Project Manager III

Position Overview

This position will lead cross organizational teams, providing project management support on multiple small, mid-level, and enterprise level IT infrastructure projects simultaneously with very limited oversight from management. Infrastructure project support includes the assessment, maintenance, documentation, modernization, testing, and implementation / deployment for both software and hardware products.

The project manager is responsible for supporting strategic initiatives at the Hanford site which will include defining tasks and timelines, coordinating across departments, managing budgets, and ensuring timely delivery. The project manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of projects ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, contractual commitments, and goals.

• Create and maintain detailed project schedules, including resource allocations.
• Regularly meet with development team members to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review actual hours worked vs planned hours to ensure deadlines and budgets are maintained.

• Provide ROM estimates utilizing the approved OSC/HMIS Business Office processes with input from development team.
• Ability to create a Detailed Cost Estimate to provide a more comprehensive response when requested by customer utilizing the approved OSC/HMIS Business Office processes.
• Once approval and funds are received, ensure project cost are tracked throughout project life cycle against the planned schedule and budget.
• Manage any cost variance and report overall project progress and execution within the project portfolio management system as required.
• Demonstrate basic understanding of and ability to apply Earned Value Management System (EVMS) techniques to projects as required.

• Demonstrate effective communication and presentation skills to both internal and external project stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, maintain productive relationships, and ensure client engagement during the project life cycle.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate to all levels within the organization, including senior management, at the appropriate level of technical depth depending on the audience.

• Document change control items per standard project management process, procedures, and best practices; track impact to schedule, scope, resources, or cost.
• Demonstrate ability to influence all levels of the organization and stakeholders of the importance of proper change control during all stages of the SDLC.

• Identify, assess, document, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout the project life cycle.
• Develop and maintain contingency plans based on identified project risks.
• Understand when and where to seek guidance and/or input on the quality requirements from various stakeholders.
• Demonstrate ability to identify quality gaps, align with the stakeholders on quality requirements, and help ensure that the development teams are uniformly delivering the quality requirements of a given project.

• Ensure your teams adhere to Dev Sec Ops  and production support policies and procedures (including contractor-specific procedures) related to standard development management, release management, change management, SQA, and production support.
• Ensure that you have an in-depth understanding of all applicable procedures for each contractor project supported.
• Lead and direct your team in a manner that adheres to all sitewide and…