F-35 Senior IT Project Manager | Active Secret clearance

General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company delivering consulting, technology, and mission services. They are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to design, lead, and govern scheduling and WBS practices across a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring effective delivery outcomes and adherence to standards.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with PMO/leadership to define and implement standards, methods, and best practices for IT project scheduling and WBS development across the portfolio
• Continuously improve scheduling practices, templates, and guidelines based on lessons learned and industry standards
• Own the design and integrity of the master IT project schedule in Microsoft Project Server
• Analyze schedule data to identify cross-project impacts, critical paths, resource/contention issues, and recommend mitigation strategies
• Lead the design and refinement of WBSs and WBS dictionaries for IT projects based on business and technical requirements
• Facilitate workshops with project managers, product owners, business stakeholders, and technical leads to decompose scope into well-defined work packages
• Ensure WBSs are traceable to requirements, aligned with deliverables, and suitable for robust scheduling and reporting
• Serve as the primary coach and advisor to IT project managers on WBS development, schedule structuring, and use of Project Server
• Provide practical guidance on defining activities, sequencing tasks, setting dependencies, estimating durations, and managing baselines
• Promote adoption of consistent scheduling practices, templates, and naming conventions to improve quality and comparability across projects
• Lead selected complex IT projects (e.g., new product/service launches, platform upgrades, software implementations) end-to-end
• Develop comprehensive project plans, manage risks and issues, oversee change control, and ensure delivery against scope, schedule, and quality objectives
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (business, development, infrastructure, security, operations, vendors) to drive execution
• Use advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, pivot tables, advanced data analysis) to interpret schedule and portfolio data and provide insights to leadership
• Proactively identify schedule risks and bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions and scenario options

Requirements:

• Secret clearance must currently possess
• Secret clearance must be able to obtain
• 10+ years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required
• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
• Information Technology Project Management
• Microsoft Office Project Server
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• 10+ years of IT project management experience with advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project Server, and project management best practices
• Experience in analyzing program/project status and providing documentation to support project/program
• Experience with ITSM based services
• DoD 8140.03 Work Role (802) IT Project Manager - Basic
• Industry Certifications: PMP and ITIL Foundations (ITIL to be achieved within 3 months of hiring)
• BS or BA degree. Allowable Substitution: An additional 6 years of experience is required without a BS/BA degree. An additional 4 years of experience is required with an AA/AS degree