Project Manager - Logistics Services

Location: Vancouver, WA - onsite
Overtime: 10 %
Travel: up to 5 % for travel to field locations/meetings
Length: 12 month initial duration – potential for up to 5 years
 

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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

• Recommend/request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs.
• Collaborate with business units and corporate performance managers
• Schedule and lead project team meetings ranging from recurring working meetings to requirements gathering across organizational units to varying levels of program/project management stakeholders
• Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects, including recommending project stages and assessing business potential risks for each stage.
• Organize, coordinate, and help monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets
• Coordinate activities for assigned projects that enable goals or objectives to be accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters
• Collaborate with the 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, and how best to effectively deploy end products.
• Provide background information, technical input, options, and recommendations for project decisions as requested by corporate personnel

• Draft and distribute project status reports 
• Maintain consistent communication with project sponsors, performance managers, and clients 
• Collaborate and work with project sponsors and corporate performance managers to help identify obstacles and suggest remediation(s) 
• Capture project “lessons learned” and provide draft recommendations 

• Provide project risk management assistance

• 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.
• 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 as well as assist corporate management with implementing 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.
• Utilize analytical techniques to decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to resolve solution vs. requirements conflicts.
• Participate in the coordination of asset management and portfolio operations
• Coordinate data gathering requirements, system integration requirements, and planning, tracking, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate and assist 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 Technical Skills & Experience

• MS Project skill including project management features such as: experience with the fundamental operation, function, and workflow of Microsoft Project regarding timelines, dependencies, project expectations, milestones, and resources.
• Previous portfolio management experience, preferably with large capital construction projects 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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