Project Manager at ACS Professional Staffing in Vancouver, Washington

Job Description:

• Location: Vancouver, Washington
• Type: Contract
• Job #8003

Overview:


ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Project Manager 3 role will, along with key managerial stakeholders, architects, project managers, subject matter experts, and compliance staff, facilitate the efforts in the development and execution of the Transmission Technology strategy. The assigned organization is responsible for providing Transmission technology support services, including Strategy & Architecture, Program Planning & Delivery, Financial & Resource Management, Procurement Management, Process Management & Service Delivery Maturity, and Reliability Standards Owner, reporting to the Internal Operations Manager. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.



Pay range: $53.59 - $76.56



Benefits:

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  Paid holidays: 11


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  PTO: Starting at 10 days


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  Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)


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  EAP: Employee Assistance Program


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  Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)


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  Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management expertise and support and facilitate manager-assigned TT Services Internal Business Operations project or projects, from beginning to end, providing expert guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology, best practices, and internal skill development as requested by and with guidance from the manager, team lead, or other personnel with the authority to do so, including:


• Facilitate and assist management to plan, initiate, and implement various projects as defined in the Transmission Technology Strategic Plan.


• Organize, coordinate, and facilitate the work of project team(s) and serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects, which includes plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage.


• Monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets, alerting appropriate manager / personnel of any obstacles / potential delays to project timelines, targets, or success; provide corrective action recommendations.


• Forecast and recommend / request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs; resource requests must be submitted to, coordinated with, and provided by appropriate Performance Managers.


• Plan and coordinate activities for designated project(s) to verify that goals or objectives of the project are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters.


• Obtain appropriate authorization for any potential changes to project cost, schedule, or performance; alert those with a need to know (manager, COR, Procurement, etc.).


• Draft project plans, resource strategies, and develop funding estimates required to advance each defined effort.


• Facilitate project meetings between a variety of departments and disciplines.


• Provide recommendations regarding assessment approach and deliverables.


• Coordinate the creation and documentation of revised processes, standards, and roles and responsibilities.


• Maintain consistent communication with the project sponsor, performance managers, and clients on the progress of the project versus the plan.


• Communicate regularly with executive sponsors, key stakeholders, strategic partners, and Tier II managers across the organization independently and in team meetings.


• Address and navigate politically sensitive issues in a collaborative and professional manner; collaborate with manager / personnel for guidance, as needed.


• Provide background information, technical input, options, and recommendations for project decisions as requested by manager / personnel; work with appropriate parties to facilitate resolution of conflicting team positions.


• Issue project status reports on a regular or as requested basis.


• Collaborate and work with project sponsors and performance managers to remove obstacles impacting timely project completion.


• Draft a final project report, including project "lessons-learned", for appropriate management review and acceptance.


• Take a pro-active stance on project risk management:


• Anticipate and identify potential areas of risk and obtain guidance from appropriate manager, COR, or Contracting Officer (CO).


• Track, monitor, and facilitate resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects, as well as compliance related dependencies.


• Maintain issue, risk, and/or action logs.


• Develop, draft and recommend contingency plans to minimize / eliminate risks on an ongoing basis for review and acceptance by appropriate manager / personnel.


• Facilitate and/or support the following functions:


• Written and Verbal Sponsor and Stakeholder Communication.


• Project Team Coordination, including milestone management and communication of deliverables.


• Monitor issues and risks identified within the project as well as integrated dependencies and the issues and risk associated with those assumptions.


• Team Meeting Management and Sponsor Meeting Management.


• Facilitate and/or support the following deliverables:


• Scope Definition and Management.


• Business Requirements and Needs Analysis from various stakeholder perspectives.


• Process and System Design requirements.


• Gap Analysis from the "as is" to the "to be" state.


• Implement Organizational Design and Change Management requirements as developed within the Transmission Technology program.


• Implementation Planning including optimizing milestones and building upon successes.


• Integration Architecture Design.


• End User Training.


• When necessary, manage the successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager including any training, documentation, or meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed on all critical aspects of the work and introduce them to executive sponsors and key stakeholders.


• Coordinate and assist management with transitions of identified project resources as needed. This may include gathering information from departing/transitioning resources to identify subject matter expertise, documenting workloads, identifying training requirements to facilitate smooth transitions.


• Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements. Share and disperse documents only to appropriate personnel (those with a need to know). Mark and maintain all official records in accordance with the Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) standards and procedures. Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, information technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is preferred.


• 10 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree.


• 14 years of direct work experience is required without a degree or a non-applicable degree.


• Experience should include direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution for medium to large sized projects.


• Note: Level 3 is typically responsible for medium - to large -sized projects (25M and higher lifecycle cost). "Typically," as it refers to project size, is determined by an average of the worker's assigned projects and includes the complexity, visibility, and sensitivity of the projects within the past year and is not based on a single project-funding amount.


• Demonstrated project management experience with business services capabilities projects using industry standard methods and tools for managing schedules, dependencies, resources, funding, and developing technical specifications and project plans.


• Experience successfully coordinating or running multiple projects simultaneously as a program.


• Intermediate level experience with Microsoft Project, Visio, and SharePoint Server environments.


• Experience in demand/resource planning and Strategy.


• Project and program management experience within an Information Technology or Operational Technology environment


• Valid U.S. Driver's License is required.

Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.

Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.

ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant's race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.

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