Facilities Project Manager
Princeton, NJJob$120–160K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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SAIC seeks a Facilities Project Manager to manage facilities operations and infrastructure projects at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. The role covers strategic facilities planning, maintenance programs, and capital and infrastructure projects from concept through closeout, including work in high-performance computing or other critical environments. The manager leads teams and contractors and reports on project and strategic facilities initiatives.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a resource to manage facilities operations and infrastructure projects at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, based out of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ. Candidate will be responsible for strategic facilities planning, preventive/corrective maintenance programs, and delivery of capital and infrastructure projects from concept through closeout.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead facilities teams and contractors.
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Develop and execute facility maintenance plans and long-term infrastructure strategies.
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Analyze and monitor physical plant and critical systems to ensure reliability and compliance.
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Plan, manage, and deliver facilities/infrastructure projects (scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk) across the full lifecycle.
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Lead RFPs, procurement, and contract execution; ensure adherence to project management SOPs and best practices.
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Support/lead work impacting high-performance computing (HPC) or other critical environments, including new facility build-outs and life safety/infrastructure retrofit projects.
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Prepare concise reports and executive-level presentations on project and strategic facilities initiatives.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business or other related scientific or technical discipline.
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10+ years’ experience in facilities engineering/operations and infrastructure project management, including responsibility for large or complex programs.
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Proven experience developing maintenance strategies and capital infrastructure plans.
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Demonstrated success managing multi-disciplinary teams, contractors, and multiple concurrent projects.
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Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate building systems, infrastructure conditions, and life-cycle cost trade-offs.
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Proficiency with standard project management tools and methods (e.g., MS Project or equivalent, risk and issue tracking).
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in one or more: HPC/data center, academic/research facilities, or federal/public-sector projects.
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Familiarity with Integrated Facilities Management (IFM).
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Professional certifications such as PMP (Project Management Professional), CFM (Certified Facility Manager), CHFM, or similar.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618857
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 1,325 open Facilities Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–160K/yr
- New Jersey median$103–120K/yr33 salary ranges
- US median$110–140K/yr928 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 27% above the New Jersey median midpoint ($110K) — in the top quarter of Facilities Manager salary ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 41 open Facilities Manager jobs in New Jersey and 1,325 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Facilities Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,079 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 174 of the 1,325 open Facilities Manager jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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