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Automation and Control Strategies Group, INC. dba ACS Professional Staffing IT Project Manager 3 in Vancouver, Washington
- Location: Vancouver, Washington
- Type: Contract
- Job #8077 Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This IT Project Manager 3 position will support and manage multiple projects related to Transmission Grid Modernization, ensuring operational requirements are met. Responsibilities include facilitating meetings, gathering project requirements, developing work plans, schedules, and deliverables, and coordinating resources across teams. This role requires collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, tracking project costs and timelines, and addressing risks or issues. Key tasks include reviewing and validating project specifications, coordinating testing, and maintaining communication with project teams and management. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay Rate: $51.67 - $73.82 Benefits:
- Paid holidays: 11
- PTO: Starting at 10 days
- Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
- EAP: Employee Assistance Program
- Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
- Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks Responsibilities:
- Support and facilitate manager-assigned project or multiple projects, relating primarily to operational requirements for Transmission Grid Modernization changes, from beginning to end in collaboration with senior management, external industry entities, and stakeholders by providing expert support on the PMI-based project management methodology, best practices, and internal skill development, including:
- Facilitate working sessions, collaborate, and participate in discussions with various groups within the Control Center, Transmission Technology, Asset Management, Security Dispatch, the Outage Office, and other interested parties to gather project requirements (and comments), develop and recommend project work plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, etc.
- Liaise with other project managers to determine System Operations resource needs and schedules for projects, verifying the coordination of control center activities with design, construction, and system / equipment testing schedules when projects are placed into the work plan.
- Coordinate, arrange and facilitate business requirements gathering sessions; conduct needs analysis from various stakeholder perspectives; work with SMEs and the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) to review, draft and recommend project specifications.
- Provide input and recommendations for a standard Project Requirements Documents (PRD) review process, incorporating SME input, technical data, and other requirements to meet company and industry standards.
- Facilitate and validate System Operations (TO), FISMA and NERC-CIP requirements are identified in field project planning documentation.
- Collaborate and coordinate with field project managers on official energization dates to provide to account executives (AEs) for use in contracts and work orders. Confirm with project managers that realistic schedules are provided for customer contracts.
- Work with field project managers (PMs), project team(s), the COR, and Asset Management staff to review and update official cost, resource, and time estimates for the organization's portion of field projects.
- Serve as a point of contact for field organizations on multiple assigned projects, providing project details, goals, milestones, deliverables, and resource schedules as wel