Facilities Project Lead: Capital & Renovation Delivery

General Atomics; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) in San Diego seeks a Facilities Project Planner to lead planning and coordination of facilities, capital, renovation, and improvement projects from initiation through completion.

You will develop project plans, budgets, and schedules, coordinate with internal stakeholders and corporate partners, monitor progress and risks, and provide regular status updates to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery in compliance with policies, quality standards, and

Qualifications

• Six years of progressively complex experience in project administration and operations in an engineering or scientific environment, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in project planning and scheduling, plus monitoring and reporting.
• Experience planning, coordinating, and executing construction, renovation, capital, facilities, or other facility improvement projects is preferred.
• Experience coordinating projects involving multiple stakeholders and corporate service organizations (Facilities, Telecom, EH&S, Security) is preferred.
• Experience preparing project status reports, identifying risks and issues, tracking mitigation activities, and communicating project performance to management is required.
• Experience in organizational and operational problem resolution is required.
• Familiarity with occupancy reporting, space planning, event coordination, AV upgrades, signage, and other small facility improvements is preferred.
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; ability to explain complex operational issues.
• Ability to facilitate meetings, document decisions and action items, and coordinate follow-up across multiple organizations.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and deadlines; customer focus; willingness to work extended hours and travel; potential DoD security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage operational plans, budgets, schedules, and deliverables for construction, renovation, capital, and facility improvement projects.
• Translate customer and organizational requirements into actionable project plans and coordinate projects from initiation through completion.
• Serve as a liaison between program and project teams, internal stakeholders, and corporate partners, including Facilities, Telecom, EH&S, and Security.
• Facilitate meetings and document and track decisions, action items, issues, risks, dependencies, and commitments through resolution.
• Monitor project performance and provide regular status reports covering progress, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and recommended corrective actions.
• Identify operational issues and coordinate solutions with program managers, project teams, stakeholders, and administrative service departments.
• Coordinate operating procedures and integrated processes that support organizational and business objectives.
• Conduct reviews of project costs, service structures, productivity, delivery methods, and performance to achieve planned targets.
• Coordinate small expense projects, including AV upgrades, signage, space plan changes, and similar facility improvements.
• Support occupancy reporting, space planning, and limited event-planning activities.
• Participate in recruitment, retention, and development of personnel as needed to support business objectives.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Ensure all laws, regulations and other obligations are observed; work safely.
• Other duties as assigned or required.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Leadership

Communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, or related field

Job description

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) in San Diego seeks a Facilities Project Planner to lead planning and coordination of facilities, capital, renovation, and improvement projects from initiation through completion.

You will develop project plans, budgets, and schedules, coordinate with internal stakeholders and corporate partners, monitor progress and risks, and provide regular status updates to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery in compliance with policies, quality standards, and