Employment for this position is contingent upon approval of contract funding.
Position Overview
The ERP Project Manager leads cross-functional and cross-organizational teams in the planning, execution, and delivery of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) initiatives, including software implementations, upgrades, and modernization efforts. Working with minimal management oversight, this role provides project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions meet business objectives, technical requirements, and organizational standards
Major Activities (Typical Duties/Responsibilities)
The IT Project Manager is responsible for supporting strategic initiatives at the Hanford site, including defining tasks and timelines, coordinating across departments, managing budgets, and ensuring timely delivery. The IT Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of projects, ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, contractual commitments, and goals.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Vendor and Implementor Oversight
- Monitor external implementors for compliance with contractual scope, deliverables, schedules, implementation methodologies, and statements of work.
- Validate completion of project plans, RAID logs, cutover planning, requirements tracking, testing support, training, and knowledge-transfer activities.
- Oversee discovery, design, configuration, testing, and knowledge-transfer activities.
- Verify deliverables align with approved scope, methodology, contractual commitments, and organizational standards.
- Identify and escalate vendor performance issues, delivery concerns, scope discrepancies, and contractual risks to program, product, contracting, and other appropriate leadership.
- Enforce vendor accountability without changing contract scope or formally approving deliverables.
Internal Team and Resource Coordination
- Coordinate Technical, DMI, BMS, and IDMS teams to align activities with project scope, schedule, and objectives.
- Facilitate alignment on requirements, design decisions, configuration validation, testing, readiness, and implementation activities.
- Ensure internal stakeholders understand deliverables, dependencies, deadlines, and resource commitments.
- Monitor workloads, forecast resource requirements, identify capacity constraints, and maintain a resource-loaded schedule.
- Escalate staffing, prioritization, and resource risks as needed.
Project Planning, Scheduling, and Controls
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, scope matrices, RAID logs, action logs, and resource plans.
- Conduct schedule quality reviews, validate task logic and dependencies, and ensure schedules reflect realistic resource availability and deliverable readiness.
- Produce rolling two-to-six-week forecasts.
- Assess critical-path impacts and coordinate corrective actions.
- Anticipate and manage risks, dependencies, resource needs, key decisions, and schedule impacts.
Governance, Risk, and Decision Management
- Establish and facilitate decision-making forums involving leadership, subject-matter experts, delivery partners, and stakeholders.
- Identify, track, mitigate, and escalate project risks and issues across vendor and internal teams.
- Monitor decision timelines and escalate matters that impede project progress.
- Coordinate project status reporting, Steering Committee updates, milestone-readiness reviews, and program-level reporting.
- Translate technical and business process issues into clear executive decision requests.
- Prepare structured inputs for enterprise and program governance forums.
- Support lessons learned, project documentation, knowledge transfer, handoff activities, and formal project closure.
Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the primary communication point among implementors, business stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership.
- Maintain transparent communication regarding project status, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, milestones, and outcomes.
- Facilitate internal and external meetings, document decisions, and track resulting action items.
- Prepare and maintain project documentation, communications, and reporting.
- Support change-management activities to align vendor deliverables with organizational adoption requirements.
- Maintain alignment with product, program, initiative, and executive leadership.
- Contractual Alignment and Quality Assurance
- Ensure implementors deliver required methodologies, deliverables, and responsibilities defined in statements of work, contracts, and RFP responses.
- Monitor dependencies that may affect milestones, deliverables, or contractual obligations.
- Define and document acceptance criteria and coordinate deliverable review and validation cycles.
- Coordinate internal inspection, validation, and acceptance activities without independently approving or rejecting deliverables.
- Escalate contractual, scope, quality, or compliance concerns to the appropriate authorities.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- You are recognized as a subject matter expert (SME) in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
- You have proven strong organizational and leadership skills to manage large high-profile projects or processes under tight deadlines with very limited or no oversight from manager.
- You are highly self-motivated and self-directed.
- You have the vision and mindset to identify, handle, and resolve problems quickly before they become recurring issues.
