Senior Project Manager

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Responsibilities:

• Assemble and lead project based teams to successfully execute assigned projects and facilitate collaboration across departments
• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment ensuring a project is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
• Meet with internal and external customers to clarify specific requirements of each project
• Develop project scopes and objectives involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility; determine project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards
• Develop comprehensive project plans
• Determine project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, sequencing project elements
• Determine project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements; assigning personnel to phases and elements; delegating project tasks based on personnel strengths, skill sets, and experience levels
• Measure project performance utilizing appropriate systems, tools, and techniques; maintain project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems
• Meet budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis
• Control project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan and schedule changes; recommend actions; perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Determine applicable project documentation requirements and ensure comprehensive documentation of all aspects of a project
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, senior management, and key stakeholders
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree including a minimum of 7 years of proven work experience in engineering based Project Management

  OR

  Other Technical Degree with a minimum 10 years of proven work experience in engineering based Project Management

• PMP certification
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down business and technology organizations
• Proven ability to work in a fluid environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective; flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Experience with process analysis and improvement
• Demonstrated decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities
• Strong experience presenting to key stakeholders and senior management
• Demonstrated communication skills: both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management
• Technically competent with various engineering based and project management software programs; experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning tool preferred