Senior IT Project Manager (IV) 03202 NWSOL

Location: Richland, WA
Title: Senior IT Project Manager IV
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.

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Project Management organization is primarily responsible for the management of hundreds of software application 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 software development 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 software projects simultaneously with little or no oversight from management. Software project support includes the assessment, maintenance, documentation, modernization, testing, and implementation for both custom applications and Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) products. This position requires in depth knowledge of project management professional principles (e.g., PMI) and practices.

The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for supporting strategic initiatives at the Hanford site which will include defining tasks and timelines, coordinating across departments, managing budgets, and ensuring timely delivery. The 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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience:

• BA/BS in an IT-related field OR combination of education and work experience plus more than 7 years IT related experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of IT project management experience.
• Minimum of 2 years workin