Technical Project Manager jobs in United States

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our busy team! Reporting to the Delivery Director, you will lead the management of designated Customer and internal development projects. A key component of your role will be to communicate project progress to the Key Stakeholders and Senior Micro Nav Management in accordance with the requirements of the Project Plan and Contract and to manage Customer project relations throughout the life of the project. The role will require you to lead and deliver projects to approved schedule and budget and to manage bids and tenders across all lines of business.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• To act as Bid Manager for Customer bids and to assist in the creation of a fully developed quotation document and fully costed project model.
• To prepare and present quotation and bid documents, together with costed project models to senior management for review and approval.
• To provide an initial schedule with bid resource estimates to functional heads to enable them to provide accurate, agreed low level schedules in return.
• To project manage allocated projects to time and budget expectations.
• To create a Project Plan including task breakdown, schedule and budget.
• To liaise with the all lines of business to ensure accuracy of the data in the Project Plan and to achieve a smooth transition from Sales to Projects.
• To request internal and external resources as necessary in order to achieve tasks identified as part of a project.
• To maintain the schedule in consultation with the Customer and Micro Nav teams.
• To measure progress against the Project Plan, Schedule and Budget to update as required.
• To obtain formal approval within agreed project criteria for any negative variance to project revenue, profit or schedule.
• To identify project slippages and to develop recovery strategies to allow the planned events to be achieved.
• To identify and manage all project risks and to provide mitigation plans, if necessary, in conjunction with the Customer, and Micro Nav Management.
• To keep all stakeholders aware of any changes to the project timescale and to agree remedial actions.
• Assist the Financial Controller in the management of financial instruments and the timely issue of invoices against agreed project milestones.
  
  

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of tools; Outlook, Word and Excel in particular.
• Proficient with Microsoft Project or a similar project scheduling software application.
• Technical information gathering and analysis skills.
• Strong PC literacy, good overall IT skills and appreciation of common hardware and software products.
• Internet proficient and cyber security aware.
  
  

• Experience/knowledge of project management techniques and methods; knowledge and application of Project Management methodologies and techniques.
• Experience of bid management.
• Basic knowledge of ATC environment is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of (project based) personnel management.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Experience of dealing with internal departments of mixed disciplines and personnel at all levels.