Project Manager 2 (12092)
Portland, Oregon - Added Sep 17th, 2026
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Project Manager 2
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental stewardship, is looking for a Project Manager for their Portland, Oregon location. In this role, you will lead and coordinate business projects supporting customer operations and service delivery. You will partner with business leaders, project teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to develop project plans, coordinate project activities, assess business impacts, and monitor progress to ensure deadlines, standards, and performance goals are successfully achieved.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Pay Range: $55.00 – 60.00 hourly, DOE
Location: Portland, Oregon – ONSITE
Key Responsibilities for Project Manager 2:
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
KG/#14374
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental stewardship, is looking for a Project Manager for their Portland, Oregon location. In this role, you will lead and coordinate business projects supporting customer operations and service delivery. You will partner with business leaders, project teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to develop project plans, coordinate project activities, assess business impacts, and monitor progress to ensure deadlines, standards, and performance goals are successfully achieved.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Pay Range: $55.00 – 60.00 hourly, DOE
Location: Portland, Oregon – ONSITE
Key Responsibilities for Project Manager 2:
- Manage medium-sized business projects from initiation through completion using PMI-based project management methodologies, industry standards, and best practices.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, resource strategies, budgets, funding estimates, milestones, and deliverables.
- Define and manage project scope, assess business impacts, and coordinate approved changes to project cost, schedule, or performance.
- Partner with business and technical teams to understand requirements, dependencies, and implementation needs while serving as a liaison between stakeholders.
- Facilitate project meetings, coordinate cross-functional teams, assign and track action items, and maintain clear communication across project stakeholders.
- Monitor project schedules, budgets, resources, and performance, identifying potential delays, constraints, or issues and recommending corrective actions.
- Proactively identify and manage project risks, maintain risk and issue logs, and develop mitigation and contingency plans.
- Coordinate project resources and identify potential resource allocation challenges to support successful project delivery.
- Prepare project status reports, final reports, lessons learned, and other project documentation for leadership and stakeholder review.
- Maintain accurate project records, schedules, budgets, and workflows within project management systems.
- Support business analysis and change management activities to help ensure successful implementation and adoption of project solutions.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with project sponsors, business leaders, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a closely related field preferred.
- 5+ years of relevant experience with an applicable bachelor’s degree, or 10+ years of equivalent experience without an applicable degree.
- 5+ years of demonstrated project management experience using industry-standard methodologies and tools to manage schedules, dependencies, resources, budgets, deliverables, and project plans.
- 5+ years of experience successfully managing or coordinating multiple projects simultaneously.
- 5+ years of working knowledge of System Life Cycle (SLC) principles.
- Demonstrated experience developing project plans, managing priorities and milestones, and tracking project risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
- Experience with Microsoft Project or similar project management software, including timelines, dependencies, milestones, deliverables, and resource management.
- Experience creating process flows and diagrams using Microsoft Visio or similar tools
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
KG/#14374
Job ID: 14374