Project Manager III

CenturyLink

(Herndon, Virginia)

Job Posting Details

About CenturyLink

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network and data systems management, Big Data analytics and IT consulting, and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The company provides broadband,voice, video, data and managed services over a robust 250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network.

Responsibilities

Develops, maintains and modifies project schedules and the integration of multiple project schedules into an overall master program schedule.

Ideal Candidate

* Candidate must provide hands-on development of layered schedules that address how a project is progressing and how the project contributes to overarching requirements and objectives while maintaining status on linkages and dependencies with related projects.
*  Must provide weekly updates to the schedule; manage all schedule elements inclusive of the critical path, cross project dependencies, schedule slack, task status, progression, etc. 
*  Will be required to assist in the facilitation of project meetings, provide communication in the form of announcements, guidance and direction.
*   Functional lead over other project managers; responsible for work assignments only – no administrative/managerial responsibilities. 
*   Works with other project managers to develop and track schedule related action items and engages with individual program level action owners until the action item is closed with appropriate resolution. 
*   Engages with project managers to provide quality control of the schedule and coordinate the conjunctive or dependent activities.* Minimum Education Level: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or other related field
* Minimum Years of Experience: 3-5 years of applicable experience in program environment
* Microsoft (MS) Project Experience: minimum of 5 years of MS Project including developing resource loaded and complex schedules.
* Microsoft Office: Proficient in Outlook, Work, Excel, and PowerPoint
* Project Management Professional (PMP) certification recommended.
* Earned Value Management (EVM) experience 
* This position requires the ability to receive a Top Secret/SCI clearance. 0-10% travel may be required. 
* Candidate must be an effective communicator in order to effectively facilitate cross functional meetings, as well as to structure, execute, and disposition day-to-day programmatic issues. 
* Candidate must possess strong organization skills, set clear meeting objectives, creation and management of agendas, and communicate after action items. 
* Candidate must also display the ability to solve problems quickly and to identify and quickly resolve complex issues.recommended.

Candidate must provide hands-on development of layered schedules that address how a project is progressing and how the project contributes to overarching requirements and objectives while maintaining status on linkages and dependencies with related projects.
Must provide weekly updates to the schedule; manage all schedule elements inclusive of the critical path, cross project dependencies, schedule slack, task status, progression, etc.
Will be required to assist in the facilitation of project meetings, provide communication in the form of announcements, guidance and direction.
Functional lead over other project managers; responsible for work assignments only – no administrative/managerial responsibilities.
Works with other project managers to develop and track schedule related action items and engages with individual program level action owners until the action item is closed with appropriate resolution.
Engages with project managers to provide quality control of the schedule and coordinate the conjunctive or dependent activities.* Minimum Education Level: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or other related field
Minimum Years of Experience: 3-5 years of applicable experience in program environment
Microsoft (MS) Project Experience: minimum of 5 years of MS Project including developing resource loaded and complex schedules.
Microsoft Office: Proficient in Outlook, Work, Excel, and PowerPoint
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification recommended.
Earned Value Management (EVM) experience
This position requires the ability to receive a Top Secret/SCI clearance. 0-10% travel may be required.
Candidate must be an effective communicator in order to effectively facilitate cross functional meetings, as well as to structure, execute, and disposition day-to-day programmatic issues.
Candidate must possess strong organization skills, set clear meeting objectives, creation and management of agendas, and communicate after action items.
Candidate must also display the ability to solve problems quickly and to identify and quickly resolve complex issues.recommended.