Duties and Responsibilities
Safety is a primary responsibility in each job performed. Obtain safety training, obey safety rules. and make safety an integral part of each task. Take the necessary steps to stop work if continuing the job is unsafe or will create an unsafe condition.
Manage established project costs, schedule, and technical baselines and provide effective management of project staff and matrixed personnel to control baselines. Establish baseline schedules and costs for the current work year plan, annual operating plan, and five-year budget baseline for assigned projects. Develop Life Cycle scope, cost, and schedule estimates for projects consistent with funding guidance and project scope. Ensure projects are managed with site Project Management Procedures, policies and DOE Order requirements and regulations. Provide concise and accurate oral and written presentations to internal and external customers regarding project implementation plans, status, changes, and new approaches, including complex technical, organizational, and financial issues. Develop innovative alternative strategies enabling the early achievement of milestones. Perform risk analysis and provide decision authority for defining and approving corrective actions and establishing priorities. Manage project efforts to ensure project progress is within schedule, cost technical, environmental, and legal baseline. Ensure timely submission of all required progress and status reports.

Skills:

Problem Solving
Manage problems and issues of extensive complexity within developing processes involving a diverse group of functional participants and stakeholders. Exercise judgement within loosely defined limits. Develop and implement primary and alternative actions with minimal restraints. Negotiate and resolve extremely complex differences among project team members which affect internal and external stakeholders including quality and safety. Resolution efforts necessitate extensive research, knowledge, and innovative approaches. Acquisition, control, and management of project funding is critical to the future of SRS. The successful management of this funding is essential to the continued safety of operations, SRS technical excellence, and implementation of the Site Strategic Plan.

Skills of Persuasion
This manager must be able to develop, document and clearly present project concepts and detailed plans in a manner which gains acceptance and enthusiastic support from multiple SRS divisions, departments, DOE-SR, NNSA, DOE-HQ and other stakeholders. Support DOE-SR / NNSA on obtaining project funding and approval from DOE-HQ for necessary critical decisions, licenses, permits, and approvals from regulatory agencies. This manager must promote teamwork among project participants including external and internal customers, and to be able to resolve conflicts. Must be knowledgeable and strong while employing a high degree of skill, and diplomacy. In all of these interactions, both within PMCS and within the Operating Division, this manager must skillfully persuade all participants to support the matrix arrangement of the Division and the Project Teams to assure success. This manager is the principal site advocate for all assigned projects and must achieve DOE-SR's and DOE-HQ's confidence that the project scope can effectively be executed. To ensure this multi-matrixed organization succeeds, this manager must be skilled in applying team building and partnering techniques to all assigned activities to ensure proper matrix team support of project activities. This manager must have the confidence, patience, and tact to effectively, succinctly, and diplomatically communicate sensitive issues to Site Management, interfacing operating and support divisions, DOE-SR, and the public. Of particular importance is the need to convince or persuade both the supported operating division and DOE of cost, schedule and technical baseline changes required to ensure project technical and financial success. This manager must ensure that for all assigned projects, information that adequately defines the project and those aspects of the project that are crucial to success is appropriately communicated to appropriate regulatory agencies and to the public. This manager must ensure that the project teams put in place the necessary.

Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in a technical or business-related discipline, mastery of governing DOE Orders with emphasis on DOE project management requirements.

Experience/Skills
•A minimum of 9 years of Project related experience with at least 5 years managing personnel.
•Thorough knowledge of Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls and other project related activities, including their inter dependencies.
•Recognized as a leader in Project Management skills, including planning, scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, quality management, scope control, and communication.
•Must be cognizant of similar programs and projects industry wide (with a special emphasis within the DOE complex) and have the ability to network company and industry resources bringing the best technology and solutions for the customer's benefit.
•Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and nontechnical audiences, to work interactively with other division management, and to establish and maintain strong and effective customer relations.
•Ability to build and empower high performance teams that will be proficient in the accomplishment of project scope.
•Ability to understand the larger picture, set and communicate expectations, goals, and objectives such that successful planning is achievable.
•Thorough understanding of business processes related to budgeting, negotiating, fee determination, and cost performance concepts.
•Extensive demonstrated experience, mastery level expertise and performance.
•Must possess Problem Solving Skills
•Must possess Skills of Persuasion