Project Manager

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for cross-functional initiatives, planning and executing delivery from kickoff through close while ensuring disciplined management of scope, schedule, quality, governance, change control, and successful achievement of project objectives and deliverables.
• Lead operational readiness and continuity programs, shaping priorities, supporting planning cycles, and ensuring asset lifecycle, dependencies, and risk considerations are addressed to support organizational resilience.
• Deliver executive-level, decision-oriented communication and insights, including clear status updates, dashboards, and recommendations; proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, trade-offs, ensuring analysis is validated and recommendations are actionable.
• Apply strong business and organizational acumen to independently assess operational, technical, and process issues, validate assumptions and data; and advise leadership on pragmatic, scalable solutions that reduce risk and strengthen long-term operational health.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to improve tools, workflows, and supplier-facing processes, actively contributing expertise to solution design and validation driving consistency, efficiency and operational maturity.
• Cook up structured root-cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts to strengthen processes and embed learnings.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships to support smooth operational execution, effectively influencing across organizational boundaries in both in-person and virtual environments.
• Develop and maintain business process documentation (procedures, narratives, diagrams, flowcharts) to strengthen policies, controls, and operational clarity.
• Prepare and deliver audience-specific communications that clearly convey complex concepts including impacts, data analytics, and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 5–8 years of progressive experience in business operations, financial operations, or project management. Strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Proven experience collaborating across matrixed, cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders at multiple levels. Strong financial acumen with the ability to analyze data and support informed business decisions. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to work in a hybrid model with a minimum of two (2) days per week onsite in the Boulder office.
• Preferred Qualifications: Engineering background or experience working in technical or development-focused environments. PMP and/or Agile certifications. Advanced Excel skills and strong PowerPoint capabilities. Experience analyzing complex operational and financial challenges and delivering data-driven recommendations. Demonstrated experience driving process improvements or efficiency initiatives.