23 month Fixed Term Contract
Position Summary
Senior Project Managers have accountability and authority for achieving a project’s objectives. They direct a multi-disciplinary team aiming to complete a project. This position will be in Engineering, focused on the coordination of capital investment to support the ongoing manufacturing expansion.
What you will do
- Lead the team in the development of the project charter and management plan. Direct, manage, monitor, and control project. Evaluate trade-offs within project.
- Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage and own project scope. Create detailed Work Breakdown Structure.
- Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart. Analyse critical path, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones. Own the project schedule.
- Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
- Partner with project team to create project Quality Plans using 2-3 quality planning tools and techniques. Monitor and maintain plans.
- Develop a risk management plan for the project. Identify, analyse, and understand project risks; develop and monitor a risk response plan.
- Develop a Procurement Management Plan and collaborate on the selection of procurement partners.
- Estimate, acquire and assign cross functional project resources. Define the role, responsibility, and deliverables for each team member. Provide direct feedback to functional manager on performance reviews.
- Develop a Stakeholder management plan for the project, based on the identification, analysis and understanding of Stakeholder expectations.
- Develop and execute the communications management plan for project team and the needs of key stakeholders.
What you will need
- Bachelor's Degree in related field,
- PMP or equivalent
- 6+ years of hands-on experience managing projects of increasing complexity required.
- Builds successful working relationships with internal and external personnel in various departments. Understands quality system(s)..
- Adept at team management: selects the right people to the right tasks all while maintain team morale and recognizing contributions.
- Incorporates end-user feedback to refine scope through the project lifecycle and can communicate changes, updates and decisions to key stakeholders
- Can understand and communicate how goals fit into broader organizational goals, and prioritize tasks/schedule accordingly.
- Keeps the customer at the heart of what we do.
- Exercises good judgment and can weigh benefits and risk in order to make solid decisions despite ambiguity.
- Growth mindset – ability to learn quickly and adapt to a changing environment.