Critical Infrastructure Project Analyst

MITRE; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 83,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE in Colorado Springs seeks a Project Manager to coordinate technical projects across multidisciplinary teams supporting critical infrastructure protection and cyber-physical systems. You will develop schedules, milestones, and status reports to ensure successful execution and sponsor alignment.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 2 years of coordinating complex projects, with the ability to obtain government security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business, engineering, CS, cybersecurity, information systems, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience coordinating technical projects, programs, or related activities.
• Familiarity with systems engineering, cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, OT, CI or R&D.
• Ability to manage project schedules, deliverables, action items, and documentation.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (MS Office, MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint).
• Ability to obtain and maintain required government security clearances; U.S. citizen for clearance.
• On-site work is required (minimum 3 days/week).
• Master’s degree preferred.
• PM certifications (PMP, CAPM, Agile, Scrum) preferred.
• Experience with federal government/public sector programs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical projects across multidisciplinary teams for critical infrastructure protection.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and status reports.
• Support project planning activities, including scope definition, resource coordination, risk identification, and dependency management.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among technical staff, project leaders, sponsors, and external stakeholders.
• Track project progress and resolve schedule, resource, and execution challenges to meet objectives.
• Organize technical meetings, working groups, workshops, and sponsor engagements with documented outcomes.
• Prepare project documentation, technical reports, presentations, briefings, and artifacts.
• Monitor budgets, funding allocations, and contract-related activities as applicable.
• Collect, analyze, and communicate project performance metrics for decision-making.
• Coordinate configuration management, document control, and information-sharing across teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve project management processes, tools, and workflows.
• Ensure activities comply with policies, quality standards, and sponsor requirements.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Organizational skills

Stakeholder coordination

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Project

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

MITRE in Colorado Springs seeks a Project Manager to coordinate technical projects across multidisciplinary teams supporting critical infrastructure protection and cyber-physical systems. You will develop schedules, milestones, and status reports to ensure successful execution and sponsor alignment.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 2 years of coordinating complex projects, with the ability to obtain government security clearance.