Technical Project Manager

Location

Remote

United States

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Employment Type

Full time

risk management
MS Project
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Role Description

  • For select engagements, leads all phases of project management in alignment with PMO practices, including, but not limited to, the following:
    • Develops and maintains work plans with baselines and variance reporting to monitor progress
    • Establishes and implements communication plan
    • Develops and maintains Stakeholder Register and RACI Charts
    • Develops and maintains project Risk Register
    • Develops and seeks approval for Project Charter
    • Develops comprehensive project Scope Statement and ensures traceability to project workplan
    • Develops project workplan and ensures workplan is viable through scope traceability, critical path, and quality assessments
    • Conducts workplan status IAW the project Communications Plan and analyzes project variances, critical path, root cause and impact
    • Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation
    • Implements risk management processes to minimize project risks and issues to identify root cause, impact, and risk responses to lessen or eliminate impact to project delivery
    • Regularly monitors and reports on progress of the project to all stakeholders, including the presentation of detailed periodic reports defining project progress, variances, risks, and issues
    • Interfaces regularly with customers, project subcontractors, Senior Leadership and Executive Leadership and the IT Steering Committee where applicable
    • Responsible for overall project quality assurance
    • Implements and manages project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree required
  • 7+ years’ technical project management experience, understand Agile Development Processes
  • Project Management Certification (PMP) is required

Requirements

  • 5 years’ experience utilizing MS Project
  • 5 years’ demonstrated experience in project schedule planning to include WBS development and decomposition of project work plans and activities
  • Demonstrated understanding of project critical path identification and analysis
  • Demonstrated experience and application in conducting project schedule status, variance analysis and mitigation strategies
  • Demonstrated experience and application of risk management to include; qualitative and quantitative analysis, root cause, impact, and risk response strategies
  • Demonstrated experience and application of project scope development and work plan traceability
  • Demonstrated experience and application of stakeholder management and development/utilization of a RACI
  • Demonstrated experience and application of communications management, both written and orally, to include team facilitation, project status reporting, and Executive level briefing
  • Demonstrated experience and application of formal project change management
  • Dedication to accomplishing goals and challenges presented by clients and management
  • Ability to operate in both a team situation and independently with minimal supervision

Benefits

  • Medical and dental care benefits
  • 401k
  • PTO
  • Parental leave
  • Bereavement leave