Project Manager (52594)

GAP SOLUTIONS INC; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

GAP Solutions Inc. is seeking an experienced Facilities Project Manager to lead space planning, workplace modernization, and related infrastructure projects at NIH's Rockville Campus in Rockville, MD.

The role focuses on coordinating interdisciplinary teams, schedules, budgets, and documentation to ensure compliant, timely execution. The position requires a Bachelor's degree with 11–13 years of relevant experience and the ability to obtain government credentials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with relevant education and experience.
• 11–13 years of related experience managing facility projects.
• Experience with laboratory, clinical, data center, or office environments.
• Strong scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to obtain government credentials and facility access.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage facility-related projects including infrastructure, renovations, relocations, occupancy, and closeout.
• Develop schedules, milestones, budgets, estimates, and documentation.
• Coordinate with scientists, facilities, IT, vendors, and other stakeholders; facilitate meetings.
• Monitor status, risks, scope, schedule, cost, quality; propose mitigations.
• Provide technical support for mission-critical environments while maintaining continuity.
• Prepare status reports and executive briefings.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA (preferred)

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Job description

Job Details: Level: Experienced, Job Location: National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Rockville Campus - Rockville, MD 20852, Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: Bachelors Degree, Salary Range: $130,000.00 - $142,500.00 Salary/year, Travel Percentage: None, Job Shift: Day, Job Category: Facilities, Position Objective Lead space planning, workplace, FF&E, security, infrastructure, and facility-modification projects across office and laboratory environments.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and manage facility-related projects, including infrastructure, renovations, relocations, occupancy, workplace modernization, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain schedules, milestones, dependencies, action logs, budgets, estimates, and project documentation.
• Coordinate scientific, administrative, facilities, architecture/engineering, IT, vendor, and other stakeholders; facilitate and document meetings.
• Monitor project status, resources, risks, issues, scope, schedule, cost, quality, and performance; recommend mitigation and corrective action.
• Provide technical support for laboratory, clinical, animal research, data center, office, and other mission-critical environments while maintaining operational continuity.
• Prepare status reports, risk registers, change records, technical analyses, executive briefings, presentations, data-call responses, and closeout reports.
• Support CAD drawings, space planning studies, relocation plans, customer engagement, and decision-support products as assigned.
• Ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, professional, current, and compliant with Government requirements and applicable federal facility practices.
• Develop Programs of Requirements, test fits, CAD drawings, Scopes of Work, estimates, RFP packages, furniture packages, and vendor evaluations.
• Coordinate FF&E, data infrastructure, security, AV, relocation, and building-system upgrades; identify reuse and cost-avoidance opportunities.

Qualifications: Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an accepted combination of directly relevant education and experience consistent with the contractual labor category.
• Minimum 11-13 years of related experience supporting a variety of projects, appropriate to the assigned PM level.
• Experience with facility infrastructure and building systems and with laboratory, clinical, animal research, data center, administrative, or comparable environments.
• Demonstrated project scheduling, risk management, stakeholder coordination, customer-service, written communication, and executive-presentation skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required Government credentials and facility access.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA and bachelor-level education in interior design.
• 12 or more years of workplace, FF&E, space planning, interior design, or facility-project experience.
• OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety credential, LEED experience, or PMP coursework.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and facility/space-management systems.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required by this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

GAP Solutions provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Applicants who need an accommodation may contact [e-mail] and reference the requisition number for the position of interest.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.