Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager 2 – Logistics & Supply Chain

Job Number: 11886

Location: Vancouver, WA - Onsite

Overtime: 10%

Travel: Up to 10% for travel to field locations/meetings

Length: 5 years

MUST be US Citizen to be eligible to apply for Federal Background Check

Requires Real ID and or Valid Passport to interview

SUMMARY

The position works closely with the Logistics Manager to develop special projects, and support implementation across organizations. This requires providing support in supply chain strategies, including long range and intermediate planning and development of programs, systems, and work processes, which are necessary to fully implement right-cost solutions. It is essential this position works with all organizations supporting data and industry sources to ensure the viability of these solutions, and recommendations

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Help facilitate and coordinate the completion of training and change management efforts supporting the process changes implementation and adoption.
• Provide project management skills to support project planning and process, providing guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology and best practices
• Investigate ways to integrate project constraints into the business portfolio decision-making process.
• Recommend/request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs.
• Collaborate with business units and corporate performance managers to identify any resource allocation issues and make suggestions to resolve.
• Schedule and lead project team meetings
• Recommend an overall roadmap of efforts required to achieve program initiatives and project objectives.
• Suggest improvement(s) to project expectations, approach, roadmaps, work plans, deliverables, and goals.
• Draft project plans, suggest resource strategies, and help with funding estimates
• Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects
• Organize, coordinate, and help monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets
• Collaborate with corporate manager and internal stakeholders to facilitate the tasks and activities of project team(s) and to properly understand related business needs, dependencies on other initiatives
• Draft and distribute project status reports on a regular basis.
• Maintain consistent communication with project sponsors and clients
• Collaborate and work with project sponsors and corporate performance managers to help identify obstacles and suggest remediation(s) of those obstacles
• Capture project “lessons learned” and provide draft recommendations for appropriate corporate management review
• Monitor and track resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects, as well as compliance-related dependencies.
• Maintain a standard issue, risk, and/or action logs.
• Draft and recommend potential contingency plans to minimize risks
• Communicate regularly with project sponsors, stakeholders, and corporate managers
• Help draft plan for organizational design and change management requirements
• Partner with project teams to enhance and assist corporate management with implementing the asset management lifecycle business model.
• Identify resistance and performance gaps, and help develop corrective actions.
• Perform gap analysis from the “as is” to the “to be” state.
• Provide support in defining appropriate performance metrics and track progress towards targets.
• Facilitate change management methodology and serve as a change management resource for managers
• Provide support and collaborate with front-line managers and supervisors and provide suggestions for staff adoption to a new or revised business model for asset management processes and concepts.
• Help perform data analysis, report building, and system configuration changes.
• Participate in the coordination of asset management and portfolio operations
• Coordinate data gathering requirements, system integration requirements, and planning, tracking, and reporting requirements.
• Help with successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager including any training, documentation, or meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed
• Coordinate and assist corporate management with transitions of identified project resources as needed.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience:

• A degree in business administration or management, organizational development, computer science, or engineering is highly preferred.
• 5 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor’s degree.
• 7 years of experience is required with an applicable associate degree.
• 10 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.

Required Skills & Experience

• MS Project skill including project management features such as: experience with timelines, dependencies, project expectations, milestones, and resources.
• Experience must include direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Previous portfolio management experience in an asset intensive industry.
• Intermediate level proficiency with Visio, Access and SharePoint.
• Proficiency required with Microsoft Office Suite software such as MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook

Preferred Skills & Experience

• PMI or PMP certification.
• Change Management certification.
• Energy and/or utility industry experience.
• Asset Management experience.
• Experience with ISO 55000

Pre-Employment Requirement

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About APR Staffing

APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions and Data Resource Group. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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