Project Manager External 1

Ian Martin Group; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 44,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is seeking a Project Manager External 1 for a Montreal, QC engagement on a 12-month contract. You will support project planning, governance, and stakeholder communication across business, IT, vendors, and external partners.

The role requires maintaining schedules, producing status reports, and applying PMO standards while ensuring delivery quality. Strong collaboration, organization, and reporting skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Foundational project management training (CAPM, PRINCE2) is a plus.
• Experience coordinating across business, IT, vendors, and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Maintain integrated project schedules and detailed work plans under the Senior Project Manager.
• Track tasks, milestones, and resources across workstreams.
• Support scope definition, estimation, sequencing, and delivery activities.
• Monitor progress, identify variances, and escalate concerns promptly.
• Coordinate meetings, capture decisions, distribute minutes, and track actions.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Agile/Scrum

Risk management

MS Office / SharePoint

Education

Bachelor's degree

CAPM / PRINCE2 Foundation

Tools

SharePoint

Jira

Power BI

MS Project

Teamcenter

Job description

Project Manager External 1

• Location: Montreal, QC
• Pay Rate - $37.93/ hour
• Contract Length: 12 Months

We at Raise are hiring a Project Manager External 1 for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now;

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Key Responsibilities

Project Planning and Delivery Support

• Maintain integrated project schedules and detailed work plans under the direction of the Senior Project Manager.
• Track tasks, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource commitments across workstreams.
• Support scope definition, effort estimation, sequencing, and coordination of delivery activities.
• Monitor progress against agreed baselines, identify variances, and **escalate emerging concerns promptly.**
• Coordinate follow-up with workstream leads to maintain momentum and accountability.

Reporting, Governance, and Project Controls

• Prepare accurate status reports, dashboards, governance packs, and management summaries.
• Maintain RAID and decision logs and follow up with owners on mitigation and closure actions.
• Support governance meetings, tollgates, reviews, and audit-ready project documentation.
• Apply PMO standards, quality expectations, and document-control practices consistently.
• Help define and monitor practical project performance indicators.

Coordination and Stakeholder Communication

• Coordinate meetings, workshops, and working sessions across business, IT, vendors, and external partners.
• Prepare agendas, capture decisions and actions, distribute minutes, and track completion.
• Support clear communication among stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Assist with stakeholder readiness, change management, communication, and training coordination activities.
• Build effective working relationships and communicate emerging delivery risks constructively.

Documentation and Continuous Improvement

• Maintain project repositories in SharePoint, PLM360, or other approved collaboration tools.
• Support documentation of requirements, processes, workflows, assumptions, and decisions.
• Improve project templates, trackers, reporting methods, and team ways of working.
• Capture lessons learned and help translate them into practical improvements.

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
• A college diploma or equivalent combination of relevant education and practical project experience may also be considered.
• Foundational project management training or certification, such as CAPM, PRINCE2 Foundation, Agile, or Scrum, is an asset.

Professional Experience

• Approximately 1 to 3 years of experience supporting projects, programs, PMO activities, operations, engineering, IT, manufacturing, or business transformation initiatives. Relevant internships or co-op assignments may be considered as part of this experience.
• Practical experience coordinating meetings, maintaining plans or trackers, preparing status reports, and following up on actions and deliverables.
• Exposure to cross-functional or multi-stakeholder environments, with demonstrated ability to organize information and manage competing priorities.
• Experience supporting enterprise systems, digital transformation, Product Lifecycle Management, ERP, engineering, manufacturing, or data initiatives is an asset.

Required Skills and Capabilities

• Working knowledge of project management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, issue, dependency, and change control.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and written communication skills.
• Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate reports and presentations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to collaborate effectively, take ownership of assigned work, follow through on commitments, and **escalate concerns when needed.**
• Attention to detail, sound judgment, curiosity, and the ability to work in a fast-paced matrix environment.

Preferred Skills and Assets

• Exposure to Teamcenter or another Product Lifecycle Management platform.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery approaches.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, Power BI, or comparable planning and reporting tools.
• Awareness of engineering, manufacturing, service, product data, or digital-thread processes.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams or external delivery partners.

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