Senior Project Manager - Logistics

GAP SOLUTIONS INC; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 170,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

GAP Solutions Inc. supports the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the Rockville Campus, seeking a seasoned logistics leader to manage relocation, occupancy, and facility projects. You will coordinate workforce, financial reporting, and executive documentation while ensuring compliance with government credentials.

Lead teams, oversee budgets, risk, and scheduling for complex lab and research asset moves, and maintain continuity during mission-critical operations at NIH facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 17–19 years of related experience, including at least five years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Experience managing complex logistics, relocation, facility, or operational projects.
• Experience supporting laboratory, healthcare, scientific, research, or federal environments.
• Knowledge of project management, risk management, budgeting, scheduling, inventory, and resource planning.
• Strong communication and executive-reporting skills and ability to maintain Government credentials and access.

Responsibilities

• Conduct relocation planning meetings and develop detailed relocation, occupancy, transition, sequencing, and implementation plans.
• Assess mission dependencies and operational impacts and plan movement of scientific equipment, research materials, temperature-controlled assets, furniture, and specialized laboratory resources.
• Develop labor, equipment, material, resource, budget, and schedule estimates; coordinate staging, storage, inventory, asset tracking, vendors, and access.
• Lead logistics and relocation staff; assign work, monitor status, communicate with customers, and coordinate competing priorities.
• Track relocation requests through Government systems and monitor performance, risk, schedule, cost, and issue resolution.
• Develop logistics SOPs, quality controls, project records, reports, presentations, financial reports, relocation plans, and closeout reports.
• Support workplace optimization, space utilization, renovation occupancy, and mission continuity.

Skills

Logistics leadership

Project management

Budgeting & scheduling

Risk management

Executive reporting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

APICS CPIM or equivalent credential

Job description

Job DetailsLevel: ExperiencedJob Location: National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Rockville Campus - Rockville, MD 20852Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: Bachelors DegreeSalary Range: $170,000.00 - $182,500.00 Salary/yearTravel Percentage: NoneJob Shift: DayJob Category: FacilitiesPosition Objective Lead NIAID logistics, relocation, occupancy, inventory, and operational projects and provide workforce coordination, customer interface, financial reporting, and executive documentation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct relocation planning meetings and develop detailed relocation, occupancy, transition, sequencing, and implementation plans.
• Assess mission dependencies and operational impacts and plan movement of scientific equipment, research materials, temperature-controlled assets, furniture, and specialized laboratory resources.
• Develop labor, equipment, material, resource, budget, and schedule estimates; coordinate staging, storage, inventory, asset tracking, vendors, and access.
• Lead logistics and relocation staff; assign work, monitor status, communicate with customers, and coordinate competing priorities.
• Track relocation requests through Government systems and monitor performance, risk, schedule, cost, and issue resolution.
• Develop logistics SOPs, quality controls, project records, reports, presentations, financial reports, relocation plans, and closeout reports.
• Support workplace optimization, space utilization, renovation occupancy, and mission continuity.

QualificationsBasic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum 17-19 years of related experience, including at least five years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex logistics, relocation, facility, or operational projects.
• Experience supporting laboratory, healthcare, scientific, research, or federal environments.
• Knowledge of project management, risk management, budgeting, scheduling, inventory, and resource planning.
• Strong communication and executive-reporting skills and ability to maintain Government credentials and access.

Preferred Qualifications

• 29 years of logistics, distribution, inventory, operations, or project-management experience.
• Direct NIAID logistics and relocation leadership experience.
• APICS Certified in Planning and Inventory Management or comparable credential.

*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.