Microsoft Project Planner

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Job description

About the Company and Opportunity:

• Our client is a well-known government contractor with contracts supporting different cabinet departments
• Opportunity to work with highly experienced team
• Our client needs additional support due to the current workload

Microsoft Project Planner

Schedule:

• Our client needs assistance with a project in September 2024.
• Our client anticipates this project will take 40-80 hours total.
• Should be available during Eastern hours Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm , but doesn't have to be a specific schedule. Project must be completed by end of September.

Responsibilities:

• Microsoft Project Planner will be standing up a plan for a big robotics project for the US government
  • One of their major programs is looking to stand up a product line. One of their operations team members is running point on standing it up.
• Microsoft Project Planner will talk to the Operations team and to the Director of Finance to get an understanding of what they're looking for and stand up a MS Project plan. (E.g. this task has to happen before this next thing can start, then start building the project timeline.)
• Microsoft Project Planner might have a day or two of conversations, then our client will need some time before the Microsoft Project Planner can continue.
  • Our client believes there will be an up-front crunch, then a lull, etc. So, one week it might be 15 hours, the next it might be more or less.
  • There may be ad hoc tasks to work on while waiting on our client to follow up after the initial conversations.
• Microsoft Project Planner should be SME who can also do the in-system manipulation to get the schedule going.
• Microsoft Project Planner will be getting information mostly through spreadsheets

Requirements:

• Should have previous experience utilizing MS Project or another planning system
• Ability to put together a plan for the operations team
• Excel: Some analysis needed - interpret the data; but more so an understanding of how to build a project plan, rather than just analyze data.

Personality Fit:

• Good at asking relevant questions, listening to the responses, and developing a plan from what is told to them based on their own expertise in standing up a project plan.
• Driven
• Organized
• Strong attention to detail

Qualified candidates please submit your resume for immediate consideration for this exciting job opportunity!

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