IT Project Manager- Infrastructure 03077 HMIS NWSOL

Location: Richland, WA
Title: IT Project Manager-Infrastructure
Schedule (FT/PT): FT
Travel Required: As Needed
Clearance: Ability to Obtain

North Wind Solutions is a Government contracting small business with operations at military and civilian installations across the United States. The company’s focus is facilities operation and maintenance, waste management and radiological services, security control and force protection, and environmental services.

Job Description

POSITION PURPOSE:

North Wind Solutions (NWSOL) is a government contracting small business with operations at military and civilian installations across the United States. The Richland site project’s primary focus is providing mission critical support for the Hanford site in the areas of Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure deployment and management to include network operations, End User Support services, Application Engineering with emphasis on software development and support, Records Management, and Project Management for the execution across the spectrum of provided services.

The Project Management organization is primarily responsible for the management of hundreds of software application and infrastructure projects at the Hanford Site. The North Winds team is in the midst of a major modernization effort towards a more agile methodology. In this phase of the transformation, project managers are responsible to ensure we maintain current processes while assisting and encouraging the implementation of new, agile processes alongside them.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position will lead cross organizational teams, providing project management support on multiple small, mid-level, and enterprise level IT infrastructure projects simultaneously. This Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of projects ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, contractual commitments, and goals. Specific duties include but are not limited to the following:

Schedule Management:

• Create and maintain project schedules, including resource allocations, and stakeholder requirements.
• Regularly meet with development team to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review actual hours worked vs planned hours to ensure deadlines and budgets are maintained.
• Estimating and Budget Management:
• Provide rough order magnitude (ROM) estimates utilizing approved processes with input from development team. Manage project’s budget, monitor progress, and evaluate project performance throughout project life cycle against planned budget.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• 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.

Change Control:

• Document change control items per standard project management process, procedures, and best practices; tracking impact to schedule, scope, resources, and cost.

Risk & Quality Management:

• 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.

DevSecOps & Production Support Process Adherence:

• Lead and direct project teams in a manner that adheres to DevSecOps and production support policies, including sitewide and contractor specific procedures, related to standard development management, release management, change management, software quality assurance (SQA), and production support. Ensure understanding of all applicable procedures for each contractor project supported.

Project Reporting, Documentation, and Deliverables:

• Provide weekly and monthly project reporting to all stakeholders ensuring insight into the project status. Ensure required contract deliverables are tracked to completion, delivered on time, and meets customer expectations. Ensure SQA documentation is created, maintained, approved, and issued per Project Contractor’s applicable procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability requi