IT Project Manager - Manufacturing industry

Pennsylvania  ‐ Onsite
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Description

1 year plus contract for a Sr. Project Manager with experience working in a Manufacturing environment. Preferably in the car/trucking industry.

Duties include:
The Senior Project Manager leads a temporary organization established for the purpose of delivering a unique service, solution, implementation or other result. A project is limited by time and cost. It delivers the agreed result within the defined scope and limitations. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing processes throughout a project.
Projects are typically larger, international, more complex, and more strategic for the Client Group. This requires experience from all of the project management knowledge areas, including: leadership, business domain knowledge and working with stakeholders on a senior management level.
A Senior Project Manager works in the following context:

  • Works in conjunction with the Steering Committee and IT Readiness Forum and Delivery Management Committee where applicable
  • Applies the Client Group Project Control Models
  • Co-operates with all stakeholders to define the scope, goals and deliverables for the project within the framework decided by the DMC/SC
  • Supported by the DMC/SC for the duration of the project as applicable
  • May have deliveries and project resources in different countries, sites or units

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the project delivers in accordance with the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Adhere to project management processes: initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing a project
  • Make decisions within the framework decided by the DMC/SC or the IT Readiness forum as applicable
  • Project Integration Management
  • Project Scope Management
  • Project Time Management, including activity definition, activity duration estimation, activity sequencing, schedule development and control
  • Project Cost Management
  • Project Quality Management
  • Project Human Resources Management
  • Project Communication Management
  • Project Risk Management
  • Project Procurement Management
  • Project Stakeholders Management

Recommended Qualifications

  • Car or Trucking industry Business knowledge
  • Project Time, Cost, Quality, Risk, Scope, Stakeholder, Integration, and Procurement Management
  • Communication skills
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Negotiation skills
  • International experience/Multicultural knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

  • IT Services Process knowledge general
  • Agile
  • CAMP
  • Project Handbook
  • IS-GDP (previous)
  • IS-GDP4IT (previous)
  • MCM
  • Collaboration, general

Education and/or Experience Recommended

  • Provide evidence of experience gained working as Project Manager (minimum of 5 years of experience as PM)
  • Proven experience delivering projects within a manufacturing environment
  • Demonstrate achievement of results (eg Assignment Follow Up (AFU), Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) on or above target. Feedback from project team will also be considered
  • Proven capability managing a project group with 5 or more people
  • Experience from managing projects of 1 to 10 MSEK
  • Proven capability working with stakeholders on 1st and 2nd level management
  • Proven capability applying PM knowledge in project work on D or E level. (Focus on Process and PM Knowledge areas.)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or other relevant experience degree preferred
  • Proven delivery of 80% of the projects without significant deviations (eg 10%) from the agreed upon cost or time per the Project Management Plan
  • Demonstrate ability to adapt to and utilize cultural differences when setting up the project teams and in the project work
  • Project Management Professional Certification recommended
  • Good knowledge of business processes in the area of assignment
  • Proven experience managing projects with IT project control model
  • Achieved experience as entry to the different steps
Start date
ASAP
Duration
1 year +
(extension possible)
From
CRG Inc.
Published at
14.10.2017
Project ID:
1434178
Contract type
Freelance
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