Project Manager

This position is 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Key Responsibilities:

· Coordinate multiple departments, vendors, and assets to ensure timely and cost-effective execution of major scope milestones.

· Establish collaborative partnership among stakeholders to enable scoping, financial and resource decisions.

· Identify, document, and elevate cross-organizational and vendor-driven dependencies, and work with managers and peers across the organization to develop and implement appropriate dependency management processes.

· Establish appropriate project governance structures and processes by engaging executive sponsor and key stakeholders to develop appropriate thresholds and cadence for governance discussions.

Project Management Service Task Order

· Coach junior level project management and matrixed team members and
provides guidance on adherence to the Project Management practices.

· Work with senior leaders to contribute relevant data to support annual planning activities.

· Provide financial project performance and forecasting reports to CS senior management and program team.

· Identify and evaluate the risks associated with project activities and work across organizations to establish and monitor mitigation plans.

· Identify, document and spear-head evaluation of changes based on cost, schedule, risk, and scope impacts as well as cross-functional dependencies. Ensure appropriate packaging of relevant information to support appropriate project change and governance decision processes.

· Develop and maintain required project management artifacts in accordance
with Company Project Management standards and applicable regulations.

· Identify efficiencies and present recommended improvement opportunities at various levels of management.

Required Skills & Work Experience

· Strong project management skills with prior experience managing complex cross-functional projects in a highly matrixed environment.

· Experience with cross-project/program dependency identification and management

· Strong Written and Oral communication skills with ability to present complex information and respond to complex needs of a large and visible project or program.

· Ability to network with internal and external stakeholders, and leverage relationships to resolve complex project issues.

· Effectiveness working diplomatically across teams with varying objectives.

· Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project),

· Bachelors degree and a minimum of 6 years of project management experience, or any equivalent combination of education and work experience

· PMP (Must be willing to obtain within 12 months of date of hire)

· Must have work authorization in the United States.

Preferred Skills & Work Experience

· Transportation industry experience

· Design and Construction experience is a plus

· Direct or matrixed people management experience