Location: Richland, Washington or Remote
Title: Project Manager III
Schedule (FT/PT): Regular Full Time
Travel Required: No
Clearance: Ability to Obtain
North Wind Solutions is a Government contracting small business with operations at military and civilian installations across the United States. The company’s focus is facilities operation and maintenance, waste management and radiological services, security control and force protection, and environmental services.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• BA/BS in an IT-related field OR combination of education and work experience
• Minimum of 5 years IT-related experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of IT project management experience.
• Minimum of 2 years working in an Agile development environment

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• You have proven strong organizational and leadership skills to manage large high-profile projects or processes under tight deadlines with very limited 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 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

Special Requirements:

• Must pass pre-employment background check
• Must pass pre-employment drug screening
• Applicants are required to have REAL ID ACT compliant documentation at time of hire and nothing on record that would prohibit you from gaining access to Department of Energy sites

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in the project management and implementation of Enterprise-wide applications & systems.
• Experience with Software/IT life cycles (SDLC). SDLC knowledge should include both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps and/or other Agile methodology organization tools such as Jira, Asana, or Trello.
• Experience with or understanding of how websites, web applications, databases, servers (web, application, and database), cloud-based solutions, Microsoft Windows applications, and general business process flows function in order to facilitate successful IT projects.

POSITION PURPOSE:

North Wind Solutions (NWSOL) is a government contracting small business with operations at military and civilian installations across the United States. The Richland site project’s primary focus is providing mission critical support for the Hanford site in the areas of Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure deployment and management to include network operations, End User Support services, Application Engineering with emphasis on software development and support, Records Management, and Project Management for the execution across the spectrum of provided services.
The Project Management organization is primarily responsible for the management of hundreds of software application projects at the Hanford Site. The North Winds team is in the midst of a major modernization effort towards a more agile methodology. In this phase of the transformation, project managers are responsible to ensure we maintain current software development processes while assisting and encouraging the implementation of new, agile processes alongside them.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position will lead cross organizational teams, providing project management support on multiple small, mid-level, and enterprise level software projects simultaneously with very limited oversight from management. Software project support includes the assessment, maintenance, documentation, modernization, testing, and implementation for both custom applications and Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) products.
The IT project manager is responsible for supporting strategic initiatives at the Hanford site which will include; defining tasks and timelines, coordinating across departments, managing budgets, and ensuring timely delivery. The 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: