We have multiple openings for Project Managers  to lead project-management activities and support the planning and successful execution of high-impact technical projects addressing critical national security challenges. You will serve as a key project-management resource for milestone-driven research and development efforts in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment. Working closely with Associate Program Leaders, Principal Investigators, technical staff, and other project stakeholders, you will help organize project teams and coordinate schedules, budgets, milestones, risks, resources, agreements, reporting, and technical communications to enable successful project execution on aggressive timelines. You will contribute to a growing portfolio of national security research and development initiatives in areas such as cyber-physical systems assurance, national security infrastructure, supply chain security, and disaster resilience. This position provides an opportunity to apply project-management, technical, and operational expertise to first-of-a-kind national security work while helping technical teams effectively organize, plan, coordinate, and execute complex activities.  This position is in the National Security Engineering Division within the Engineering Directorate. Depending on your assignment, this position may offer a hybrid work arrangement, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. These positions will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level. In this role, you will Lead day-to-day project-management activities for milestone-driven technical projects across cyber and infrastructure domains, including schedules, deliverables, dependencies, resources, budgets, risks, and project documentation. Advise and support Associate Program Leaders and Principal Investigators in project team organization, resource coordination, budget tracking, scheduling, milestone planning, risk mitigation, and progress toward technical and programmatic objectives. Gather, analyze, and synthesize scientific and technical information for project reports, proposals, milestone deliverables, sponsor communications, and decision briefings. Coordinate technical and operational communications among project teams, collaborators, management, sponsors, and other stakeholders to support timely and effective project execution.  Identify and recommend improvements to established project-management and operational principles, methods, and tools to improve project execution, workflow, documentation, team coordination, and organizational processes. Coordinate documentation, schedules, deliverables, funding information, and other activities associated with contracts, subcontract-related efforts, collaboration agreements, and external project partnerships. Implement, maintain, and contribute to the improvement of project-management frameworks, tools, processes, and practices used to monitor budgets, schedules, resources, risks, milestones, and project performance. Organize and facilitate project and team meetings, including schedules, logistics, agendas, presentation materials, decisions, action items, and follow-up activities. Coordinate with staff and project-management personnel at other national laboratories and partner organizations to support communication, planning, team organization, resource coordination, milestones, and execution of multi-laboratory projects and consortia. Perform other duties as assigned. Additional job responsibilities, at the TSS.3 level Conduct complex technical and operational project-coordination activities under minimal direction, developing approaches, priorities, and solutions necessary to support successful completion of project milestones and deliverables. Perform independent technical and operational analyses, synthesize project information, and develop recommendations to inform strategic project decisions involving schedules, budgets, resources, risks, priorities, and execution approaches. Analyze and resolve complex project execution issues requiring in-depth analysis, ingenuity, and creative application of established project-management, technical, and operational methods. Coordinate and prioritize multiple parallel activities involving competing requirements, changing priorities, or less well-defined assignments, and provide project leadership for defined activities by coordinating contributors and guiding execution toward project objectives.