Project Manager/Program Scheduler, Digital Tower Programs

Frequentis; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Accounts

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

Frequentis USA Inc. is seeking a Project Manager/Program Scheduler for Digital Tower Programs in Maryland, Columbia.

You will own the program-level schedule, coordinate with FAA and other customers, and lead schedule development, reviews, and reporting across multiple site deployments. The role requires strong communication skills, risk management, and experience with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project, plus a degree or equivalent in a related field.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of project management experience on complex technical or deployment projects.
• 3–5+ years of hands-on integrated program scheduling experience using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Ability to gather schedule inputs from functional leads and translate into an integrated plan.
• Experience presenting project status to customers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and control the program-level integrated master schedule and supporting schedules for Digital Tower site projects.
• Lead schedule update process with functional leads, validate activities, progress, dependencies, resources, dates, and forecasts.
• Maintain baselines, calendars, milestones, and reporting conventions for visibility across the program and sites.
• Perform critical-path, float, variance, and schedule-trend analysis and communicate impacts and recovery options.
• Interface with FAA and other customers; lead status reviews and coordinate deliverables.
• Prepare concise schedule and project-status inputs for reviews and client meetings.
• Support development of project management plans and risk/issue registers.
• Develop dashboards and management reporting as needed.

Skills

Project management

Schedule coordination

Stakeholder communication

Risk and issue management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in project management/engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Project Manager/Program Scheduler, Digital Tower Programs

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

• Develop, maintain, and control the program-level integrated master schedule and supporting schedules for individual Digital Tower site projects in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Lead the recurring schedule update process by working with functional leads to obtain and validate activities, progress, dependencies, resource inputs, actual dates, and forecasts.
• Maintain schedule baselines, calendars, activity logic, milestones, coding structures, and reporting conventions that provide clear visibility across the program and individual sites.
• Perform critical-path, float, variance, milestone, and schedule-trend analysis; identify emerging conflicts and communicate impacts, priorities, and recovery options.
• Integrate internal work, subcontractor commitments, customer activities, contractual deliverables, and external dependencies into coordinated, logic-driven schedules.
• Assume full project-management ownership of assigned site deployments, including planning, execution oversight, resource coordination, risk and issue management, action tracking, deliverable control, and customer communication.
• Interface directly with the FAA and other customers; lead or support status reviews, present project and schedule performance, manage actions, and coordinate required deliverables.
• Coordinate CDRL planning, development, review, and submission for assigned projects, ensuring inputs, approvals, and delivery dates remain aligned with contractual requirements.
• Prepare concise schedule and project-status inputs for internal reviews, customer meetings, monthly reporting, Program Management Reviews, and executive briefings.
• Support development and maintenance of project management plans, work breakdown structures, risk and issue registers, action and decision logs, milestone plans, and other program-control artifacts.
• Perform scenario and what-if analysis for new orders, overlapping deployments, changing priorities, resource constraints, and alternative execution strategies.
• Capture actual performance and lessons learned to improve estimating assumptions, schedule templates, and repeatable delivery practices.
• Develop dashboards and other concise management reporting using available reporting tools as needed.

Key Qualifications

• Five or more years of project management experience supporting complex technical, systems-integration, infrastructure, or deployment projects.
• Three to five or more years of hands-on integrated program scheduling experience using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining logic-driven, multi-project schedules with controlled baselines, calendars, dependencies, resources, milestones, and critical-path analysis.
• Experience independently managing projects through planning and execution, including risks, issues, actions, resources, contractual deliverables, stakeholder communication, and performance reporting.
• Ability to gather schedule inputs from functional leads, challenge incomplete or inconsistent information, and translate cross-functional commitments into an integrated and maintainable plan.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present project and schedule status directly to customers and senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, construction management, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience on complex technical, systems-integration, infrastructure, or deployment projects.
• 3-5+ years of hands-on integrated program scheduling experience in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Can personally explain and demonstrate schedule logic, baselines, calendars, dependencies, resources, critical path, float, variance analysis, and recurring status updates.
• Has independently managed projects beyond schedule administration, including risks, issues, actions, resources, deliverables, customer communication, and performance reporting.

Our Values

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,900 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits

We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts
• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
• Employee Life Insurance & AD&D
• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1
• PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave
• Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.
• Bonus Plan

"Frequentis stands for safe, open & family-friendly corporate culture, we hire for personality & train skills. People & their values matter to us. That's why I'm not only interested in your skills, but also in your personal passion and commitment."

At Frequentis we don't just create innovations,

we create a kind of wonder

to make the world a safer place.

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