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Job Description:
Program Director
- Ready to take your engineering and program leadership career to the next level? Parsons is seeking a Program Director to lead a complex PMO program with significant impact on the local community.
- In this role, the Program Director is accountable for the strategic leadership, governance, and delivery of one or more large‑scale, complex programs and portfolios, typically valued up to $5Bn. The role provides enterprise‑level oversight across scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and stakeholder outcomes, while ensuring alignment with Parsons’ strategic objectives and contractual commitments.
- This position serves as Parsons’ senior representative to the client, leading multidisciplinary teams and driving consistent, high‑quality delivery across multiple projects and workstreams.
What You'll Be Doing
- Strategic Leadership & Governance: Establish and mature the PMO’s methodologies, processes, and tools, ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
- Portfolio Management: Oversee the end-to-end execution of enterprise-wide initiatives, directing projects, managing dependencies, and managing senior-level stakeholder expectations.
- Performance Optimization: Develop KPIs and dashboards to track program health, financial forecasting, and benefits realization.
- Risk & Issue Management: Identify, mitigate, and escalate program-level risks, driving decisions on scope, schedule, and cost trade-offs.
- Resource & Team Management: Hire, coach, and lead project management teams, fostering a culture of high performance and professional development.
- Client & Stakeholder Management; Act as Parsons’ senior representative with the client and key subcontractors throughout program execution. Lead negotiations related to scope changes, contractual matters, and commercial adjustments. Proactively manage senior stakeholder expectations, maintaining trust, transparency, and alignment.
- People, Resource & Capability Leadership Build, lead, and mentor large teams of Project Managers, Engineers, and technical professionals, fostering a culture of high performance, accountability, and professional development. Mobilize company resources across offices, regions, and support functions to assemble high‑performing delivery teams. Optimize resource allocation across multiple workstreams to ensure consistent quality and delivery excellence.
- Business Development & Growth: Collaborate closely with Business Development to identify, position, and secure additional work with existing and new clients, leveraging program success and client relationships.
What Required Skills You'll Bring;
- 25+ years of relevant experience, including significant supervisory and senior leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience managing large, complex programs or portfolios, including program $1- $5B
- Extensive experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams of Engineers, Project Managers, Designers, and technical support personnel.
- Proven background in project, program, and/or construction management at Program Director or equivalent senior level.
- Strong operational management experience, including personnel, facilities, and complex technical environments.
- Deep understanding of industry practices, regulations, and modern engineering and project management technologies.
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at executive, client, and board levels.
- Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management capability.
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Skills Required
- 25+ years of relevant experience, including significant supervisory and senior leadership responsibility
- Experience managing large, complex programs or portfolios, including programs valued $1B-$5B
- Extensive experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams of engineers, project managers, designers, and technical staff
- Proven background in project, program, and/or construction management at Program Director or equivalent senior level
- Strong operational management experience including personnel, facilities, and complex technical environments
- Deep understanding of industry practices, regulations, and modern engineering and project management technologies
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to engage at executive, client, and board levels
- Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management capability
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
