Project Manager 3

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an on-site Project Manager 3 to lead complex strategic initiatives from planning through execution, driving business improvements, managing project scope, resources, risks, timelines, and stakeholder communications. The ideal candidate has experience leading cross-functional projects, facilitating change management efforts, developing KPIs and reporting, and delivering process improvement solutions. Utility industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management expertise and support for manager-assigned strategic initiative projects, from beginning to end, including guidance on PMI-based methodology, best practices, and internal skill development.
• Implement and track the success of strategic goals and business improvement initiatives.
• Provide recommendations regarding project expectations, approach, roadmaps, work plans, deliverables, and goals.
• Communicate and collaborate with implementing organizations, process owners, and policy owners to facilitate strategic initiatives.
• Identify and draft recommendations for necessary subject matter expertise during projects.
• Forecast and recommend appropriate project resources; coordinate with performance managers for approval.
• Collaborate with business units and performance managers to resolve resource allocation issues.
• Recommend roadmaps to achieve program initiatives and project objectives.
• Draft project plans and resource strategies for assigned projects.
• Alert manager of potential changes to project scope, schedule, or performance and obtain authorization.
• Organize, coordinate, and facilitate project team work, serving as liaison between business and technical aspects.
• Monitor progress to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, and standards; alert managers of obstacles or delays and provide corrective action recommendations.
• Coordinate project activities to accomplish goals within time and funding parameters, escalating concerns as needed.
• Collaborate with managers and stakeholders to facilitate project tasks and understand business needs and dependencies.
• Address politically sensitive issues collaboratively, escalating to managers as needed.
• Provide technical input, options, and recommendations for project decisions.
• Issue regular project status reports and maintain communication with sponsors, managers, and clients.
• Collaborate with sponsors and managers to remove obstacles impacting timely project completion.
• Develop and report on metrics and outcomes (KPIs, scorecards, dashboards).
• Draft final project reports, including "lessons-learned," for management review.
• Proactively manage project risks by identifying potential areas of risk, maintaining issue/risk logs, and developing contingency plans.
• Support and facilitate written and verbal sponsor communication, project team coordination, milestone management, and deliverables communication.
• Coordinate with IT resources and program enterprise architects.
• Manage team and sponsor meetings.
• Support deliverables including scope definition, business requirements analysis, organizational design, change management, process/system design, and gap analysis.
• Integrate architecture design and create end-user training materials.
• Facilitate documentation of revised processes and organizational roles.
• Maintain compliance with filing systems, marking documents, and dispersing them only to authorized personnel.
• Validate official records for auditing purposes in accordance with INFOSEC and IGLM standards.
• Develop and foster relationships with stakeholders, including strategic partners and managers at all levels.
• Communicate regularly with executive sponsors, stakeholders, and managers in team meetings.
• Facilitate project transitions to new project managers, including training and documentation.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or Management, Organizational Development, Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
• With an applicable bachelor’s degree: 10 years of experience required.
• With a non-applicable bachelor’s degree: 12 years of experience required.
• Without a bachelor’s degree: 14 years of experience required.
• Experience must include direct work in a project management capacity, managing projects in accordance with industry principles, including process development and execution.
• Knowledge of product management and process management.
• Advanced working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Strong analytic and root cause identification skills.
• Experience influencing and integrating change in large, diverse organizations.
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels of a large company.
• Experience leading project teams and management review sessions for organization-level improvement efforts.
• Ability to influence others and align diverse groups toward common goals.
• Ability to organize and analyze detailed information and present it to business, executive, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of change management, work tracking, and time management processes.
• PMI or PMP certification.
• Experience in resource planning.
• Intermediate experience with SharePoint for document management.
• Ability to accurately assess and estimate project costs.
• Ability to work autonomously on assigned tasks.
• Strategic thinker with confidence and speed in execution.
• Professional and collaborative demeanor with excellent listening, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in the utility business is preferred.
• Valid U.S. Driver’s License required.
• U.S. citizenship required; work sponsorship is not available.

Benefits

• Paid holidays: 11 days
• PTO: Starting at 10 days
• Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Benefit Options: 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, Hospital Indemnity
• 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions; employer match up to 4%)
• Calm App
• LifeBalance Discount Program

Pay

$49.57 - $70.82 per hour

Schedule

Full-time, on-site position located in Vancouver, WA.