Project Manager

mbsolutionsinc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

mbsolutionsinc is seeking a Project Manager for ATCS work with Nexus in support of NASA deep-space exploration programs. The role oversees scope, schedule, and budget, coordinating engineering teams and stakeholders across centers.

Responsibilities include developing project plans, tracking progress, and ensuring deliverables meet program requirements. Ideal candidates bring extensive experience managing engineering projects, strong communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, with advanced degrees preferred
• Experience managing and leading engineering projects
• Excellent oral and written communication across levels
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and cost estimating
• Ability to coordinate across many technical disciplines
• Ability to work independently and track tasks to completion
• Familiarity with mechanical and electrical system design and engineering drawings

Responsibilities

• Formulate the project based on customer direction and EA-023 guidelines
• Define project scope, milestones, schedule, and budget
• Communicate issues and negotiate with program customers and prime contractors
• Develop and maintain a project plan and schedule with resource allocation
• Track deliverables and control project risks and changes
• Mentor junior staff and coordinate cross-functional teams
• Prepare and approve cost, schedule, and technical risk changes
• Coordinate lessons-learned and ensure project documentation is up-to-date

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Budgeting

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree (advantage)

Tools

Office software

Job description

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager, ATCS to join the team with Nexus, a teammate company!

The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall project – communicating the scope, schedule, and budget of the project; planning, organizing, and controlling the project; and communicating to internal and external stakeholders. More specific duties include:

• Formulate the project, based on customer direction, as described in EA-023.

• Clearly define the project scope.

• Be able to clearly define and explain the threats, costs, and resources of the project and track them along with schedule.

• Communicating issues and negotiating process and product agreements with the program, prime contractors, the Engineering Directorate, and relevant Technical Authorities.

• Defining the key milestone, schedule, and budget constraints for the team.

• Providing the team with a vision of the project objectives.

• Working with leaders in Identifying the resource needs, assigning responsibilities, and ensuring team personnel understand their roles and responsibilities.

• Develop a project plan, document the plan, and obtain approvals from engineering management and appropriate supporting organizations. Break the project into discrete tasks.

• Develop and continuously maintain a schedule to define project work activities, track progress, allocate resources, and identify constraints.

• Tracking project deliverables.

• Assign tasks to the project team members according to the project plan and schedule.

• Create and managing the project documents to monitor project performance and data.

• Maintain and update the project scope of work, financial plan, goals, and deliverables throughout the project life-cycle in response to program decisions.

• Reviewing and approving cost, schedule, or technical risk changes within the project; prepare decision packages to request budget, scope, or schedule changes from the program customer.

• Manage the operational, financial, and technological aspects of projects based on timelines and work plans.

• Directing, supporting, and coordinating the project team.

• Manage the project documents to monitor project performance and data.

• Resolve, tracing, and escalating critical issues to minimize project risk factors.

• Communicating intensively with customers, stakeholders, and contractors.

• Report on project progress and communicating relevant information to customers, other stakeholders, and management.

• Approve the certification plan and perform the provisional acceptance and final acceptance of the deliverables.

• Coordinate the lessons-learned process.

• Mentor less experienced project staff.

• Review hazard analyses and risk assessments for test activities (as required).

• Perform other duties as required.

Requisition Qualifications:

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering and may be expected to have a related master's degree and normally possess 10-15 years of related experience

• Experience managing and leading engineering projects

• Experience with financial reporting, including budgeting, forecasting and cost estimating

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and will be expected to effectively interact with customers and management at all levels

• Ability to coordinate support from a wide range of technical disciplines

• Ability to work independently and autonomously and track tasks and issues to completion

• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures in the field, such as mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, material selection, environmental testing, and office software

Requisition Preferences:

• BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of fourteen (14) years of direct engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and twelve (12) years of direct engineering experience, or Ph.D. degrees and nine (9) years direct engineering experience

• Familiar with Johnson Space Center (JSC) organizations, processes, and procedures

• Prior experience