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Leidos · 4 hours ago

Senior Project Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$87K/yr - $157K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.

Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions.

Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects

Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers, and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project

Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources

Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures

Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables

Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards.

Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables

Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals

Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates

Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

Qualification

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Electric Utility ExperienceProject Financial ManagementProject ManagementMicrosoft ProjectCollaboration Skills

Required

Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Technology, Computer Science or related degree with eight plus (8+) years of experience. May consider more years of relevant experience in lieu of degree

Four plus (4+) years of relevant experience within the Electric Utility field

In-depth Project Management experience handling Project Financials, Schedules, Scope, and Testing with strong communication / presentation skills

Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office processes and procedures

Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships, and external networks

Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed

Excellent customer facing skills

Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities

Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool

Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate.