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In this pivotal leadership role, you will oversee the full lifecycle of planning, integrated scheduling, budgeting, and risk management for multiple concurrent projects within highly secure environments.\nWhy Join Amentum?\nGlobal Impact: Lead mission-critical defense and government programs across both domestic and overseas locations.\n Complex Challenges: Drive operational excellence by managing multi-stakeholder, secure-facility (SCIF) engineering and construction workflows.\nMeaningful Work: Contribute to mission-driven engineering and construction projects supporting defense and government customers.\nVaried Portfolio: Apply your skills across both domestic and overseas locations in dynamic environments.\nGrowth Opportunity: Expand your technical depth and project exposure while working alongside experienced program leaders.\nKey Responsibilities\nProgram Controls & Portfolio Oversight\nIntegrated Management: Lead project scheduling, budget development, cost control, and change management across various engineering and construction projects.\nPerformance Tracking: Monitor portfolio progress to ensure all projects align with strict cost and schedule baselines.\nSchedule, Baseline & Change Management\nBaseline Development: Build and maintain integrated project baselines encompassing scope, schedule, and budget.\nSchedule Analysis: Perform regular schedule reviews, analyze critical path impacts, and recommend corrective actions when needed.\nChange Management: Lead change control processes by assessing schedule and cost impacts, preparing thorough documentation, coordinating approvals, and ensuring that all changes and variations are reviewed and implemented in compliance with project standards.\nBudgeting, Cost Controls & Forecasting\nFinancial Governance: Design and execute robust cost controls, financial tracking methods, and operational budget policies.\nProjections: Oversee committed costs, actuals, and forecasts to generate highly accurate financial projections.\nResource Optimization: Leverage financial analysis tools to mitigate risks, identify cost-saving opportunities, and optimize resource allocation.\nLeadership & Stakeholder Communication\nTeam Leadership: Hire, train, coach, and manage workloads for the project controls team.\nCollaborate with project managers, engineers, and construction teams to ensure aligned communication and seamless delivery of project controls support.\n Prepare clear and accurate status reports, schedule updates, and variance explanations for internal stakeholders.\nCoordinate with Business Development teams to support proposals by developing early schedules and cost input as needed.\nExecutive Reporting: Deliver high-quality dashboards, variance metrics, and risk-assessment summaries to executive stakeholders.\nBD Partnership: Partner with Business Development teams to establish project controls requirements, early schedules, and cost estimates for new pursuits.\nPosition Requirements\nActive Secret security clearance. TS/SCI preferred .\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, finance, or a related business field.\n10+ years of professional project controls experience within secure or classified environments.\n5+ years of direct experience managing and mentoring project controls teams.\nProven track record supporting Project Management Office (PMO) operations for complex, multi-stakeholder programs.\nDeep expertise in Primavera (P6) and MS Project.\nStrong capability in cost-sheet reconciliation, financial forecasting, and quantitative risk planning.\nIn-depth understanding of construction workflows, estimating lifecycles, and federal government contracting.\nExtensive experience with DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) standards for project security.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPMP, Certified Cost Professional (CCP), or AACE certifications.\nSuccess overseeing projects in remote, austere, or OCONUS locations.\nOther Responsibilities:\nSafety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is\nresponsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.\nQuality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.\nProcedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.\nCompensation Details:\n$125,000.00 - $135,000.00The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.\nBenefits Overview:\nOur health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance\n\nPaid time off and holidays\n\nRetirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)\n\nEducational reimbursement\n\nParental leave\n\nEmployee stock purchase plan\n\nTax-saving options\n\nDisability and life insurance\n\nPet insurance\n\nNote: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.\nOriginal Posting:\n10/02/2026 - Until FilledAmentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.\nAmentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. 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