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Program Manager - Rescue 21 Support in Alaska - Military Veterans

at Akima, LLC

Provides project management professional services for an IT support program that maintains 60+ remote tower/antenna facilities throughout Alaska, including preventive and corrective maintenance of IT and mechanical systems for US Coast Guard Rescue 21 and Vessel Traffic Systems.  Provides leadership and is responsible for project direction through successful performance of a variety of detailed, diverse elements of project management tasks. Directs task to completion, ensuring task orders are completed on time and within budget. Schedules and assigns duties to subordinates and ensures assignments are completed as directed. Interfaces with Government representatives and reports to the Program Manager on project progress/status and various issues or problems.

 

 


Responsibilities


  • Program/contract management

  • Technical guidance and oversight

  • Supervision of personnel

  • Project planning

  • Coordination of resources (including vendor and subcontractor management)

  • Project status reporting

  • Document preparation and submission

  • Performance measurement and reporting

  • Provides product review and quality assurance

  • Manages the planning, scope definition, design, execution, and delivery.

  • Tracks progress against milestones, budgetary guidelines, or other performance indicators, and prepares reports to senior management.

  • Responsible for managing activities of external consultants and/or vendors.

  • Comprehensive knowledge of the field's concepts and principles.

  • Leads and directs the work of other employees and has full authority for personnel decisions.

  • Administers departmental policies and procedures, evaluates results and performance, and assists with the development of new or modified budgets, strategic plans, or policies.


Qualifications


  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, computer science, or related discipline from an accredited institution or have equivalent experience.

  • The Project Manager must have training and at least five years of project management or equivalent experience. Project Management Professional training and certification is desired.

Anchorage, AK

Akima, LLC

Akima supports a diverse portfolio of operating companies with one strategic goal: enabling superior outcomes for our customers’ missions.  Together with its operating companies, Akima represents an uncommonly broad array of specialized talents, technologies, domain expertise, and proven program success at some of the most visible and demanding implementations across all of government and industry.

 

Akima is an enterprise with 30 years of federal contracting experience and over 7,500 employees supporting more than 14,300 Iñupiat shareholders in the NANA region of Alaska.  Akima provides the backbone infrastructure to support more than 40 socio-economically disadvantaged small businesses (SDBs) with mature business processes and shared back-office support services normally only found in a Fortune 500 defense contractor.

 

We leverage this infrastructure and the shared experiences of our operating companies to bring world-class solutions to U.S. Department of Defense, intelligence community, and civilian organizations in 46 states and 12 countries.

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