Aviation Weather Systems Program Manager

Peraton; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is recruiting an experienced Technical Project Manager – Aviation Weather Systems in Anchorage, AK, to support the FAA BNATCS contract. You will coordinate weather system activities, lead field surveys, and manage technical reports and implementation packages with FAA stakeholders and installation partners.

The role requires coordinating multidisciplinary teams, maintaining schedules, and ensuring successful execution of aviation weather modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required and ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Minimum years of experience tied to degree: 8+ with BS/BA, 6+ with MS/MA, 3+ with PhD or 12 years in lieu of a degree.
• Experience managing complex technical projects across engineering/infrastructure modernization/aviation systems in mission-critical environments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across multiple organizations.
• Experience managing technical schedules, risks, action items, deliverables, and customer communications.
• Experience developing engineering documentation, technical reports, requirements packages, or acquisition documentation.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities in dynamic environments.
• Experience working directly with Government customers and senior leadership.

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 customer 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 trackers, risk registers, and technical deliverable schedules.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure timely, accurate delivery of technical products.
• Serve as primary point of coordination for field survey planning, logistics, travel, site access, and stakeholder communications.
• Support preparation, quality review, and delivery of technical reports, engineering recommendations, requirements docs, and implementation packages.
• Coordinate technical discussions with FAA representatives, engineering organizations, subcontractors, and installation partners.
• Track technical issues, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions through resolution.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering tasks and deliverables.
• Support procurement planning by identifying long-lead materials and dependencies.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Quality, Safety, Cybersecurity, Contracts, Logistics, Procurement, and Program Controls.
• Assist with development of implementation strategies, migration planning, and technical transition activities.
• Maintain traceability between customer requirements, engineering recommendations, site surveys, decisions, and deliverables.
• Support project reviews, customer briefings, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Recommend process improvements to enhance execution, documentation quality, and schedule performance.

Skills

Public Trust clearance

U.S. Citizenship

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Documentation

Communication

Multitasking

Government customers

Education

BS/BA

MS/MA

PhD

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Peraton is recruiting an experienced Technical Project Manager – Aviation Weather Systems in Anchorage, AK, to support the FAA BNATCS contract. You will coordinate weather system activities, lead field surveys, and manage technical reports and implementation packages with FAA stakeholders and installation partners.

The role requires coordinating multidisciplinary teams, maintaining schedules, and ensuring successful execution of aviation weather modernization initiatives.