Location: Vancouver, WashingtonType: ContractJob #7218Overview:ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. The Project Manager 2 position will assist the Transmission AM program with improving and managing business process enhancements for Transmission-related programs, projects and program plans, and project portfolio management processes with different supporting tools. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.Pay range: $40.74 - $58.20Benefits:Paid holidays: 11PTO: Starting at 10 daysFederal Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)EAP: Employee Assistance ProgramBenefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, HRA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer (matching up to 4%) contributions)Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks, Cigna offers fitness discounts (gym or home), and a meal kit program for those enrolled in medical insurance.Responsibilities:Help facilitate and coordinate the completion of training and change management efforts supporting process changes, implementation, and adoption.Provide project management skillset to support Transmission's planning and process project, providing guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology and best practices, including:Investigate ways to integrate project constraints into the business portfolio decision-making process.Schedule and lead project team meetings ranging from recurring working meetings to requirements gathering across organizational units to varying levels of program/project management stakeholders.Recommend an overall roadmap of efforts required to achieve program initiatives and project objectives.Recommend improvements to project expectations, approach, roadmaps, work plans, deliverables, and goals.Draft project plans, suggest resource strategies, and help with funding estimates required to advance each assigned project / defined effort.Organize, coordinate, and help monitor the progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets, alerting appropriate the manager/personnel of any obstacles or potential delays to project timelines, targets, or success; provide corrective action recommendations.Draft project status reports on a regular or as-requested basis.Provide project risk management assistance including:Identify potential areas of risk and obtain guidance from the appropriate BPA manager, Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), or Contracting Officer (CO).Monitor and track the resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects, as well as compliance-related dependencies.Maintain a standard issue, risk, and/or action logs.Communicate regularly with project sponsors, stakeholders, and BPA managers to further assignments timely and without delay.Support, draft, and help ensure the following functions:Written communication and draft sponsor communicationProject team communications and coordinationSupport the following deliverables:Scope Definition and ManagementProcess and System Design requirementsCommunication and project management best practice gap analysis.Gather business requirements and needs analysis from various stakeholder perspectives.Perform gap analysis from the "as is" to the "to be" state.Provide support in defining appropriate performance metrics and track progress towards targets.Help perform data analysis, report building and system configuration changes.Utilize analytical techniques to decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to resolve solution vs. requiremen