Senior Project Manager : GIS Implementation

TEEMA; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm in Calgary is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to oversee GIS Implementation projects. The ideal candidate will possess strong project planning, stakeholder management, and GIS expertise. Responsibilities include managing project budgets, ensuring adherence to scope and schedule, and effectively communicating with stakeholders. This role demands a proactive approach to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing projects based on approved scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ability to facilitate discussions with team members.
• Experience in managing project budgets and expenses.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead assigned projects ensuring adherence to scope and budget.
• Ensure project decisions are documented and deliverables are stored.
• Communicate relevant project information to stakeholders.

Skills

GIS Implementation experience

Stakeholder management

Project planning skills

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager : GIS Implementation
Location: Calgary, Alberta

What you will be doing

• Managing, defining, planning, controlling and leading assigned projects based on the approved scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ensuring adherence to the IT PMO Methodology and the specific Solution Delivery processes and standards.
• Ensuring that project decisions are formally documented, and project deliverables are stored in the official project repository.
• Creating and executing project plans and making revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements of the project.
• Demonstrates good project planning skills including the use of a Gantt plan
  • Knowledge of MS Project is an asset
  • How to manage project timeline gaps and scope gaps
  • Facilitate discussions with team members to develop the plan, planning tasks, estimating, dependencies
• Demonstrates good stakeholder management
  • Ability to facilitate diverse groups to get to decisions
• Identifying resources required and coordinating work of project resources allocated by IT and the Business partners.
• Managing project budget, including tracking, and reporting team hours and expenses as well as forecasting project capital expenditures and operating expenditures where applicable.
• Preparing for stage gate reviews.
• Influencing and engaging all levels of stakeholders from executive leadership to project team members.
• Effectively communicating relevant project information to project stakeholders or steering committee.
• Ensuring that assigned projects are completed on time, on budget, and satisfy the requirements agreed with the client.
• Supporting organizational change as it relates to people, process, and technology.
• Maintain practices and procedures that support enterprise service management, governance, and regulatory processes.

What you must have

• GIS Implementation experience within a relative utility and or aligned industry where heavy utilization of GIS products are leveraged.
• Experienced in fiscal delivery of an in-flight Project within a corporate wide program.
• Experienced in VP, Director communications and cognizant of change management.