Job Description

The Project Manager is responsible for coordinating and overseeing designated tasks, deliverables, and personnel within their assigned scope of work. A primary objective of this role is to effectively translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions and implementation plans, ensuring all deliverables meet required standards. The Project Manager will actively manage resources, monitor schedules, mitigate risks, and serve as a vital liaison between technical teams and executive leadership to ensure successful, on-time project execution.

Responsibilities

• Requirements & Proposals: Define project requirements and prepare detailed task proposals, which includes comprehensive budget and schedule development.
• Project Execution: Utilize project management tools to oversee daily progress, manage schedules, and ensure that all deliverables consistently meet rigorous quality standards and client requirements.
• Status Reporting & Communication: Facilitate clear and concise delivery statuses on multiple, concurrent activities. Effectively quantify specific, detailed information for recommendations in both written and verbal formats.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate potential technical and other project-related risks.
• Process Development: Develop, implement, and refine policies, procedures, and standardized work instructions to optimize project delivery.
• Quality Assurance: Continuously assess project deliverables to guarantee they meet all functional, technical, and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Clearance & Background: Must be able to successfully pass a Public Trust Tier 2 background investigation, as well as FBI criminal checks.
• Education: A Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field is required.

Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of professional project management experience is required (if the candidate does not possess an active PMP certification).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience utilizing industry-standard project management tools.

Skills & Knowledge:

• A solid working understanding of Information Technology (IT) and Cybersecurity capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple concurrent activities effectively.
• Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly preferred (and can substitute for the 10 years of experience requirement).

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and standard office equipment
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer workThe employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
• Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding)

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Exposure to general office conditions while conducting office duties
• Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic)
• Ability to work in a confined area
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period

Working at Edgewater Federal Solutions:Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies since 2018.

Edgewater Federal Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It has been and continues to be our policy to provide equal employment to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status and/or other status protected by applicable law.