Alaska Weather Technical PM for FAA NAS Modernization

Peraton; Alaska; On-site; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced Alaska Weather Technical Project Manager to support modernization under the FAA BNATCS contract. Based in Anchorage, AK, you will coordinate engineering execution, field activities, and customer engagement to advance aviation weather modernization.

You will collaborate with FAA stakeholders, engineering teams, subcontractors, and internal teams to manage schedules, deliverables, and technical documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex technical projects involving engineering modernization and mission-critical environments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across multiple organizations.
• Experience developing engineering documentation, technical reports, implementation plans, requirements packages, or acquisition documentation.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Weather Workstream Lead to plan, coordinate, and execute activities supporting the Weather Needs Package.
• Manage day-to-day technical project execution, ensuring alignment with objectives, schedules, and priorities.
• Coordinate desktop evaluations, engineering analyses, field site surveys, and technical assessments for AWOS, VWOS, WCAM, and related initiatives.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, action item trackers, risk registers, and technical deliverable schedules.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure timely, accurate technical products.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination for field survey planning, logistics, and stakeholder communications.
• Support preparation, quality review, and delivery of technical reports and implementation packages.
• Coordinate technical discussions with FAA, engineering organizations, subcontractors, and installation partners.
• Track technical issues, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions through resolution.
• Translate customer requirements and field observations into actionable engineering tasks.
• Support procurement planning by identifying long-lead materials and dependencies.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Safety, Cybersecurity, Contracts, Logistics, Procurement, and Program Controls.
• Assist in development of implementation strategies, migration planning, and technical transitions.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, recommendations, site findings, and deliverables.
• Support project reviews, customer briefings, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Recommend process improvements to enhance execution and schedule performance.

Skills

Project coordination

Engineering documentation

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Schedule & risk management

Government customer experience

Education

BS/BA in a technical field

MS/MA in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced Alaska Weather Technical Project Manager to support modernization under the FAA BNATCS contract. Based in Anchorage, AK, you will coordinate engineering execution, field activities, and customer engagement to advance aviation weather modernization.

You will collaborate with FAA stakeholders, engineering teams, subcontractors, and internal teams to manage schedules, deliverables, and technical documentation throughout the project lifecycle.