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* Location: Vancouver, Washington
* Type: Contract
* Job #8591
Overview:
ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This IT Project Manager 3 will lead and coordinate complex IT and OT cybersecurity projects from initiation through closeout, applying PMI-based project management best practices. The role oversees project planning, scheduling, resourcing, risk management, and stakeholder communication to ensure scope, cost, and timeline objectives are met. This position collaborates across technical and business teams, prepares project documentation and status reports, and drives issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate brings strong IT project management expertise across software, network infrastructure, and application integration projects, with proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, MS Project, and full system development lifecycles. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.
Pay Rate: $51.01 - $72.88
Benefits:
* Paid holidays: 11
* PTO: Starting at 10 days
* Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
* EAP: Employee Assistance Program
* Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
* Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program
Responsibilities:
* Provide project management expertise, support, and facilitation of manager-assigned Control Center (CC) Cyber Security OT projects, from beginning to end, providing expert guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology, best practices, and internal skill development, including:
* Identify and request necessary subject matter experts needed during the project.
* Forecast and recommend/request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs; resource requests must be submitted to and assigned by Performance Managers.
* Collaborate with internal business units and Performance Managers to resolve resource allocation issues.
* Schedule and facilitate project team meetings.
* Recommend an overall roadmap of efforts required to achieve program initiatives and project objectives.
* Provide recommendations regarding project expectations, approach, roadmaps, work plans, deliverables, and goals.
* Draft project plans, resource strategies, and funding estimates required to advance each assigned project / defined effort.
* Alert manager of and obtain appropriate authorization for any potential changes to project cost, schedule, or scope.
* Organize, coordinate, and facilitate the work of project team(s) and serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects, including recommending project stages and assessing business implications for each stage.
* Monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets, alerting appropriate manager / personnel of any obstacles or potential delays to project timelines, targets, or success; provide corrective action recommendations.
* Coordinate activities for assigned projects that enable goals or objectives to be met within the prescribed time and funding parameters, escalating concerns to appropriate manager / personnel.
* Collaborate with managers and internal stakeholders to facilitate the tasks and activities of project team(s) and to properly understand related business needs, dependencies on other initiatives, and how best to effectively deploy end products.
* Address and navigate politically sensitive issues in a co
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