Expedite initiatives amidst ever-changing business requirements and organization priorities. Maintains relationships with functional organizations; is cognizant of project impacts on any aspect of other initiatives and vice versa. Seeks input from supervisor and mentors and appropriately and accurately applies comments/feedback. Develops regular status reports and communicates key status information to include project progress, key milestones, budget, risks/issues, etc. Prepares executive-level project presentations and facilitates project reviews. Performs other duties as required.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 8 years managing Information Technology/Services and/or Acquisition Integration projects • Bachelor's degree or Technical Certification in a related field (e.g., Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, etc.) • In-depth knowledge and application of PMI's project management methodology. • Relevant project management certifications (e.g., PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma) are highly desirable; PMP certification preferred; other project management certifications a plus • Extensive experience as a project manager, successfully leading and delivering large-scale, complex projects. • Experience in managing government contracts or projects. • Proven track record of strategic project leadership and ability to drive results in a dynamic environment. • Must be a current U.S. citizen; may require security clearances on multiple contracts to perform certain duties as needed. • Industry-specific experience related to the organization's projects are preferred (Cyber, Infrastructure, Application Development, etc.). • Must have ability to work extended hours (other than normal business hours) to support contractual requirements to meet customer needs on occasion. • Must be able to work under deadlines

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance • Paid time off and holidays • Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching) • Educational reimbursement • Parental leave • Employee stock purchase plan • Tax-saving options • Disability and life insurance • Pet insurance