Telecom Project Manager

Actalent is currently seeking a qualified Telecommunications Project Manager for a position in Vancouver, WA.

Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, and facilitate transmission projects from inception to conclusion in accordance with BPA and industry project management principles and standards.
• Facilitate complex large‑sized, multi‑year projects that are high visibility to senior management, requiring monthly project status updates.
• Coordinate from the scoping phase through documented close‑out procedures.
• Assist BPA management with implementing project tasks on a daily basis across multiple projects—time, budget, schedule, and quality; provide updates to the BPA manager.
• With BPA manager oversight, coordinate activities for designated projects to achieve goals within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Provide recommendations regarding project expectations, approach, road maps, work plans, deliverables, and goals.
• Collaborate with the BPA manager and internal stakeholders to facilitate tasks and activities of the project team(s) while understanding business needs, dependencies on other initiatives, and deployment requirements.
• Work with BPA managers/personal to resolve conflicting priorities, requirements, and team positions to build consensus among stakeholders and project team members.
• Issue project status reports on a regular basis or as requested.
• Collaborate with the BPA manager to define the frequency and content of status reports from the project team; review and analyze results, troubleshoot concerns, and provide mitigation options.
• For large projects, coordinate and guide other Project Managers managing sub‑projects; draft monthly executive summary reports.
• Interact and collaborate with external stakeholders, often navigating complex business relationships.
• Maintain consistent communication with project sponsors, performance managers, and stakeholders on the progress of the project compared to the work plan.
• Identify and request resources; resolve resource allocation issues; alert BPA staff of any resource allocation issues and recommend solutions.
• Forecast and recommend/request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs; submit requests to appropriate BPA performance managers.
• Alert the BPA manager and obtain authorization for any potential changes to project cost, schedule, or performance.
• Organize, coordinate, and facilitate the work of project teams and serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects, including recommending project stages and assessing business implications.
• Assist the BPA manager in building and coordinating an effective team and provide recommendations for allocating team members to project tasks.
• Support the project team through the project management process (creating and implementing the project management plan); schedule and facilitate team meetings and coordinate activities of sub‑teams.
• Facilitate “kick‑off” meetings with sponsors, stakeholders, and partners and validate approval/buy‑in of project plans and commitment of resources.
• Schedule and facilitate project team meetings and coordinate activities of sub‑teams.
• Draft project plans, resource strategies, and funding estimates required to advance each assigned project or defined effort.
• Monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets; alert appropriate BPA manager/personnel of any obstacles or potential delays and provide corrective action recommendations.
• Participate in monthly group‑level project manager meetings and TIP group‑level project manager meetings.
• Support Transmission managers in planning and building new high‑voltage substations and upgrading existing substations, including:
• Assisting with NEPA review
• Assisting with land rights review
• Assisting with access road planning
• Identifying required equipment for procurement
• Assisting with design and construction activities
• Facilitate the implementation of the project on a daily basis (may include multiple projects) with regard to scope, budget, schedule, and quality; provide updates and findings to the BPA manager.
• Prepare and monitor the budget for the project (monitors project funding and overall budget); provide data to the BPA manager for review and approval; alert the BPA manager of any budget concerns.
• Facilitate and monitor/track project budgets (project funding and overall budget).
• Facilitate project requirements, milestones, and project expectations; monitor the project schedule.
• Allocate time in the project plan for the project team to attend all recommended training.
• Take a proactive stance regarding risk management by alerting the BPA manager to areas of risk; anticipate and identify potential areas of risk and obtain guidance from appropriate BPA manager or Contracting Officer.
• Track, monitor, and facilitate resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects, as well as compliance‑related dependencies; maintain issue, risk, and/or action logs.
• Develop, draft, and recommend contingency plans to minimize or eliminate risks on an ongoing basis for review and approval/acceptance by appropriate BPA manager/personnel.
• Maintain issue, risk, and/or action logs and develop contingency plans and status reports to manage risk.
• Alert the BPA manager of any obstacles or work with the sponsor or performance managers and provide recommendations to remove roadblocks so that the team can complete the project.
• When necessary, obtain authorization for changes to the project scope, cost, schedule, or performance.
• Issue regular status reports, issue final reports or deliverables, generate and act on lessons learned; all final documents will be reviewed and approved by BPA federal staff.
• Conduct project post‑mortems and create a recommendation report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• With approval from the BPA Manager, organize site visits with the project team members, as necessary for the project; most projects will require at least three site visits.

Large projects may require multiple site visits; site visits may require overnight travel.

• Support and facilitate the following functions

• Written and verbal sponsor communication.
• Project team communications and coordination.
• Inter‑project team communications and coordination.
• Team meeting and sponsor meeting management.
• When necessary, facilitate the successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager, including any training, documentation, or meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed on all critical aspects of the work and introduce them to executive sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Provide background information, technical input, options, and recommendations that facilitate project decision‑making; this may include, at management request, arranging, attending and facilitating decision‑making sessions/meetings with BPA management, executives and key stakeholders, including drafting agendas, answering technical questions, and presenting information, options and recommendations for decision‑maker consideration.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or Management, Organization Development, Computer Science or other closely‑related technical field is preferred.
• With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 10 years of experience is required.
• With a Bachelor’s degree not in applicable fields, 12 years of experience is required.
• Without a Bachelor’s degree, 14 years of experience is required.
• Experience should include project management experience on projects relating to some or all the following: Utility Physical Security and Compliance; High Voltage Substation; Telecommunication Systems.
• 5+ years of demonstrated project management experience on projects using industry standard methods and tools for managing schedules, dependencies, resources, funding and developing technical specifications and project plans.
• Experience accurately assessing and estimating project costs.
• Experience writing and understanding functional and technical specifications.
• Experience with developing project schedule timelines to reflect major tasks (planning, design, procurement, construction, testing).
• Experience with Share Point or similar program.
• Experience with Visio or similar program.
• Experience with MS Project
• Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, WA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $64.00 - $69.00/hr.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long‑term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
• Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Vancouver, WA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 17, 2026.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices. com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.

An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates.

AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team.

By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.

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