Project Manager
Summary
FIRST RF is seeking a highly organized and technically driven Project Manager to lead complex programs for both defense and commercial applications. In this role, you will oversee projects from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, engineering milestones, security standards, and cost/schedule objectives. You will serve as the primary interface between internal stakeholders, suppliers, and customers driving program execution, mitigating risks, and ensuring critical solutions are delivered with excellence. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, a result-oriented mindset, and a solid technical background.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a project leader and drive consistent, organized processes
- Facilitate communication among production, engineering, quality, management, suppliers and customers
- Collaborate with all teams to ensure that project goals and deliverables meet FIRST RF quality standards
- Assess, monitor, document, and communicate on project scope and status, risks and key learnings to project stakeholders
- Construct and control project plans and budgets that help teams drive key decision points
- Ensure all team members understand their roles and are held accountable for meeting commitments
- Identify, track, manage, and resolve project issues
- Capture and document project-related business, functional and creative information during the project lifecycle
- Drive change management processes, manage stakeholder expectations, communicate impact, and execute changes if applicable
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of the projects and related contractual, technical, and quality documentation