Senior Project Manager 1

The Integrated Products Division of Applied Research Associates, Inc. is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team! This is an exciting opportunity in which we are looking for a qualified candidate to lead a variety of highly technical projects in Unmanned Systems and Sensors for both commercial and Government customers. With this opportunity you will lead a team of highly qualified engineers, technicians, and support staff in a dynamic environment. This position provides you with the opportunity to be involved throughout the entire project lifecycle. In addition to managing the engineering and manufacturing processes, you will have an opportunity to interface with customers, deliver products, and grow our business.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for the performance of the project, including managing budgets and schedules, ensuring deliverables, meeting contract requirements and company policies, procedures, and guidelines. You will oversee the technical development, marketing, and resource allocation within a program client base. Project areas will represent multiple functional areas such as engineering, systems analysis, quality control and administration.

• Essential Functions:
  
  • Manage a product or project development team consisting of engineers and technicians. The Senior Project Manager is accountable in meeting contract requirements. The Senior Project Manager is also accountable for ensuring that design, verification, and validation is met for the technical objective.
  • Interface with our current customers.
  • Travel to existing and potential customer sites for Marketing, Design Review, and Demonstration meetings.
• Required Experience and Skills:


• Requires Bachelor's degree or Equivalent in Electrical, Mechanical, Software or Systems Engineering
• 7-9 years of related engineering experience
• Effective Communicator
• Proficient in the use of MS Office Tools; Word, Excel, Power Point and Project
• Must have familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, Baan or the like.


• Preferred:
  
  • ISO 9001 Quality Assurance
  • PMP Certification or certification within one year from hire.

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1,500 employee-owners and continues to grow. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees contributions not only add to the company's success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please apply at careers.ara.com.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)