Title: Construction Program Manager 4Location: Redmond,WAExplain a typical day in the role.: - A typical day will involve driving the operational execution of multiple EOP programs and initiatives, participating in and facilitating a high volume of meetings and working sessions, coordinating across stakeholders, maintaining program governance, and ensuring decisions and commitments translate into action.
- Own the day-to-day operational management of the DCBM AMERS Tools for Success Power App, maintaining it as a reliable source of truth for key resources such as templates, checklists, reports, playbooks, and supporting guidance. Manage resource updates, access needs, requests, and stakeholder feedback.
- Drive assigned programs and initiatives from planning through execution, translating leadership strategy and direction into organized work plans, milestones, actions, and deliverables.
- Own program and initiative governance by maintaining trackers, monitoring progress, following up with accountable owners, identifying gaps, and ensuring commitments are driven to completion.
- Participate in and support a high volume of meetings, working sessions, and program forums across EOP and cross-functional stakeholder groups. Effectively balance meeting commitments with ongoing program management and execution responsibilities.
- Produce timely, high-quality, and accurate meeting notes within 24 hours of assigned meetings.
- Synthesize discussions into clear documentation of key decisions, action items, owners, target dates, risks, dependencies, and unresolved topics.
- Manage the operational rhythm of key meetings and working sessions, including agenda development, stakeholder coordination, facilitation, documentation of decisions and actions, and post-meeting follow-through.
- Drive accountability following meetings and program reviews by translating discussions into clear actions and tracking commitments through completion or appropriate escalation.
- Provide clear program visibility through structured reporting that summarizes progress, accomplishments, upcoming milestones, risks, dependencies, blockers, and decisions needed for EOP leadership.
- Proactively identify and manage program risks, issues, and dependencies, resolving routine blockers where possible and escalating items requiring leadership guidance or decisions.
- Develop high-quality program documentation and communications, including process documentation, runbooks, templates, checklists, status reports, presentations, training materials, and formal communications.
- Partner with the Senior Program Manager to operationalize EOP priorities while independently driving assigned workstreams and maintaining appropriate leadership visibility.
- Coordinate with cross-functional partners and subject matter experts to gather inputs, resolve dependencies, advance deliverables, and drive actions to closure.
- Identify opportunities to improve how work is executed, including simplifying processes, strengthening governance, improving documentation, and increasing consistency across EOP programs and initiatives.
Key ResponsibilitiesProgram and Initiative Execution- Drive assigned programs, initiatives, and workstreams from planning through execution, implementation, and closeout.
- Translate objectives into clear plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, deliverables, and target dates.
- Manage multiple concurrent initiatives and recurring responsibilities while maintaining appropriate prioritization and visibility.
- Establish clear accountability and proactively follow up with owners to ensure commitments and deliverables progress as planned.
- Identify gaps, dependencies, or potential barriers early and take appropriate action to maintain progress.
- Independently investigate questions or ambiguous requirements, gather relevant information, engage appropriate subject matter experts, and develop informed recommendations or
- proposed next steps.
- Support regional and global initiatives, continuous improvement efforts, process standardization, training, and other EOP priorities.
Stakeholder Management and Cross-Functional Coordination- Coordinate across internal teams, subject matter experts, project teams, and other stakeholders to support successful program execution.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships across functions and organizational boundaries.
- Facilitate working sessions, program meetings, reviews, and stakeholder discussions necessary to advance assigned work.
- Clearly communicate objectives, decisions, actions, ownership, and timelines.
- Maintain appropriate visibility with EOP leadership while independently managing day-to-day execution.
- Recognize when an issue can be resolved through normal program management and when leadership alignment, decision-making, or escalation is required.
Governance, Tracking, and Follow-Through- Maintain appropriate program and initiative governance to provide clear visibility into status, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, and decisions.
- Maintain program artifacts such as initiative trackers, action logs, schedules, documentation, status materials, meeting outputs, and supporting resources.
- Ensure actions have clearly identified owners and target dates and remain engaged until commitments are completed or appropriately escalated.
- Support EOP Rhythm of Business activities, including recurring program reviews, stakeholder forums, trainings, workshops, and other governance activities.
- Support consistent adoption and maintenance of EOP processes, templates, tools, and documentation.
- Administrative and coordination activities are expected as part of the role but should serve the broader objective of effective program governance, execution, accountability, and follow-through.
Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management- Proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers that could affect program objectives or delivery.
- Manage routine program risks and blockers by establishing appropriate ownership, next steps, and follow-up.
- Surface material risks or decisions requiring leadership involvement in a timely manner, with sufficient context to support informed decision-making.
- Maintain visibility to open issues and ensure they are tracked through resolution, mitigation, acceptance, or appropriate escalation.
Reporting and Leadership Visibility- Prepare clear, concise, and leadership-ready program reporting.
- Consolidate information across workstreams into meaningful updates covering progress, milestones, accomplishments, risks/blockers, decisions needed, and upcoming actions.
- Provide accurate and timely status information rather than relying solely on individual stakeholder updates.
- Maintain sufficient supporting information and program artifacts to enable effective leadership review and decision-making.
Tools, Documentation, and Operational Excellence- Effectively use M 365 business productivity tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook.
- Learn and effectively use applicable internal tools, trackers, dashboards, SharePoint Lists, Power Apps, repositories, and reporting resources.
- Support tools such as Tools for Success and other EOP resources as part of program execution and governance.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, or improve existing processes and ways of working.
- Support documentation maintenance, lessons learned, best-practice sharing, and continuous improvement activities.
Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of relevant program and/or project management experience.
- Demonstrated experience independently managing multiple concurrent projects, programs, initiatives, or workstreams.
- Demonstrated ability to create and manage project plans, milestones, actions, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder commitments.
- Strong organizational skills with demonstrated attention to detail and follow-through.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information and communicate program status to multiple levels of stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills and demonstrated ability to coordinate and influence across teams without direct authority.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations, investigate unfamiliar topics, and develop informed recommendations or proposed paths forward.
- Ability to independently prioritize work while recognizing when leadership alignment, verification, or escalation is appropriate.
- Strong proficiency with M 365 tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook.
- Ability and willingness to quickly learn new business processes, tools, systems, and organizational structures.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience supporting data center, construction, infrastructure, engineering, integration, or other complex capital-project environments.
- Experience working within a matrixed organization involving multiple functions, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
- Experience supporting process improvement, standardization, operational excellence, change management, or governance initiatives.
- Experience coordinating trainings, workshops, program forums, or other cross-functional working sessions.
- Experience preparing concise program reporting and executive-level status materials.
Knowledge of construction, integration (fiber, telecom, network, equipment, systems and infrastructure) - Data center and construction experience are preferred because they can accelerate understanding of the operating environment; however, deep technical expertise is not required.
- Strong program/project management fundamentals, ownership, judgment, communication, and follow-through are critical to success.
TravelOccasional travel may be required to support workshops, bootcamps, or other program needs.
What is the ideal background of a candidate for this role?: Construction project and program experience.
Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills- Project/program management
- Problem solving
- Drive accountability
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Salary Range: $1,87,000 - 1,97,000 Annually -Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year]. The paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year]
Preferred Skills Strong Communication Strong Communication Strong Communication
Job details Job ID 333361
Role Program Manager
Location Redmond, Washington, US
Job type Direct Hire
Recruiter Tushar
Email tushar.sahoo@ascendion.com
