Sr. Project Manager- FAA (Dallas, TX)

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced On-Site Project Manager to provide day-to-day project leadership and coordination for a major aviation and mission-critical facilities program.

Based at the project site, the On-Site Project Manager will serve as a primary interface among the FAA, Parsons’ program leadership, designers, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, technical specialists, and field personnel. The position will coordinate project execution, monitor performance, resolve issues, maintain project controls, and support successful delivery from mobilization and design through construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty support.

The On-Site Project Manager will perform in an owner-agent PM/CM advisory capacity. The role will provide leadership, coordination, oversight, reporting, and recommendations to the FAA and Parsons project leadership while preserving the Progressive Design-Builder’s responsibility for design-of-record, construction means and methods, site safety management, contractor quality control, and contract performance.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Lead day-to-day on-site coordination of PM/CM advisory activities and serve as a primary point of contact for project execution matters.
- Coordinate the activities of Parsons personnel, FAA representatives, designers, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, utilities, technical specialists, and other project stakeholders.
- Develop, maintain, and monitor project execution plans, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, deliverables, action items, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Track project performance against approved scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, security, operational, and contractual requirements.
- Chair and facilitate recurring project meetings, coordination meetings, progress meetings, issue-resolution sessions, design reviews, construction meetings, commissioning meetings, and turnover-readiness meetings.
- Document decisions, action items, responsibilities, risks, and follow-up requirements, and drive timely closure of assigned actions.
- Review project reports, schedules, cost information, design submissions, construction documentation, technical deliverables, submittals, RFIs, change information, and readiness materials.
- Monitor field and project progress against approved schedules, phasing plans, work sequences, milestones, and look-ahead activities. Identify variances and coordinate recovery or mitigation actions.
- Coordinate project interfaces involving design, construction, utilities, telecommunications, security, facility systems, equipment delivery, commissioning, operational readiness, and cutover.
- Support owner-agent review of contractor performance, payment applications, change proposals, schedule updates, recovery plans, and other project submissions.
- Maintain project controls and reporting, including risk registers, issue logs, decision logs, action-item logs, change and trend logs, schedule information, cost information, and project status reports.
- Identify potential scope gaps, design conflicts, cost impacts, schedule delays, quality issues, procurement risks, stakeholder concerns, and other conditions that may affect project delivery.
- Coordinate the development and tracking of corrective-action, risk-mitigation, recovery, and issue-resolution plans.
- Support quality assurance, field observation, inspection coordination, deficiency tracking, nonconformance resolution, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities.
- Coordinate project requirements associated with beneficial occupancy, substantial completion, phased turnover, final completion, warranty work, and closeout documentation.
- Support FAA executive briefings, milestone reviews, stakeholder workshops, decision meetings, and readiness assessments.
- Maintain complete and accurate project records in the PMIS or other FAA-designated information-management environment.
- Prepare project status reports, executive briefings, decision-support memoranda, readiness reports, meeting materials, and other project documentation.
- Provide timely advice to the FAA and Parsons project leadership regarding project performance, emerging issues, stakeholder decisions, and recommended actions.
- Perform other responsibilities associated with this position as appropriate.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, project management, architecture, or a related technical field.
- Typically 10 or more years of experience in project management, program management, construction management, engineering, infrastructure delivery, aviation, transportation, or government contract support.
- Experience managing complex projects or project elements involving scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, staffing, documentation, stakeholder coordination, and contractor interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience leading project teams and coordinating multidisciplinary personnel in a field or site-based environment.
- Experience developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, risk registers, action-item logs, status reports, and project deliverables.
- Strong understanding of project controls, construction administration, design coordination, quality processes, safety requirements, and customer reporting.
- Experience monitoring contractor, subcontractor, vendor, and consultant performance and coordinating resolution of project issues.
- Experience supporting change management, schedule recovery, payment review, claims avoidance, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
- Strong leadership, communication, organization, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead meetings, prepare executive briefings, document decisions, and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively with government customers, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, field personnel, designers, and senior project leadership.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project-management, scheduling, document-control, PMIS, or project-controls applications.
- Ability to meet applicable client security, background-screening, site-access, badging, and information-protection requirements.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

- Experience supporting an owner’s representative, program management, construction management, design-build, or progressive design-build organization.
- Experience supporting FAA, Department of Defense, USACE, aviation, transportation, or other federal infrastructure programs.
- Experience working at operational, occupied, secure, or continuity-sensitive facilities.
- Familiarity with FAA facilities, National Airspace System operations, communications systems, automation systems, telecommunications infrastructure, facility systems, or other mission-critical environments.
- Experience coordinating MEP, security, telecommunications, utility, equipment-installation, commissioning, or operational-readiness activities.
- Experience supporting phased construction, long-lead procurement, shutdowns, outages, testing, integrated systems testing, cutover, and rollback planning.
- Experience working with geographically dispersed project teams, multiple facilities, or complex stakeholder organizations.
- Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, PMIS platforms, cost-control systems, or similar tools.
- PMP, PgMP, CMAA, CCM, or similar certification.
- Ability to travel or work extended hours during critical construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, or cutover activities.

Key Attributes

- Strong site leadership and project-coordination presence.
- Organized, proactive, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective at translating project requirements into coordinated actions.
- Able to identify issues early, evaluate impacts, and drive corrective actions to completion.
- Comfortable working with senior government representatives, contractors, designers, vendors, and technical personnel.
- Clear, concise, and professional in written and verbal communication.
- Collaborative, accountable, and committed to a one-team project environment.
- Comfortable working under compressed schedules and in high-visibility, mission-critical settings.
- Committed to safety, quality, security, operational continuity, and successful project delivery.
- Security Clearance Requirement: Ability to obtain FAA Suitability. Must be a U.S. Person.

- Location: On-Site, Dallas, TX

Security Clearance Requirement:
None

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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