Senior Project Management Specialist

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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 standards.
• Leads studies/analysis (trend, variance, impact), reports, risk assessments and planning efforts to determine impacts, constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, and program initiatives.
• Identifies risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case.
• Develops and establishes lead time requirements.
• 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.
• Directs all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion.
• Coordinates commitments with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill strategies.

Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience in managing project schedules and managing programs and projects.
• More than 3 years of experience managing projects and utilizing standard project management tools.
• More than 5 years of experience using Microsoft Project.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• More than 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• More than 3 years of experience in a leadership role, leading teams or projects to successful completion.
• More than 3 years of experience with critical business and financial acumen including risk, issue and opportunity management to drive performance.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Experience developing and managing strong relationships with partners (internal & external) and government customers and representatives.

Qualifications

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g., Bachelor) and typically 10 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g., Master+8 years' related work experience).

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligibility to enroll in a variety of benefit programs including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid/unpaid time off.
• Summary pay range: $107,950 - $133,350.