CMMC Compliance Project Manager

Aptiv Interconnect is seeking a CMMC project manager to monitor, track, and manage its CMMC program and maintain continuous compliance across the business. The role coordinates stakeholders and technical and operational teams, manages compliance risks and evidence, and supports achievement of compliance certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Establish project scope, nimble deliverables with realistic timelines, and define objectives
• Provide concise communication across teams to ensure expectations are understood, executives are briefed, and real-time status is provided
• Monitoring KPIs, deadlines, and project health against developed plans. Minimize scope creep and excessive. Identifying potential risks early and developing mitigation plans. Troubleshooting unexpected obstacles, delays, or resource conflicts as they arise
• Achieve compliance certifications. Review actual budget and performance vs planned budget and performance metrics. Improve plans to ensure scalability for anticipated growth
• Understand the objectives of all 110 controls in the NIST 800-171 Framework. Familiarity of how controls are tested for adequacy and sufficiency. Ensure POAM owners are held accountable
• Facilitate ongoing evidence collection. Organize artifacts to ensure collection methods repeatable year over year
• Understand policy statements. Ensure documentation is complete and review deadlines are met
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and export control laws including ITAR, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX, SOC2

Requirements:

• Understand the objectives of all 110 controls in the NIST 800-171 Framework
• Familiarity of how controls are tested for adequacy and sufficiency
• Understand policy statements
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and export control laws including ITAR, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX, SOC2
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of hands-on experience project management of cybersecurity compliance programs including CMMC
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in project management
• Manufacturing and Defense Contracting
• U.S. Citizenship required
• CMMC RP
• Hands-on experience with project management platforms such as monday.com and Jira
• Experience with dashboard reporting tools such as Power BI
• Demonstrating empathy, active listening, and self-awareness to build trust, maintain team morale, and manage stress in high-stakes environments
• Resolving team friction
• PMP or CAPM preferred