Job Title: Project/Program Manager III
Location: Redmond, WA
Duration: 12 Months
 
The Role

• The Engineering Configuration Management team is responsible for ensuring product integrity, safety, and regulatory compliance though effective change control and configuration management mechanisms.
• The ideal candidate has extensive end-to-end product development experience and is driven to improve cost-effectiveness, quality, and efficiency across all lifecycle phases.
• As a Product/Project Manager you will play a critical role in shaping the infrastructure that supports our mission.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, included engineering, operations, and program leadership to drive product development and manage product configuration data necessary for on orbit mission operations.
• Responsible for the coordination and completion of project/program.
• Oversees all aspects of projects/program.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project/program.
• Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project/program.
• May require a bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Performs a variety of tasks.
• Leads and directs the work of others.
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.

 
Key job responsibilities

• Implement Configuration Data management policies, procedures, and standards.
• Supports preparation, development, coordination, scheduling, and change management activities of maintaining an integrated plan to meet program and/or project requirements in accordance with project management industry standards.
• Establish effective communication with major stakeholders.
• Lead and/or support change control meetings to ensure risks and change impacts are well understood and documented
• Identifies and provide reports on performance variances, project status, change information to project team.
• Reconcile the As-Designed, As-planned, and As-Built configurations and report discrepancy reasons.
• Identify and implement system and process improvements as required to increase efficiency and quality
• Project Manage one or more Product Lifecycle Management transformational projects
• Seek out and identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and which affect multiple teams.
• Define/manage a program portfolio solving problems that target high business impact for the organization and product area.

 
Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

 
Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

 
Daily Schedule:

• Product Dev/NPI/Block Change Strategy
• Change Management tool/mechanism Integrations (TC, MES, Asteria, Etc),
• E2E Change Management mechanisms including Supplier, Customer, In Service Change Management (i.e. Material Obsolescence, Post ship HW/SW modifications, traceability, config management)

 
Years of Experience: 4-5 Years
 
Degree or Certification: N/A PMP preferred
 
Leadership Principle: Customer Obsession, Learn and Be Curious, Dive Deep, Clear communication
 
Must Haves:

• Product Development
• Change management
• Communication skills

 

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $60.00/hr.