Project Management Specialist 2

PDS Defense, Inc.; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Direct deposit

Career counseling

Job summary

PDS Defense, Inc. in Oklahoma City, OK is seeking a Project Management Specialist 2 to join the program management team.

The role focuses on preparing, coordinating, and maintaining integrated plans and schedules to meet project requirements, while supporting risk assessments and change management activities. Responsibilities include coordinating plan changes, reporting performance variances, and ensuring document control across the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 6+ years related work experience, or
• Master's degree with 4+ years related work experience, or an equivalent combination.
• Experience with program scheduling software is essential (>3 yrs).

Responsibilities

• Prepare, develop, and coordinate integrated plans and schedules.
• Support cross-functional plan integration across functions and partners.
• Assist in change reviews and impacts on baselines.
• Ensure revision control of program plans and documents.
• Support risk and opportunity analysis for schedules.
• Identify downstream impacts and report to leadership.

Skills

Scheduling coordination

Risk analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

OPP

MS Project

Primavera

Open Plan Professional

Milestones Professional

Job description

Engineering

Project Management Specialist 2

Oklahoma City, OK

Job Description

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Project Management Specialist 2, in Oklahoma City, OK. Job ID#226884

Supports preparation, development, coordination, scheduling, and change management activities of maintaining an integrated plan to meet program and/or project requirements in accordance with project management industry standards. Participates in maintaining, analyzing and producing metrics related to plans. Assists more experienced personnel with risk assessments, developing mitigation plan and refining the business case. Develops, collects, organizes and provides data, updates task, to maintain status of programs, schedule, customer and supplier commitments and compliance. Coordinates document work statements and resulting schedules. Identifies and provide reports on performance variances, project status, change information to project team. Communicates plan changes and recovery plans to ensure commitment to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Preparing, developing, and coordinating integrated plans, schedules and schedule-related products to meet program and/or project requirements.
• Supporting the integration of program plans and schedules; horizontally and vertically, across company functional, product groups, suppliers and partners of moderate complexity.
• Participating in the review of proposed changes to the baseline.
• Assisting in review of moderately complex proposed or authorized changes (i.e. work statement, budget, schedule, etc.) for completeness and accuracy and supports the determination of impacts on the affected schedule baselines.
• Ensuring revision control of integrated program plans and schedule documents.
• Supporting schedule related risk and opportunity analysis on moderately complex statements of work and/or assists to identify schedule completeness and ability to execute.
• Supporting resolution of critical path and network logic conflicts.
• Supporting the identification of downstream impacts and report s findings to leadership for re-planning where appropriate.

Bachelor's and typically 6 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Proficient with program scheduling software (e.g. OPP, MS Project, Primavera) >3 yrs

Required Skill Sets

-Open Plan Professional, Microsoft Project Professional, or Milestones Professional (they will require experience with 2 or all of the tools if they cannot use these tools we cannot use them)

-Any candidate with current experience in open plan professional will go to the top of the list

Benefits offered

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.

Position Details

Position Type: Associate - W2

Duration: 26

Shift: 1

Job Requirements

Minimum Security Clearance:

No Clearance

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

EEO and Residency

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

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• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled