Project Manager, Communications Programs

ACG Systems; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) and disability insurance

Job summary

ACG Systems is seeking a Project Manager to own a portfolio of complex installation and systems integration projects in Washington, DC. You will manage scope, schedule, budget, and customer relationships across technically diverse efforts.

You will coordinate engineers and subcontractors, drive government submittals, monitor risks, and ensure timely invoicing and project closeout. Travel may be required, and compensation includes a performance-based bonus eligibility.

Qualifications

• Four or more years managing technical installation, construction or systems integration projects.
• Experience running several projects at once and keeping every one of them moving.
• Experience directing subcontractors and holding vendors to commitments.
• Comfort with the commercial side of a project: change orders, milestone billing, progress payments, closeout documentation.
• Clear written communication. Much of this job is a well-written status report or a well-argued escalation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project and Microsoft 365.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Own scope, schedule, budget and the customer relationship on your projects from kickoff through closeout.
• Build and maintain project plans, integrated master schedules, site survey reports and risk registers, and manage the government submittal and comment-resolution cycle on each.
• Direct subcontractors and coordinate shared engineering and technician resources across projects, including the scheduling that comes with a shared bench.
• Coordinate engineering support from equipment manufacturers and keep their commitments on track.
• Manage ACG's role as a subcontractor to prime and general contractors, including submittals, site access, schedule dependencies and pay applications on their terms.
• Run change orders and contract modifications so that no work starts before it is documented, priced and approved.
• Own the commercial side of your projects: milestone billing, progress payments, retainage, government invoicing systems, and coordination of government source inspection.
• Administer assigned preventive maintenance and service agreement programs, including scheduling, technician assignment and option-year renewals.
• Coordinate with our sister companies where a customer needs something outside ACG's own scope, such as in-building coverage or independent consulting support.
• Produce status reporting on the cadence each contract requires, and surface risk early enough that customers are never surprised.

Skills

Project management

MS Project

Schedule management

Vendor management

Communication

Travel willingness

Tools

Microsoft 365

Oracle NetSuite

Job description

ACG Systems is a rapidly growing systems integrator. For more than thirty years we have designed, installed and supported the radio, dispatch and recording systems people depend on when the stakes are high: controllers talking to aircraft, federal agents working the border, wildland fire dispatchers, airline ramp operations, and emergency communications centers.

In any given month our project teams are modernizing control tower communications, installing dispatch consoles in federal operations centers, refreshing microwave backhaul across remote sites, standing up voice recorders in hospitals and medical centers, integrating radio systems into vehicles and mobile command units, delivering equipment overseas under foreign military sales, and running recurring maintenance programs at airports and airline stations nationwide.

We are headquartered in Annapolis and have recently expanded through acquisition into in-building public safety wireless and public safety communications consulting. This role exists to support that growth across the entire platform.

The role

You will own a portfolio of concurrent projects budgeted between $50,000 and $2 million or more, running anywhere from a few weeks to three years. Projects will vary and will not follow perfectly repeatable patterns.

A typical portfolio includes a control tower modernization delivered alongside the electrical contractor building the tower, a microwave link refresh spread across remote federal sites, dispatch console upgrades at operations centers, a voice recorder installation at a medical center, an equipment build and inspection for an overseas foreign military sale, and recurring maintenance programs that need scheduling and renewal rather than construction management.

ACG delivers as both a prime contract holder and a subcontractor, and you will work both ways, often in the same week.

Every project has a technical lead assigned to it. Our project managers are expected to work alongside the technical leads and understand where a project stands, and what it needs to keep moving.

The work

This role sits at the center of an integrated team. Every project brings together equipment manufacturers, subcontractors, general contractors, our own engineers and technicians, and the customer. You keep that group aligned and moving so the work lands on schedule and on budget.

In a typical week you might be coordinating engineering support from a manufacturer, working with a general contractor to secure site access, turning around a customer's comments on a site survey report, resequencing an installation around a construction milestone, and confirming that completed work is invoiced on time.

• Own scope, schedule, budget and the customer relationship on your projects from kickoff through closeout.
• Build and maintain project plans, integrated master schedules, site survey reports and risk registers, and manage the government submittal and comment-resolution cycle on each.
• Direct subcontractors and coordinate shared engineering and technician resources across projects, including the scheduling that comes with a shared bench.
• Coordinate engineering support from equipment manufacturers and keep their commitments on track.
• Manage ACG's role as a subcontractor to prime and general contractors, including submittals, site access, schedule dependencies and pay applications on their terms.
• Run change orders and contract modifications so that no work starts before it is documented, priced and approved.
• Own the commercial side of your projects: milestone billing, progress payments, retainage, government invoicing systems, and coordination of government source inspection.
• Administer assigned preventive maintenance and service agreement programs, including scheduling, technician assignment and option-year renewals.
• Coordinate with our sister companies where a customer needs something outside ACG's own scope, such as in-building coverage or independent consulting support.
• Produce status reporting on the cadence each contract requires, and surface risk early enough that customers are never surprised.

Who you will be working for

Our customers include federal civilian and law enforcement agencies, every military service, land management and public land agencies, airport authorities and their contractors, major airlines, hospitals, utilities, and state and local public safety agencies. Some buy through open competition, some through GSA and other contract vehicles, and some through the general contractor building their facility.

What we are looking for

• Four or more years managing technical installation, construction or systems integration projects.
• Experience running several projects at once and keeping every one of them moving.
• Experience directing subcontractors and holding vendors to commitments.
• Comfort with the commercial side of a project: change orders, milestone billing, progress payments, closeout documentation.
• Clear written communication. Much of this job is a well-written status report or a well-argued escalation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project and Microsoft 365.
• Willingness to travel.

Helpful but not required

• Federal contracting experience, including contract modifications and working with contracting officers and their representatives.
• Experience on airport, air traffic control or airfield projects.
• Familiarity with land mobile radio, P25, dispatch consoles, microwave backhaul, voice recording or in-building wireless systems.
• Background as a subcontractor to general contractors on institutional or government construction.
• Military communications experience.
• PMP certification, or a willingness to earn it in your first year.
• Experience with an ERP system such as Oracle NetSuite.

What to expect

There is no playbook for most of what we do, and no two projects look alike. If you are used to an environment where the process was already built, this will be an adjustment. If you are the person who figures out what needs to happen and then makes it happen, you will do well here, and you will have real influence over how this platform scales.

Compensation and benefits

Base salary is to be commensurate with experience, with performance-based bonus eligibility. Medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) and disability insurance.

ACG Systems is an equal opportunity employer.