Remote Construction Program Manager

Siemens; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

Siemens AG in Arlington, VA seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the Advanced Manufacturing Construction Program through the full lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams including contractors, vendors, and facilities experts to deliver manufacturing capabilities on schedule and within budget.

You will drive governance, manage scope with USACE/NAVFAC-style processes, and ensure quality and safety compliance while coordinating with stakeholders across multiple time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience (8+ years).
• 8–10 years in a project manager/leadership role leading cross-functional teams.
• Prior US federal government customer-facing experience focusing on USACE/NAVFAC construction processes.
• Knowledge of Change Management processes and scheduling with CPM tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Advanced Manufacturing Construction Program through the full project life cycle.
• Lead program governance and coordinate with project managers to execute governance.
• Develop and maintain a Master schedule by integrating subprojects and managing interdependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional deployment including software, equipment, and facilities experts.
• Manage vendor/contractor engagement and ensure safety, compliance, and quality.
• Conduct program reviews, risk and issues logs, and lessons learned sessions.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Federal government experience

Change management

Scheduling/CPM

Industrial/plant environment

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technical field

Tools

MS Projects

Primavera

Program management software

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manage the Advanced Manufacturing Construction Program through the Project life cycle, leveraging industry standard project management framework
• Lead Program wide governance approach. Coordinate with scope specific Project Managers to execute project governance.
• Manage customer requirements and program scope to achieve program objectives, effectively coordinating project expectations with customers and stakeholders in a timely and concise fashion.
• Manage and combine individual subproject schedules into an integrated Master schedule, coordinating interdependencies between sub-projects to ensure on time delivery.
• Manage cross functional, multi-team configuration and deployment activities including software, industrial equipment manufacturers and Facilities experts. These team members will be coordinated to complete the design, procurement, installation, configuration, validation, and acceptance of the facility improvements and planned Manufacturing Capabilities.
• Work with third-party contractors to ensure overall program execution and success including site safety planning, material ordering coordination, and solution/system validation.
• Provide program management activities to control scope, cost, schedule, and quality across all sub elements.
• Define and execute required processes in alignment with stakeholders including appropriate communication to all levels.
• Perform program quality management, ensuring that the solution meets contractual requirements and is to the appropriate quality and management compliance for industry or customer protocols, regulations, and standards.
• Perform program reviews and retrospectives regularly and present the results and lessons learned to the program and organization.
• Ensure the projects in the program are meeting the approved budget and agreed margin and are reviewed on a regular basis.
• Conduct Stakeholder meetings to manage and guide stakeholders through scope clarification, design review and installation activities
• Set the standard and maintain project artifacts such as status, risk, issues, opportunities (RIO), schedule or IMS, decision log, program management plan, safety plan, FMEA, CAP, or other artifacts as needed to support project rigor as required by customer or industry standards.
• Confidence creating and presenting content to all levels of management, both internal and external.
• Coordinate difficult scope, cost, resource conversations with customers.
• Lead successful project closeout and successful user-acceptance and adoption of deployed project capability; or participated in customer witness tests or similar events, industrial equipment validation and start up procedures. Coordinate integration of all Systems
• Manage contract acceptance and handover of projects to the customer. Develop proactive closeout procedures to avoid extended on site durations.
• In conjunction with Engagement Management, identify, and create new opportunities and renewals for current projects/programs.
• Mentor and support the development of team members.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any accredited Engineering, Technology, or equivalent years of experience (8+) in technical fields of work.
• Eight to ten years in a project manager/leadership role, guiding a cross-functional team of project managers and consultants during significant facility or industrial equipment implementation.
• Eight to ten years of experience working in a US Federal Government customer-facing environment with a focus on USACE/NAVFAC Construction processes. Including US Federal Government projects, contracts, policies, procedures and quality and safety programs.
• Knowledge of Change Management processes.
• Product Scheduling experience with Critical path method schedules using MS Projects, Primavera or similar software.
• Demonstrated experience operating within an industrial setting such as a plant, shop, building infrastructure, shipboard, or other industrial setting.
• Proactive self-starter who can build a team to meet project delivery requirements, performing independently in high‑pressure situations with little supervision.
• Leadership skills and proven track record of leading multi-disciplinary teams, including services
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with third party contractors.
• PMP Certification, with working knowledge of project management processes and tools is highly preferred.
• Experience building effective project teams from separate organizations, establishing program governance, organizational effectiveness and program data interchange.
• Use of Program/Project management software a plus.
• Experience implementing industrial equipment such as CNC machine tools, conveyers, PLCs, plant automation, manufacturing centers, SCADA, cabling, electrical, or other industrial infrastructure.
• Experience connecting cloud infrastructure with on‑premise IT/OT networks
• Proven experience working with distributed, remote teams across multiple disciplines and time zones.
• Ability to promote complex solutions and drive acceptance with confidence.
• Working knowledge of using AI tools to support project management execution.

Travel

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50%

Security Clearance

• Candidate must be US citizen and have the ability to obtain and maintain a US federal agency security clearance.

You’ll Benefit From

Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html

The pay range for this position is $133,500.00 - $200,300.00 annually with a target incentive of 10% of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.

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