- You are able to build a rapport with stakeholders and senior leadership by actively listening to and understanding their needs and concerns to ensure you can address them effectively.
- You are familiar with all aspects of software quality assurance principles. This could include but not limited to ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) standards.
- You are able to communicate effectively and work well in teams while continuously learning from peers.
- You are able to provide clear, concise, and effective verbal and written communications regularly to ensure that all project stakeholders are informed of project status.
- You are able to facilitate all project meetings and create/update/distribute project documentation.
- You are able to provide effective leadership to development teams, fellow project managers, and project stakeholders.
- You lead with confidence and encourage consensus and collaboration while ensuring key objectives are met.
Physical Abilities
- Sufficient fine motor skills for the use of computers, calculators with an ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods of time.
- Visual and communications ability adequate to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Ability to kneel, bend and twist at the waist on an occasional basis.
- Ability to reach below shoulder height with regular frequency (desk position) and at or above shoulder height on occasion.
- Ability to push, pull, carry and lift objects weighing up to 10 pounds on a regular basis, and greater weights on an occasional basis.
- Ability to travel by vehicle or aircraft, and ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree and 8 or more years of management experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Must pass pre-employment background check.
- Must pass pre-employment drug screening.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy access authorization (HSPD-12 PIV credential); this requires a successful federal background investigation. Declarations of illegal drug use, including marijuana and cannabis derivatives (regardless of state law), within the last year may affect eligibility.
- Applicants are required to have REAL ID ACT compliant documentation at time of hire and nothing on record that would prohibit you from gaining access to Department of Energy sites.
Preferred Qualifications
- Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience in the project management and implementation of Peoplesoft (ERP) software and OpenText product suite.
- Experience with Software/IT life cycles (SDLC). SDLC knowledge should include both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
- Minimum of 3 years working in an Agile development environment.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps and/or other Agile methodology organization tools such as Jira, Asana, or Trello.
Pay Range: $124,441.00 - $180,842.00
Benefits: OSC Technical Solutions offers excellent benefits for eligible employees. Benefits include paid holidays, paid time off, 401k with employer match, dental, vision, health insurance plans through the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program, as well as life and disability benefits.
OSC Technical Solutions does not discriminate, and the company provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, age, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, handicap or disability, genetics, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. OSC Technical Solutions adheres to all federal, state and local laws regarding equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against you in violation of these laws. OSC Technical Solutions reserves the right to apply CIRI Shareholder preference to qualified Shareholders in employment and advancement opportunities.
OSC Technical Solutions participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
Reasonable Accommodation:
OSC Technical Solutions will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with OSC Global, LLC or any of its subsidiaries, please email recruiting@ciri.com.
Important Employment Notice: Federal Contract & RCW 49.44.240:
Due to our status as a federal contractor operating within the State of Washington, all applicants and employees must adhere to federal law, which classifies cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance.
While Washington State’s RCW 49.44.240 (which generally prohibits employers from discriminating against an applicant based on their lawful use of cannabis off-site and during working hours) is state law, it does not supersede federal requirements.
Zero-Tolerance Policy and Disqualification
- Prohibition: The use, possession, or distribution of cannabis is strictly prohibited for all employees, regardless of state law.
- Testing: Applicants will be subject to pre-employment drug screening that includes testing for cannabis.
- Disqualification: A positive test result for cannabis will result in immediate disqualification from consideration for employment, as mandated by our federal contract obligations.
All applicants must be able to comply with all federal regulations, including those concerning controlled substances, as a condition of employment.
In compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Field Office (HFO) direction, employees issued initial badges on or after September 1st, 2025, are required to obtain and maintain a HSPD-12 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credential. To obtain this credential, new employees must successfully complete and pass a federal background check investigation. This investigation encompasses multiple areas of eligibility and includes a declaration of illegal drug activities, including use, supply, possession, or manufacture within the last year. This includes marijuana and cannabis derivatives, which are still considered illegal under federal law, regardless of state laws.
