PROJECT MANAGER

About LSI

LSI is an employee-owned company and employs dynamic teams of professionals – people with the finest technical expertise, a level of passionate creativity, and a truly visionary outlook who deliver innovative training solutions that exceed our customer’s expectations. Everyone at LSI has a personal stake in our success.

LSI has over 400 training and training support experts, engineers, and craftsmen on staff who develop state-of-the-art high-fidelity training devices, complex computer-based, highly interactive distributed learning products, and comprehensive, dynamic technical publications. LSI employee-owners collaborate to deliver training products and services for a myriad of programs and customers, using leading edge technology and proven processes.

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General Summary

Manages and supervises production team personnel performing the analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, presentation, and revision of new and/or modified training curricula, simulation software, and technical publications.

Essential Job Functions

• Schedule daily workload for assigned personnel, and supervise employees assigned to his or her division or project. Conduct regular status meetings with production team members. Consistently recognize and acknowledge the contributions of team members.
• Identify schedule issues regarding potential budget and schedule conflicts and provide inputs to the Program Manager. Make recommendations to improve schedule, budget and manpower, to resolve unforeseen challenges.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) when required to establish a project development structure.
• Translate Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) into an MS Project Plan and provide a structured format to gather work activities. Identify and explore task interdependencies with the Program Manager and key stakeholders.
• Ensure all deliverables developed within the division are routed through the complete QA review process.
• Ensure materials produced are in accordance with standards specified by the contract/delivery order.
• When designated, attend meeting and planning conferences in the absence of the Department Director or Program Manager. May be required to conduct briefings and have direct interface with primary Company customers. Deliver organized and informed presentations.
• Responsible for maintaining timesheets of assigned employees using the DELTEK timekeeping system.
• Perform periodic audits of all timesheets for employees under his or her purview, verify times, discover mistakes, and approve timesheets at the conclusion of each pay period. Review and approve expense reports filed by employees under his/her purview. Use Impromtu Reports to verify man-hour projections.
• Assist the Department Director and/or Program Manager in monitoring budgeted resources for contract delivery orders assigned to the division and to subcontractors. Analyze monthly costs (invoices, PSRs, DO Summary) to track and plan costs.
• Screen resumes and hold screening interviews for potential new employees in the division.
• Provide indoctrination, training, and guidance for new employees in the division.
• Provide initial personnel performance evaluations to the Department Director for assigned personnel.
• Complete and conduct 90-day and annual performance appraisals under approval authority of the Director, HR and senior management. Make recommendations for merit increases and bonuses. Recognize strong performers and document accordingly. Assists Department Director in disciplining poor performers, counsel and document appropriately.
• Ensure all employees under his or her purview complete annual HR training, Security training, Safety training, OPSEC training, and other training as required by the LSI Board of Directors.
• Safely handles government furnished equipment and materials.
• Works a standard weekly schedule of 40 hours with overtime as required.
• Performs other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to travel on short notice as the job requires. Normally travel will be less than 25% and will not be longer that one week in duration. Strong curriculum development/ISD background is desirable.
• Knowledge of interviewing and hiring rules and regulations and the skill to review resumes, interview candidates and select effective employees is preferred.
• Knowledge of quality processes and ability to implement the LSI quality policy.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Must demonstrate good judgment, problem solving skills, devotion to quality, and team building skills.
• Ability to deliver well-constructed, polished presentations and briefings for clients and team members.
• Ability to manage client expectations and coordinate with clients and staff to establish firm expectation alignments.
• Ability to manage and lead a team of Subject Matter Experts, Instructional Designers, Graphic Specialists, Programmers, providing goals, direction, daily tasking and recurring feedback to team members.
• Ability to analyze and interpret instructions and standards and develop work instructions.
• Understands and interprets contract and Task Order language and can develop schedules to implement the tasking.
• Familiar with financial management including budgeting, resource planning, financial reporting, and trends analysis.
• Ability to develop work estimates and cost estimates for various courseware development projects is preferred.
• Experience with DELTEK timesheet group is preferred.
• Experience with automated authoring tool is preferred i.e Kreus, Venus, Authorware.
• Must possess excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point and Visio).
• Must possess basic knowledge of MS Project and Earned Value Management software programs.
• Capable of operating standard office equipment, such as personal computers, e-mail accounts, telephones, copiers, scanners and facsimile machines and other required audio/visual equipment.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree from a recognized and accredited university is desirable. Project Manager ("PMP") certification is a plus.
• Ideally has 2-3 years' work experience on an LSI team responsible for developing IMI for training or a team responsible for the development of data for a series of technical publications.
• Work experience may be substituted for education requirement.