Project Management Office

Project Management Office Charter

Reporting to the Director of Institutional Assurance, the Project Management Office is responsible for the disciplined implementation of the Laboratory’s proposal, project and quality processes. Specific responsibilities include:

• Develops and maintains LBNL-specific training, PM and QA procedures, policies and standards, and control and assessment techniques.

• Develops and maintains lessons-learned procedures that integrate with the Lab’s single lessons-learned database.

• Initiates and/or conducts project vetting and technical reviews.

• Conducts monthly status updates for significant projects across the entire breadth of the Laboratory. Topics covered include cost, schedule and risk status, EH&S, and management issues. The focus is predominately on the surfacing and discussion of the problems and issues about which LBNL management should be aware.

• Briefs senior Laboratory management on the status of selected projects.

• Maintains roster of LBNL project management personnel (project managers, project controls specialists, project administrators, etc.) and their specialties

• Responsible for the LBNL Earned Value Management System (EVMS) implementation, maintenance, and certification status.

• Develops and maintains database of LBNL projects and historical project information.

• Advises Laboratory Management on project management policy issues.        

In conformance with LBNL strategic goals and DOE contract requirements, the Laboratory Project Management Officer manages the Project Management Office and

• works with LBNL Divisions’ staff and institutional resources (space/site planners, project managers, architect/engineers, etc.) to ensure that all Laboratory proposals are fully credible (from a business sense), include realistic scope, budget, schedule, and risk data, and are properly sited.
• works with Laboratory leadership, the Director of the Planning and Strategic Development Office (PSD), and the Facilities Division, to construct a comprehensive plan of long term capital investments and strategic resource utilization.provides strategic management of the annual ‘Call’ process, and works with the PSD and Facilities planners on land-use issues and overall space utilization.