PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Project Management Specialist 4, in Seattle, WA. Job ID#215002
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and oversee projects from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and budget. The Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage resources, mitigate risks, and communicate effectively with stakeholders to achieve project objectives aligned with organizational goals.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead end-to-end project management for complex, multi-disciplinary programs by developing, executing, and governing integrated plans and schedules aligned with recognized project management standards and enterprise program management frameworks.
• Serve as the program's schedule and planning authority: create and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), subordinate schedules, schedule logic, and schedule baselines; ensure alignment with program scope, cost, and risk posture.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into documented project objectives, milestones, deliverables (CDRLs), acceptance criteria, and measurable success metrics; maintain a stakeholder matrix and RACI for schedule-driven activities.
• Lead schedule-centric governance: establish change control processes, baseline management procedures, approval thresholds, and reporting cadences to ensure configuration management and traceable decision history.
• Drive schedule risk analysis and mitigation: perform critical path analysis, resource leveling, float management, schedule compression (crash/fast-track), and probabilistic risk assessments; maintain issue logs and mitigation action plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional planning with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, suppliers, and IPTs to capture lead-time requirements, constraints, and dependencies; negotiate commitments and escalate conflicts to program governance boards.
• Provide actionable program reporting for leadership: schedule health indicators, critical path changes, variance analysis, near-term lookahead, and recommended corrective actions
Education / Experience:
Bachelor's degree and typically 10 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 8 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.