Program Manager

About the role

Location: Huntsville, AL Required Clearance: TS/SCI Required Education: Bachelor's degree in information technology, business, engineering, program management, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Required Experience: Senior-level experience managing complex IT service delivery or Government support programs, including multidisciplinary technical teams, customer coordination, staffing, risk, quality, and contract performance. Position Description PingWind is seeking a Program Manager to lead contract management and administrative execution for PAE Fires OCIO Information Management Area Services.

The Program Manager will provide overall leadership, technical oversight, resource coordination, customer engagement, and performance management to ensure contract requirements are achieved on time and in accordance with Army/DoD standards and Government direction.

Pay and benefits

* Lead day-to-day contract management and administrative execution, ensuring the labor, materials, supplies, services, facilities, and equipment needed to perform assigned work are available and coordinated. * Provide technical oversight and management guidance across assigned tasks and ensure the program is staffed with trained, experienced, and technically proficient personnel. * Coordinate with the Contracting Officer, COR, Government offices, customers, team leads, and other stakeholders to manage priorities, resources, schedules, dependencies, and timely completion of contract requirements. * Plan and manage co-located customer support and other mission-driven staffing arrangements as directed by the Government. * Employ a management system aligned with the DoD philosophy of continuous process improvement and use performance information to identify risks, corrective actions, efficiencies, and service improvements. * Maintain working knowledge of customer mission areas, application and solution development, network properties, cybersecurity, data management, acquisition, logistics, and emerging hardware/software in accordance with Army/DoD policies and standards. * Lead technical interchange meetings, program reviews, briefings, and status communications; promptly elevate execution issues and provide actionable recommendations and proposed solutions. * Oversee staffing, recruitment, retention, employee readiness, training/certification compliance, key-personnel continuity, and delivery of required management reports and contract data products.

Required Qualifications * Demonstrated experience managing a complex IT services or mission-support program with multiple technical disciplines and geographically or functionally distributed stakeholders. * Knowledge of Government contract execution concepts, including PWS requirements, CDRLs, quality/performance surveillance, staffing, deliverables, and formal customer coordination. * Experience managing staffing levels, workforce readiness, technical oversight, schedules, risks, issues, and corrective actions in a mission-focused environment. * Working knowledge across infrastructure, networks, cybersecurity, application development, data management, and end-user support sufficient to coordinate technical leads and resolve cross-functional dependencies. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing Government leadership and coordinating with COR/Contracting Officer representatives and technical stakeholders. * Ability to operate effectively in an Army/DoD environment and remain current on applicable policies, standards, security requirements, and mission priorities. * TS/SCI.

Desired Qualifications * PMP or equivalent program/project management certification. * ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, or other service-management/continuous-improvement certification. * Experience managing Army or DoD enterprise IT support contracts in the Huntsville/Redstone Arsenal environment. * Experience with transition-in/transition-out planning, key-personnel management, staffing/retention reporting, and CDRL-based program reporting.

About PingWind PingWind is focused on delivering outstanding services to the federal government. We have extensive experience in the fields of cybersecurity, development, IT infrastructure, supply chain management and other professional services such as system design and continuous improvement. PingWind is an SBA certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with offices in Northern Virginia and Huntsville AL.

Our benefits include: * Eleven Federal Holidays * Paid Time Off accrued each pay period * Parental Leave * Three medical plan choices with generous employer contribution * Dental and Vision Insurance * Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability * Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance * 401k with competitive matching and vesting schedule * Continuing education assistance * Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life Insurance * Medical, Dependent Care and Commuter Flexible Spending Accounts * Employee Assistance Program * Wellness benefits include Calm Health app and WellHub gym subsidy (formerly GymPass) * 529 College Savings Plan * Legal Insurance * Pet Insurance Salary Range $125K-$174K The pay range for this job is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.

Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) job responsibilities, education, certifications, experience, as well as internal equity mapping and alignment with market data, or other applicable laws.