Project Coordinator

Overview:

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. The Project Coordinator 2 will be tasked with project control components such as resource management in Microsoft Project Web Application (PWA) and within Microsoft Project Server, schedule reporting, bundle scheduled maintenance, review and comment on 3rd party schedules, time impact analysis, cost, and resource loading, and regularly performs schedule updates in Microsoft Server. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.

Pay range: $30.46 - $35.85

Benefits:

• Paid holidays: 11
• PTO: Starting at 10 days
• Federal Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
• EAP: Employee Assistance Program
• Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, HRA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer (matching up to 4%) contributions)
• Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks, Cigna offers fitness discounts (gym or home), and a meal kit program for those enrolled in medical insurance.

Responsibilities:

• Communicate clearly and concisely with engineering, construction, contractors, field staff, project staff, and other stakeholders in the Company's Transmission business unit, on a consistent and/or as-needed basis.
• Create/draft, written and verbal sponsor or stakeholder communications throughout the life of the project.
• Manually convert legacy schedules to the current version.
• Develop and maintain earned value analysis.
• Identify and record resources activities/tasks in MSP and develop various reports from Transmission's existing reporting tools.
• Develop and update summary level (roll-ups) as well as detailed schedules according to project requirements.
• Develop and recommend reasonable schedule logic and constraints based on discussions with the project manager, other project coordinators, and/or other teams.
• Develop Gantt charts, resources loaded schedules, 6 weeks look ahead, and milestones schedules as required by the project team and other stakeholders.
• Provide expertise and assistance to Project Managers and Project Coordinators on best practices to integrate schedules and their dependencies. Leverage MS Project timelines, critical path, import/export, reporting, etc. Recommend best practices to the team.
• Understand and monitor the Ready for Intended Use (RIU) dates and report to the PM.
• Monitor project schedules with the use of various or applicable reporting tools.
• Coordinate schedule information/status updates with/from the project team and distribute to team members needing the updated information.

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration or Management, Organizational Development, Computer Science or other related technical discipline is preferred.
• 5 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree.
• 7 years of experience is required with an applicable associate degree.
• 9 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.
• Experience should include direct work experience in project coordination/control capacity, including all aspects of scheduling, schedule management, and scheduling conflict resolutions.
• Demonstrated proficiency using SharePoint, to store, analyze and manipulate data.
• 4 years of Microsoft Project experience.
• Experience in the electric utility industry data.
• Experience managing multiple (or bundled) project schedules.
• Ability to analyze, understand and effectively document technical data.
• Ability to store, manipulate, and organize large numbers of files and folders using Microsoft Windows networks or other document management programs.
• Valid U.S. Driver's License is required.

Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.

Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company.This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.

ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant's race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law.The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.

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