Knowledge Manager, Science

Job Details

Job Details:

Job Location:

PDOR Portland - Portland, OR 97204, Position Type:
Full Time, The Opportunity

PAE is an engineering and design firm that turns complex challenges into reality. By leveraging the latest technologies, we solve problems in unique ways, and our designs enable buildings and communities to be more resilient and efficient. PAE is trusted by our clients in every aspect of a project's lifespan, from idea to occupancy. We set ambitious goals backed by analysis to significantly conserve water and energy while balancing costs and long-term operational needs.

As a B Corp, we measure success by the benefits our projects provide to our clients, our communities, and our planet. We embrace innovation, transparency, sustainability, and lifelong curiosity.

• Develop and implement PAE’s enterprise knowledge management strategy and roadmap aligned with business and people strategies.
• Establish standards and governance for how organizational knowledge is created, organized, maintained, shared, archived, and retired.
• Develop and maintain PAE's enterprise taxonomy, metadata standards, information architecture, and content classifications.
• Identify and address gaps, outdated or duplicative content, conflicting information, and single points to organizational dependency.
• Establish a practical framework for distinguishing authoritative information from informal or collaborative content.

• Serve as business product owner for PAE's enterprise knowledge platform/intranet, leading business requirements, implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with IS on technology architecture, security, permissions, integrations, administration, and technical capabilities.
• Partner with Communications on editorial strategy, company communications, publishing standards, and employee experience.
• Use platform analytics, search behavior, employee feedback, and content performance to improve findability, usability, and platform effectiveness.

• Develop scalable processes for capturing and sharing institutional knowledge, technical expertise, project experience, lessons learned, and proven practices.
• Partner with technical and business leaders to identify high-value and critical knowledge for preservation and reuse.
• Improve access to reusable resources such as standards, templates, methodologies, best practices, case studies, tools, and project examples.
• Support communities of practice, SME networks, lessons learned, peer learning, and other mechanisms that connect employees with expertise across PAE

• Partner with L&D colleagues to create an integrated learning and knowledge ecosystem that supports both structured development and learning in the flow of work.
• Connect learning programs and pathways with relevant, knowledge resources, tools, SMEs, and communities of practice.
• Partner with L&D and SMEs to identify recurring knowledge needs and organizational expertise into reusable learning resources, guides, job aids, FAQs, case studies, and other performance-support tools.
• Use knowledge and search insights to help identify emerging learning needs and capability gaps across PAE.

• Partner with IS and business leaders to prepare PAE's organizational knowledge for AI-powered search, assistants, agents, and other emerging capabilities.
• Establish standards for identifying authoritative, current, properly permissioned, and AI-ready content.
• Identify and prioritize high-value AI knowledge use cases that improve employee access to trusted PAE knowledge.
• Ensure AI knowledge solutions align with PAE’s information security,…