Location: Bellevue, WA preferred (mostly remote, occasional meetings on-site in Bellevue)
Target Start Date: 12/09/2024
Estimated End Date: 3/14/2025 (likely extension)
Pay Rate: up to $70/hr
Core Responsibilities:
The Site Acquisition (SAQ) PM team is divided into 5 Regions as follows: the North America, South America, Europe, Middle East/Africa, and Asia-Pacific and will conduct site tracking for their regions. PMs will work closely with the Regional Business Developers (RBDs) and Global Infrastructure Program Management (GIPM) TPMs within their assigned region.
SAQ PMs manage the Due Diligence tasks and documentation for their regions. The Due Diligence program reviews environmental, radio frequency interference, title, line of sight and natural hazards risk. The Due Diligence program, combined with the review that takes place during the Site Assessment phase, ensure that SAQ contracts for sites that meet all technical requirements, pose minimal risk to acquire, and are cost effective to lease, permit, license, build and operate.
SAQ PMs are responsible for liaising between the RBDs and GIPM team to maintain accurate schedule dates and site data in Smartsheet (the internal tracking system), and for attending the recurring Regional meetings led by the GIPM TPMs to report on SAQ progress.
Ongoing Tasks -PMs will conduct the following areas of site tracking and due diligence, to include but not limited to:
Communicate due diligence results so that internal partners and external vendors clearly understand the results and how to action on them.
Conduct and manage regional vendor set-up in Smartsheet (internal tracking system)
Ensure vendors and internal stakeholders are receiving the latest program requirements documents.
Programmatically track and report out on regional site and milestone status.
Attend Global Infrastructure Project Management (GIPM) regional meetings.
Follow Procure to Pay processes and approvals for contracts and work orders.
Order and procure POs for DD or other SAQ-related fees
Populate location, landlord and other relevant site information in Smartsheet upon Site Candidate Information Package ("SCIP") approval
Request site codes.
Leverage mechanisms to manage due diligence budget and schedule.
Manage the overall Due Diligence process and in collaboration with other PMs, maintain and update process documentation and operating procedures as needed (e.g., Wiki).
Responsible for properly maintaining site-specific documentation within Workdocs
Completion of Reserved Site Order ("RSO") and Provisioned Site Order ("PSO") checklists (with approval from RBD)
Spot risks, ask the right questions, clear blockers, ensure the right tradeoffs are made, and escalate appropriately.