Project/Program Manager III

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionOverview TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. We are a community of 50 million who think-and feel-differently about investing. Together, we're changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping investors achieve their goals has been our main reason for existence. At Client, we're built differently. Our client is investor-owned, meaning that we're owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients. Therefore, your success adds to ours, so you're surrounded by people who care about the same things. With no other parties to answer to, we make decisions-including keeping investing costs as low as possible-with your needs in mind. Because of our unique structure, your goals align with our goals. Position: Project/Program Manager IIILocation: Seattle, WA 98101Duration: 8 Months Job Type: Contract Work Type: OnsiteJob Description:

• 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.

Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects: Business Group:

• Smaller global team that manages programmatic design change management
• Team takes requests for teams who want to change some element from data centers, vet those from a technical perspective, ensure change makes sense from business perspective, integrated technically across disciples in the design, push it out to active data center design portfolio that they are managing.
• Work in APAC, EMEA, ETC
• Basis of design for data center, site adapt it at.
• TIDUS machine learning, liquid cooling, etc. The number of changes has overtaxed the team.

Key Projects:

• Going to assign specific global programmatic design changes depending on when they start.
• Some will also depend on skillset being brought to the table

Reason for requests:

• Scale to meet machine learning business objectives (AWS) that team cannot keep up with the number of requests they are receiving
• Based on machine learning and TIDUS data center workload

Typical Day in the Role: Day to Day:

• Assigned multiple programmatic design changes that they will be responsible for.
• Ensuring cross functional stakeholder alignment of the change
• Evaluating the technical readiness of the change
• Communicating with leadership within the business
• General maintenance of PCM tools that they use to track their programs.

Interaction level with team:

• Daily with HM, weekly stand up with entire team, multiple sync meetings with groups throughout the week, daily stand-up call for initiative that team is all a part of.
• Effectively interacting every single day

Candidate Requirements: Leadership principle:

• Are right a lot (instincts)
• Earns trust

YOE:

• 5-7 YOE

Degree/certs:

• Engineering Degree

Resume stand out:

• Professional engineering license
• Program manager
• Relevant size scope similar to data centers (large construction, not looking for residential, fairly good mix in resume)
• PMP, PE
• MASTERS DEGREE
• Project management certification, engineering degree
• Need to

Good:

• Has engineering degree, has some experience

Performance indicators:

• Microsoft office
• OPEN TO CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Top 3 must-have hard skills

• Construction engineering (in the field) with a degree
• Smart sheets experience
• 5-7 YOE

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