Project Manager, Operations Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

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** Project Manager
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* Location:

** Malmstrom Airforce Base - Great Falls, Montana
** Type:
** Exempt
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* Work Schedule:

** Full-Time
** Compensation:** $56,160 - $60,320
** Benefits:
** Tessera is proud to offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to our eligible part-time and full-time employees.
* Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) retirement plan, Life & Short-Term Disability Insurance
* Flexible Spending Accounts for both medical and dependent care
* 11 paid federal holidays, accrual of 12 paid days of vacation at the start of employment, paid sick leave
* Potential shared earning bonus
* Tuition assistance is available after 1 year of employment and potential scholarships for qualified dependents
* Professional development, certifications, and training opportunities
* Verizon wireless discount
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and an engaging wellness program
* Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility for full-time employees

Tessera is dedicated to “Creating Opportunities for People with Disabilities” by hiring and supporting individuals with disabilities as well as veterans with disabilities. We take pride in our purpose-driven culture, our core values - Inclusion, Partnerships, Integrity - and our commitment to providing a safe
** Typical duties include but are not limited to:
*** Leads the site team, including subcontractors, to deliver outstanding customer results both functionally and contractually. Conduct overall management coordination and be the central point of contact (POC) with the customer for performance of all work under the contract.
* Leads customer engagement and communications. Leverage full team including frontline supervisors, QC, subcontractors and site leadership to maintain performance excellence and solve tough problems as a team in partnership with the customer. Continuously pulses customer stakeholders for improvement input and understands customer’s needs, culture and mission.
* Fully supports Tessera’s mission of Providing Opportunities to People with Disabilities. Actively partners with Tessera’s recruiters, vocational specialists, HR Partners, and Workforce Development teams to attract, retain, and develop a diverse employee workforce.
* Drives a world-class safety management system and safety culture through leadership engagement, safety risk management, safety assurance and safety training and promotion. Model positive safety leadership behaviors.
* Strong employee relations skills including servant leadership. building morale, communication, providing feedback, and conflict resolution. Collaborates closely with human resources and vocational staff. Competent in the timely and effective use of employee relations tools and processes – owns these processes with support from HR (not the other way around). Manages by walking around.
* Mentors, motivates and inspires the leadership team, functional teams, and employees to operate with a “can do, will do” attitude.
* Improves staff knowledge, skills and abilities through targeted recruitment, formal and on-the-job training, coaching, and performance feedback along all aspects of the employee life cycle.
* Leads site’s reliability performance trajectory with goals of achieving core capability at end of year 1 and adding advanced capability starting year 2, based on Tessera’s reliability maturity model.
* Leads the site reliability program to extend asset life and reduce breakdowns. Leverages the entire team to drive an asset ownership culture, expand/improve planned maintenance, leverage predictive tools, and enable key processes such as root cause analysis and preventative maintenance (PM) optimization.
* Possesses strategic vision for the site, the contract and meeting the future needs of the customer. Able to convert this strategy into action through disciplined planning and project management.
* Focused on continual process improvement, “balanced excellence” of site performance metrics, and combatting operational complacency.
* Financial Management – understands profit and loss drivers, always looking at judicious use of Tessera resources and to preserve/improve Tessera’s bottom line. Able to maintain the balance…