Senior Project Manager

The Analytical Solutions Division (ASD) of Applied Research Associates (ARA), Inc., has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager working from our Huntsville, AL facility. The potential candidate will assist the Program Manager in directing the project life cycle by assisting in development of comprehensive project plans to include both long and short-range goals and milestones. The ideal candidate will identify, acquire, and utilize company resources to achieve project technical objectives. He/she will direct a DoD project team, monitoring and encouraging team members to complete milestones within specific budgets and schedules. This candidate will on occasion interface with external customers as well as top management for the purpose of communicating status of project throughout life cycle. Requires Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and ten to twelve years of related experience.

Essential Functions:

• Provide required support, to include program/project management and logistical services to a level of detail necessary to ensure that all government requirements are met.
• Proven Leadership Skills
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Work effectively under deadlines and manage multiple projects with evolving requirements
• Take initiative to advance program, projects and build approaches to meeting objectives with only minimal direction
• Record, monitor and report status of tasks and activities
• Develop project management plans, requirements documentation and reports.
• Assist in the preparation of acquisition documentation associated with Requests for Information and Requests for Proposal for Force Protection Systems and related technology.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Must be a US Citizen
• 10-12 years of direct DoD project management related experience
• Strong communications skills, both oral and written
• Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a SECRET clearance from the US Department of Defense

Preferred Skills:

• A PMI PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is preferred
• Proven track record with DoD acquisition, systems engineering and program management support across multiple programs and portfolios
• Expertise in DoD roles and missions, and organizational structure
• Innovative and fresh thinking with a 'can do' attitude
• Ability to manage and prioritize numerous concurrent assignments
• Organized individual, with prioritization and time management skills
• Contracts, Safety, or Environmental Compliance experience
• Military or commercial quality practices such as ISO-9000 or MIL-Q-9858
• Active / current SECRET Clearance from the US Department of Defense

COMPANY INFORMATION:

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 1200 professionals. 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 generates 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 are eligible for contributions which 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 visit our website at www.ara.com.

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Senior Project Manager position.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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)