Program & Project Leadership

• Leads assigned strategic programs and major projects from award through closeout, including startup, planning, staffing, execution, reporting, and customer satisfaction.
• Directly manages select high-profile, high-risk, or strategically important projects where executive visibility, customer sensitivity, technical complexity, or commercial risk warrant senior-level involvement.
• Oversees Project Managers and supporting personnel assigned to the program and provides clear direction, accountability, and operational support.
• Establishes program delivery structure, communication protocols, reporting cadence, and performance expectations across internal teams and external partners.
• Translates customer requirements, contract requirements, proposal assumptions, and internal business objectives into executable project direction.
• Balances direct project ownership with broader leadership of multiple related projects, task orders, or work packages under a larger program.
• Identifies program-level and project-level risks, constraints, and resource needs early and drives mitigation plans.
• Escalates material issues to executive leadership with recommended solutions and clear definition of operational and business impact.
• Supports the buildout of a scalable project management organization capable of supporting growth in current and future strategic programs.

Financial & Reporting Oversight

• Develops and maintains program-level and project-level budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, and schedule assumptions.
• Reviews job cost, labor utilization, subcontractor performance, materials status, invoice status, and margin performance on a routine basis using various project management software.
• Ensures project managers and project support personnel maintain accurate cost coding, timekeeping discipline, status updates, and documentation.
• Drives billing readiness, percent complete visibility, change management, and cash flow awareness across assigned programs.
• Reviews client invoicing support, subcontractor and consultant invoices, and internal financial reporting for completeness and accuracy.
• Supports development and maintenance of statements of values, cost-loaded schedules, resource-loaded plans, and forecast updates as applicable.
• Prepares concise executive-level reporting on schedule, cost, risks, issues, customer concerns, and forecasted outcomes.
• Partners with finance, accounting, and leadership to improve program visibility and cost discipline.

Contracts & Procurement Coordination

• Coordinates with contracts, legal, procurement, and leadership to support review and implementation of prime contracts, subcontracts, task orders, NDAs, consulting agreements, and purchase orders.
• Ensures contract requirements are understood and operationalized across project teams.
• Supports onboarding and management of subcontractors, consultants, design partners, suppliers, and specialty vendors.
• Manages subcontractor and consultant scope alignment, deliverable expectations, schedule commitments, invoice review, and issue resolution.
• Identifies scope gaps, commercial risks, and execution risks tied to subcontracting and supplier strategy.
• Supports negotiation and execution of change orders, modifications, and other commercial actions in coordination with leadership and contracts personnel.
• Maintains strong documentation and decision tracking to support claims avoidance, entitlement, and customer communication.

Customer Interface, Capture Support & Program Growth

• Serves as a lead operational interface with customers, partners, consultants, and key suppliers during execution of assigned programs.
• Supports capture, proposal, ROM, pricing, and post-award transition efforts for strategic opportunities when requested.
• Helps ensure continuity from pursuit assumptions to actual execution planning.
• Participates in customer meetings, internal reviews, and executive discussions related to delivery strategy, issue resolution, and growth opportunities.
• Identifies lessons learned, recurring customer pain points, and opportunities to improve ITL’s competitiveness and execution model.
• Supports business development and leadership with practical, execution-based input on future pursuits.
• Travels as required to support customer meetings, project kickoff activities, site visits, field reviews, subcontractor coordination, and program oversight.

Team Leadership & Development

• Leads, mentors, and develops Project Managers, Project Engineers, Coordinators, and other assigned personnel.
• Oversees the work of Project Managers across assigned programs and ensures consistency in planning, execution, communication, documentation, and customer management.
• Establishes performance expectations and raises the standard for project planning, financial discipline, schedule ownership, change management, invoicing support, and closeout execution.
• Provides coaching and operational guidance to PMs while stepping in directly on key projects when business needs require.
• Helps identify staffing gaps and supports recruiting, onboarding, and development of program delivery personnel.
• Builds bench strength and organizational structure needed to support future program growth and increased workload volume.
• Promotes accountability, responsiveness, and cross-functional collaboration across operations, field teams, contracts, procurement, finance, and leadership.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Promotes and enforces compliance with company safety requirements, customer safety requirements, and applicable quality and operational procedures.
• Works closely with field leadership and safety personnel to ensure safe execution and proper documentation on assigned work.
• Supports compliance with federal, customer, and internal documentation requirements, including project records, site documentation, contractual reporting, and audit readiness.
• Ensures assigned teams understand and follow procedural requirements tied to project execution, invoicing, timekeeping, subcontractor management, and closeout.

Education

• A Bachelor of Science degree in business and construction management is required OR, 2 years of related experience can be exchanged for 1 year of required education (4 years of education or 8 years of direct experience).

Experience

• Ten (10) years of industry experience (in addition to the education requirements).
• Experience managing multi-site, multi-state, or programmatic work preferred.
• Demonstrated responsibility for schedule, cost, forecasting, customer communication, and operational execution on complex projects or programs.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including project management, contracts, procurement, field operations, subcontractors, consultants, and customers.

License, Cert or Registration

• Project Manager Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
• Current driver’s license required
• Proof of U.S. citizenship
• Current OSHA 30 / EM385 Certification (preferred)

Special knowledge, skills, & abilities

• Strong understanding of program and project execution across planning, budgeting, scheduling, subcontracting, procurement, invoicing, reporting, and closeout.
• Ability to manage both strategic priorities and day-to-day execution details.
• Strong understanding of federal and commercial project environments, including documentation, compliance, change management, and customer reporting expectations.
• Ability to coordinate design support, field execution, subcontractors, consultants, equipment, and material flow across multiple simultaneous efforts.
• Working knowledge of project controls, forecasting, cost management, and schedule management.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, customers, project teams, field personnel, and outside partners.
• Strong organizational skills and documentation discipline.
• Ability to identify process gaps and implement practical improvements.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and accountability skills.
• Ability to read and interpret plans, specifications, contract documents, scopes of work, schedules, and technical submittals.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, and project management/reporting tools such as Procore, MS Project, Primavera P6, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with accounting and project-cost systems such as Costpoint or similar systems preferred.
• Ability to work the hours necessary to meet business, customer, and project demands, including periodic extended hours and travel.
• Ability to pass required background checks, drug screening, and customer site access requirements.