Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Job

6170

Location

SLAC - Menlo Park, CA

Full-Time

Regular

** SLAC Job Postings*
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* Position overview:

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* This position is an employee of Stanford University, providing support to the Department of Energy (DOE) contract at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Project Management Office (PMO) Department, Design and Construction Services (DCS) group is seeking a Project Manager to deliver world-class design and construction of facilities and infrastructure projects in support of world-changing scientific research. The project manager will be responsible for planning, developing, procurement, design, construction, and close-out/transition to operations of infrastructure project scope(s) ranging from $50M to $500M).

SLAC has multiple projects planned to improve scientific research capabilities and to maintain existing infrastructure, including administrative spaces, scientific laboratories, clean rooms, campus-wide supporting civil infrastructure, and tunneling involving heavy civil underground construction.

The Project Manager is accountable to the Project Director and carries responsibility and authority for planning, coordinating, and executing critical project scopes to ensure the project's mission and program are met in terms of safety, quality, technical scope, cost, schedule, and resources.

This successful candidate will liaise with a broad range of SLAC organization groups and stakeholders, including SLAC scientists and physicists, operations and engineering, finance and contracting, facilities maintenance experts, and other project stakeholders. In addition, the project manager is responsible for coordinating the engineering and design process, managing A/E service design contracts and construction contracts during construction. The project manager will present project information to various stakeholders, including the DOE in Project Reviews, the SLAC Project Assurance Group, and regular monthly meetings attended by senior leaders.

Superb written and oral communication skills are required to communicate with all levels of project stakeholders. Prior experience with federal acquisition regulations, federal funding policies, and the DOE Order 413.3B projects is highly desired.

** Your specific responsibilities include:*
* + The primary focus for this position will be on delivering design and construction work scopes for the assigned project.

+ Manage the entire collection of projects and/or programs undertaken by an organization or division in a manner that ensures their alignment with SLAC's strategic objectives.

+ Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple engineering systems and disciplines.

+ Development and management of critical paths and schedules. This position requires detailed knowledge of project schedule, with a high level of awareness on interdependencies with other major projects' schedule and laboratory's operation downtimes.

+ Direct development of project execution plan, communication plan and acquisition strategy plans. Responsible for development of resources plan for assigned project control accounts, including level of effort for management, supporting labor, materials, and time required to complete the assigned project control accounts.

+ Facilitate discussions and negotiations between SLAC stakeholders to drive consensus on project design and operation requirements.

+ Direct the work of contractors and Architects/Engineers consultants to successfully complete the assigned project control accounts. Ensure that project requirements are captured and the design meets the program requirements as established by the project stakeholders and approved project documentation.

+ Utilize approved project management system, processes and tools during design and construction to ensure alignment with SLAC Project Management Office and DOE's reporting requirements from an overall Project Status and Quality Assurance perspective.

+ Utilize comprehensive change management strategy and…