Project Manager IV- Implementation Lead

Employment for this position is contingent upon approval of contract funding.
Position Overview
The ERP Project Manager leads cross-functional and cross-organizational teams in the planning, execution, and delivery of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) initiatives, including software implementations, upgrades, and modernization efforts. Working with minimal management oversight, this role provides project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions meet business objectives, technical requirements, and organizational standards
Major Activities (Typical Duties/Responsibilities)
The IT Project Manager is responsible for supporting strategic initiatives at the Hanford site, including defining tasks and timelines, coordinating across departments, managing budgets, and ensuring timely delivery. The IT Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of projects, ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, contractual commitments, and goals.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Vendor and Implementor Oversight
Monitor external implementors for compliance with contractual scope, deliverables, schedules, implementation methodologies, and statements of work.
Validate completion of project plans, RAID logs, cutover planning, requirements tracking, testing support, training, and knowledge-transfer activities.
Oversee discovery, design, configuration, testing, and knowledge-transfer activities.
Verify deliverables align with approved scope, methodology, contractual commitments, and organizational standards.
Identify and escalate vendor performance issues, delivery concerns, scope discrepancies, and contractual risks to program, product, contracting, and other appropriate leadership.
Enforce vendor accountability without changing contract scope or formally approving deliverables.
Internal Team and Resource Coordination
Coordinate Technical, DMI, BMS, and IDMS teams to align activities with project scope, schedule, and objectives.
Facilitate alignment on requirements, design decisions, configuration validation, testing, readiness, and implementation activities.
Ensure internal stakeholders understand deliverables, dependencies, deadlines, and resource commitments.
Monitor workloads, forecast resource requirements, identify capacity constraints, and maintain a resource-loaded schedule.
Escalate staffing, prioritization, and resource risks as needed.
Project Planning, Scheduling, and Controls
Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, scope matrices, RAID logs, action logs, and resource plans.
Conduct schedule quality reviews, validate task logic and dependencies, and ensure schedules reflect realistic resource availability and deliverable readiness.
Produce rolling two-to-six-week forecasts.
Assess critical-path impacts and coordinate corrective actions.
Anticipate and manage risks, dependencies, resource needs, key decisions, and schedule impacts.
Governance, Risk, and Decision Management
Establish and facilitate decision-making forums involving leadership, subject-matter experts, delivery partners, and stakeholders.
Identify, track, mitigate, and escalate project risks and issues across vendor and internal teams.
Monitor decision timelines and escalate matters that impede project progress.
Coordinate project status reporting, Steering Committee updates, milestone-readiness reviews, and program-level reporting.
Translate technical and business process issues into clear executive decision requests.
Prepare structured inputs for enterprise and program governance forums.
Support lessons learned, project documentation, knowledge transfer, handoff activities, and formal project closure.
Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
Serve as the primary communication point among implementors, business stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership.
Maintain transparent communication regarding project status, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, milestones, and outcomes.
Facilitate internal and external meetings, document decisions, and track resulting action items.
Prepare and maintain project documentation, communications, and reporting.
Support change-management activities to align vendor deliverables with organizational adoption requirements.
Maintain alignment with product, program, initiative, and executive leadership.
Contractual Alignment and Quality Assurance
Ensure implementors deliver required methodologies, deliverables, and responsibilities defined in statements of work, contracts, and RFP responses.
Monitor dependencies that may affect milestones, deliverables, or contractual obligations.
Define and document acceptance criteria and coordinate deliverable review and validation cycles.
Coordinate internal inspection, validation, and acceptance activities without independently approving or rejecting deliverables.
Escalate contractual, scope, quality, or compliance concerns to the appropriate authorities.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
You are recognized as a subject matter expert (SME) in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
You have proven strong organizational and leadership skills to manage large high-profile projects or processes under tight deadlines with very limited or no oversight from manager.
You are highly self-motivated and self-directed.
You have the vision and mindset to identify, handle, and resolve problems quickly before they become recurring issues.
You are able to build a rapport with stakeholders and senior leadership by actively listening to and understanding their needs and concerns to ensure you can address them effectively.
You are familiar with all aspects of software quality assurance principles. This could include but not limited to ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) standards.
You are able to communicate effectively and work well in teams while continuously learning from peers.
You are able to provide clear, concise, and effective verbal and written communications regularly to ensure that all project stakeholders are informed of project status.
You are able to facilitate all project meetings and create/update/distribute project documentation.
You are able to provide effective leadership to development teams, fellow project managers, and project stakeholders.
You lead with confidence and encourage consensus and collaboration while ensuring key objectives are met.
Physical Abilities
Sufficient fine motor skills for the use of compute

Skills
Project Management, ERP, Documentation

Experience
8+ yrs

Employment type
Active, Full-Time

Work arrangement
Yes