Project Manager (Early Career)

Job Description

Project Manager (Early Career) | Lockheed Martin

The Tone:
This is an early career Project Manager position at Lockheed Martin, situated within the Visual Communications department. The role is designed for a detail-oriented and proactive individual who will support a creative team, ensuring that all projects are executed with operational consistency and accuracy. This position is key for reinforcing strong processes, maintaining clear communication, and implementing disciplined project tracking. Working under the guidance of senior project managers or leadership, this role offers a foundational opportunity to build essential project management skills while directly contributing to the successful delivery of critical visual communication initiatives for Lockheed Martin.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Part-time Remote Telework (Hybrid)
• Location: Fort Worth, TX (Hybrid)

• Team: Visual Communications, supporting the creative team, partnering with peer project managers and under guidance of senior PMs/leadership.
• Mission: Support the execution of creative projects by focusing on coordination, documentation, and operational accuracy, ensuring projects are properly set up, tracked, and closed within established processes.
• Tech Stack: WMJ, Workamajig (or similar PM software), project tracking systems or similar tools.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Project Intake and Data Entry: Support the initial project intake process by thoroughly reviewing all incoming requests for completeness, ensuring that accurate and comprehensive data is entered into the WMJ system.
• Schedule Development and Monitoring: Assist in the development of detailed project schedules, actively tracking key milestones, coordinating meetings to document action items, and diligently monitoring all assigned tasks to ensure adherence to established timelines.
• Documentation and Risk Escalation: Maintain precise project documentation and ensure all required system fields are accurately populated. Proactively track overall project status and promptly escalate any identified risks or potential delays to senior Project Managers for resolution.
• Budget and Close-out Support: Provide essential operational assistance with budget tracking and reporting for various creative projects. Additionally, facilitate and support the timely and efficient close-out process for all completed projects.
• Stakeholder and Creative Team Communication: Communicate essential project updates to internal stakeholders, operating under the guidance of senior team members. Partner closely with creative professionals to ensure clear understanding of project scope and defined deliverables, contributing administrative support for an efficient workflow.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early Career professional supporting creative project execution.
• Experience: 1+ year of project coordination or project management experience, including working in environments with multiple priorities.
• Skills: Strong organizational skills, effective communication, experience with project tracking systems or similar tools, and strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Bonus: Exposure to creative or marketing workflows, experience with Workamajig, demonstrated ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities, and experience working with Visual Communications or Creative Teams.