Project Manager

Tundra Talent Community; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A staffing agency is seeking a Project Manager to oversee and coordinate successful infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include managing resources, ensuring project timelines, and driving standardization. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of project management experience. This role involves extensive travel and requires strong organizational skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Manage new and existing programs, successfully delivering projects.
• Own program communication and escalate issues as necessary.
• Responsible for overall project schedule based on milestones.

Skills

Program or project management experience

Process improvement initiatives using data

Experience working cross-functionally

Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps)

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Position: Project Manager

Location: Virtual

Duration: 7 Months

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level

DESCRIPTION

Our client is seeking a Project Manager to oversee and coordinate the execution of successful new build infrastructure and expansion / retrofit projects in our Global engineering services and security (GESS). This individual will lead a team of support personnel and coordinate the resources required to launch new and complex projects with the goals of achieving timelines, staying within budget, and driving standardization within our network. The Project Manager will manage medium to large capital projects with aggressive schedule commitments. The Project Manager will lead and coordinate schedule of multiple vendors at the same time, as well as interface at all levels of the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage new and existing programs, successfully delivering difficult projects and goals across multiple organizations
• Partner with other program managers to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones and drive delivery
• Own program communication, accelerating progress by driving crisp and timely decisions, clearing blockers (path to green), escalating as appropriate
• Influence design and development of strategic processes
• Work with program managers and business leaders to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
• Develop, implement, and govern the execution of all business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of the assigned program, project, or sub-task
• Provide accountability while reporting on status, asking for help, and immediately escalating issues and problems as necessary
• Responsible for overall project schedule that enables the teams to be successful based upon the project milestones and Go-Live
• Position includes travel up to 80% (Nationwide)

A DAY IN THE LIFE

• Monday: Travel to location (Uber, Airport, Rental Car) / 3PL Schedule Review Meeting / Emails / PO Approval / Inventory Tracking
• Tuesday: Stakeholder Weekly Meeting / Site Walk / Budget Report / Meetings / Project Incentive Work
• Wednesday: Safety Walk / Order Review with Procurement / Non-Inventory Review with Site 3PL / Risk Management / PMO Reporting
• Thursday: Travel to home (Uber, Airport, Rental Car) / Emails / Meetings / Invoice Approvals / Risk Review / Safety Reporting
• Friday: Update Project Health Tracker / File Travel expenses / Book Travel 3 Weeks Out / Document Lessons Learned / Team Meeting / One-on-One / Project Meetings / Update Travel Calendar
• This role requires you to have exceptional organizational skills to maintain a work life harmony

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

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