Senior Project Manager

• Location: Portland, Oregon
• Type: Contract
• Job #7670

Overview:

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work hybrid with our client. The senior project manager will oversee finalizing the preliminary design. This involves collaborating with engineers to solve technical challenges, meeting with various teams to solidify the project schedule, coordinating with contractors to plan outage times, and maintaining a master schedule that integrates all project activities. This full-time position is located in Portland, OR.

Responsibilities:

• Safety - As the leader on multiple teams, your job is to make sure that safety is on everyone's mind. You will need to identify safety risks before each activity and make sure proper tailboards and procedures are followed.
• Project Development - Our job is to lead the preliminary engineering work so we have a clear, final scope that can be handed off to the PMO. In some cases we will lead the land/ROW acquisition (including CPCN) and the permitting (such as ESFC). Being successful requires being able to quickly identify the unknowns of a project and working with Engineering, Property, and Environmental to retain contractors that can focus on a problem to solve.
• Project Management - With the 40+ projects in our pipeline, we lead the project through the initiation phase. This phase can be bumpy with project schedules and costs changing as new information about the project comes forward. You will focus on managing the scope, schedule, risks, and resources to while making sure the needs of the stakeholders are being met.
• Transmission - We are focused on the transmission projects that bring more load to our system. This includes new transmission lines and substations as well as upgrading transmission lines and substations. Projects will range in size from $5 million to $800 million.
• Organization - Can you juggle 15 balls at the same time? If so, this is the job for you! You will regularly use your organization skills to keep track of all the activities on any given project so you know when to follow up with the different resources to stay on track.
• Schedules - Our total load demand is growing rapidly and everyone one of our projects is needed. You will develop and maintain preliminary schedules and refine them every time new information comes in. Your Project Controller will be your constant companion as you tweak and adjust activities and dates until everyone feels you have an executable project.
• Forecasting - Accuracy is important. When we forecast too high, it means other projects can't be started. When we forecast too low, it means we leave money on the table. You will work closely with the Engineering Team and Estimators to refine the scope, develop new estimates and forecast out the cash flow on a monthly and annual basis.

Requirements:

• Degree in engineering, math, or business
• 5-10 or more years of experience in project management, construction, or engineering in the utility industry
• Utilities experience required
• Strong knowledge of schedule management, forecasting, construction, project risk management, project scope control and project communication management
• PMP certificate preferred
• Good communication and ability to run an effective meeting
• Organization skills to develop a schedule that gathers info from multiple parties
• Understanding of utility construction
• Experience with transmission or distribution systems
• Construction background
• Basic understanding of engineering process

Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.

Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.

ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant's race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodation to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.

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