Air Traffic Systems Installation Lead

Parsons; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an Installation Manager to lead dispersed field installation teams supporting FAA air traffic control systems nationwide. You will supervise field engineers, electricians, technicians, installers, and subcontractors across regions, ensuring safe, on-time delivery of installation activities and related field work.

You will drive planning, staffing, and execution, review drawings, and develop risk and execution plans.

Responsibilities

• Manage field teams performing hands-on installation, deployment, site preparation, integration support, and related field activities in active FAA operational environments.
• Provide leadership and day-to-day coordination for assigned field engineers, electricians, electronics technicians, electronics installers, subcontractors, and other field personnel.
• Manage assigned blocks of field work across regions, work areas, projects, or program initiatives to ensure installation activities are properly planned, staffed, executed, documented, and closed out.
• Assign field staff to installation and site preparation activities based on project needs, schedule requirements, personnel qualifications, training, and availability.
• Ensure field personnel are trained, prepared, equipped, and properly briefed before performing assigned work.
• Monitor field execution progress against approved schedules, scopes of work, technical requirements, safety requirements, quality expectations, and customer commitments.
• Review engineering drawings, installation packages, scopes of work, site documentation, and other technical materials to confirm installation clarity and execution readiness.
• Develop or support project-specific execution plans, implementation plans, staffing plans, site readiness plans, and installation approaches.
• Interface with internal program teams, project managers, engineers, FAA stakeholders, subcontractors, vendors, and field personnel to determine the most effective approach for field project delivery.
• Prepare project-specific Risk Management Plans and related field planning materials to identify and mitigate safety, quality, schedule, technical, logistical, and operational risks.
• Anticipate installation challenges and work with clients, engineers, subcontractors, field staff, project managers, and program leadership to identify and implement corrective actions.
• Promote technical excellence and field quality through the application of Parsons quality assurance processes, installation standards, documentation requirements, and lessons learned.
• Coordinate with FAA customers and other government authorities as required to support site access, security requirements, operational coordination, and field work execution.
• Attend and lead site readiness meetings, installation kickoff meetings, field coordination meetings, weekly field staff meetings, and project status reviews.
• Make periodic trips to field sites during installation work to verify project scope, safety, quality, staffing, schedule, and execution requirements are being met.
• Develop regional, project-specific, and national-level status reports covering field execution progress, risks, staffing, schedule performance, issues, and upcoming work.
• Support preparation and submission of installation deliverables, field reports, completion documentation, and customer correspondence.
• Assist ProgramManagement and ProjectManagement with budget tracking, schedule monitoring, scope management, change order support, and analysis of field execution impacts.
• Monitor field staff timekeeping.

Job description

Parsons is seeking an Installation Manager to lead dispersed field installation teams supporting FAA air traffic control systems nationwide. You will supervise field engineers, electricians, technicians, installers, and subcontractors across regions, ensuring safe, on-time delivery of installation activities and related field work.

You will drive planning, staffing, and execution, review drawings, and develop risk and execution plans.