Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers sellers and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.
Job Title: Project/Program Manager I
Location: Bellevue WA 98004
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
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Responsible for the coordination and completion of project/program.
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Oversees all aspects of projects/program.
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Sets deadlines assigns responsibilities and monitors and summarizes progress of project/program.
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Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project/program.
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May require a bachelors degree and at least 7 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
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Familiar with a variety of the fields concepts practices and procedures.
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Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
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Performs a variety of tasks.
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Leads and directs the work of others.
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A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
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Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects:
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Work independently with internal and external teams to successfully manage the lifecycle of the challenging projects and act as owner in delivering on projects objectives and targets.
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Projects may span organizations or geographies in support of business objectives.
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Actively participate in firm engineering reviews and make tangible impact on the proposed solutions on an individual system or its components on the overall systems architecture and on facility processes.
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Partner with internal teams stakeholders and external vendors to set project priorities establish milestones and drive schedules to meet deadlines.
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Proactively assess stakeholders dependencies and milestones problem-solve and drive solutions to mitigate the impact from the issues.
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Lead and coordinate all execution efforts in delivering systems and automated equipment designs per established standards and guidelines.
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Perform equipment/systems installation throughput and safety qualifications. Simplify optimize remove bottlenecks and provide feedback while resolving difficult system problems or technical deficiencies.
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Lead effective meetings by setting the objectives putting the right people in the room and driving detailed business and technical discussions/alignment. Document meetings discussions decisions and future steps ensuring alignment on expectations with internal partner teams and outside vendors.
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Promptly and accurately communicate project status risk analysis and risk mitigation plans.
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Effectively answer project questions in detail and regularly produce clear and concise summaries for the projects to leadership/management team.
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Competently articulate system and/or equipment designs including layouts technical specifications and functional capabilities to internal customers and partner teams.
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Efficiently manage change order controls purchase orders and invoice validation/approvals.
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Excel at building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across multiple projects
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Identify and lead process improvement initiatives that improve the Engineering and cross-teams efficiencies optimizing the teams value and delivery. Through collaboration generate high-quality cost-effective solutions in compressed periods of time.
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Travel up to 80% domestically although travel intensity can be variable and consist of up to three weeks in a row including weekends.
Typical Day in the Role:
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You are managing quality of implementation through multiple projects that can vary in scope complexity and duration.
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Daily tasks may comprise of site coordination with operations teams and contractors on project execution activities or changes; deep diving project progress schedule and resources while identifying barriers creating solutions and driving resolutions.
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You may be facilitating the planning and/or implementation meetings with projects stakeholders ensuring alignment in objectives expectations and the next steps; you would capture and publish detailed notes after each meeting to drive ownership and follow-through on the actions and decisions.
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Reviewing/approving audit mechanisms and documentation is one of the essential tasks and you may be tracking the programmatic week on week installation opportunities with the internal automation teams.
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You may be brainstorming and developing workaround solutions while mitigating the project delays or design issues.
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As a part of the acceptance testing you may be performing systems installation quality safety throughput and performance qualifications frequently communicating the progress to internal and external stakeholders.
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In addition you may be supporting/training other engineering team members utilizing the knowledge of Clients safety mechanical electrical and controls installation standard and guidelines.
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In Person travelling to various Delivery stations across North America and handling project deployments.
Candidate Requirements:
Nice to haves:
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A BEST candidate would have:6 years of Engineering experience with Minimum Bachelors Degree in Engineering or relevant field with experience in leading large scale enterprise level systems integration implementation and deployment of projects at scale.
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Someone who has managed complex deployment scope end to end.
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An AVERAGE candidate might have 3-4 years of Engineering experience with Minimum bachelors degree in engineering or relevant field but limited or no experience in leading large-scale systems integration implementation and deployment of projects at scale.
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Resumes that done demonstrate managing complex deployment scope end to end.
Leadership Principles:
Performance indicators:
Top 3 must-have hard skills:
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Project & Stakeholder Management - expertise with ability to lead large scale deployments end to end and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders at scale.
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Experience with leading projects programs or initiatives with continually increasing scope and impact.
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Experience managing the lifecycle of cross-functional projects implementing automated equipment and/or integrated systems.
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Experience with CAD software (AutoCAD REVIT BIM 360 etc.).
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.