Senior or Lead Project Management Specialist

Senior or Lead Project Management Specialist

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior or Lead Project Management Specialist (Level 4 or Level 5) to join the PAC-3 Special Test Equipment (STE) team within the Integrated Air Missile Defense Organization in Huntsville, AL!

Strong communication and organizational skills are critical to success in this position, along with the ability to build strong relationships, collaborate in a cross-functional environment, and utilize problem-solving skills to proactively identify and manage risks and opportunities.

Position Responsibilities:

• Prepares, analyzes, coordinates, assigns, integrates, and maintains project plans, programs, and initiatives
• Creates and conducts studies, performs analyses (trend, variance, impact), and conducts risk assessments to determine impacts and constraints involving product development, production rates, and process improvement
• Prepares schedules, monitors metrics, manages change activities, and regularly communicates updates throughout the lifecycle of the program or project
• Manages change management processes, communicates decisions and best practices to stakeholders, and coordinates ongoing projects while serving as a liaison between cross-functional teams
• Performs project management activities in accordance with accepted industry standards, documents lessons learned during project closeout, and works with customers to develop recovery plans, provide relevant documentation, and transition projects to customers for ongoing support, ensuring commitment to stakeholders
• Leads, develops, coordinates, integrates, analyzes, and maintains integrated plans and schedules for complex projects, programs and change driven activities in accordance with project management industry
• Leads studies/analysis (trend, variance, impact), reports, risk assessments and planning efforts to determine impacts, constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, program initiatives
• Identifies risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case
• Facilitates and ensures integration of project/program plan, schedules, change and baseline management, processes, techniques considered to be best practice across the industry
• Acts as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives
• Coordinates commitments with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill strategies

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Huntsville, AL.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 3+ years of experience in Program or Project Management
• 3+ years of experience working with and partnering with cross-functional teams on projects and initiatives
• 3+ years of experience using Microsoft Project
• Experience with RIO (Risk, Issues, and Opportunities) in project planning
• Experience in interpreting data and presenting analysis and/or recommendations to management

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Senior Level 4: More than 5 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Lead Level 5: More than 10 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Current Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Experience using Program Management Best Practices

Conflict of interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Travel: Position may require travel up to 10% of the time.

Shift: 1st Shift

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. 

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