Project Manager

GAMUDA BERHAD; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in Petaling Jaya is seeking an experienced Project Manager to manage IT projects effectively. The role includes planning, executing, and overseeing projects while ensuring compliance with stakeholder requirements and project budgets. Ideal candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in project management, strong communication skills, and relevant educational qualifications. Familiarity with project management tools is essential. The company offers competitive compensation and the chance to work on impactful projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience as project leader.
• PMP or Prince2 certification is an added advantage.
• Business analytics skills are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage IT projects, ensuring compliance with objectives.
• Liaise with stakeholders for project requirements.
• Develop and update project management plans.
• Establish communication plans and provide updates.
• Hire and manage project teams.

Skills

Project and process management

Strong written and verbal communication

Ability to create project plans

Proficient with project management tools

Leadership

Team player

Negotiation skills

Detail-oriented

Goal-setting capability

Adaptability

Education

Degree in engineering, architecture, quantity survey, IT, or computer science

Tools

Microsoft Project

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Primavera

Bentley

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for an energetic individual with leadership skills to join our company as a Project Manager. The project manager job function is to deliver value from the project to its stakeholder, meeting the scope, meeting the time frame, and staying within the budget allocated for the project.

Key Responsibilities

General

• Plan, establish, and manage information technology (IT) projects and serve as a liaison between the business and technical aspects of assigned projects.
• Track project performance periodically to ensure both short‑term and long‑term goals are met.
• Ensure compliance with objectives, organizational policies, procedures and standards.
• Ensure project complies with best practices and SOPs.
• Break goals down into bite‑size pieces.
• Product and services evaluation.
• Contract management.

Stakeholder management

• Liaise with stakeholders such as project personnel, vendors and end‑users regarding project requirements.
• Team management.
• Create and maintain the stakeholder register.

Scope management

• Create and maintain the project management plan.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables.
• Implement changes where necessary.

Cost management

• Develop the project cost plan and make changes based on approved change requests.
• Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions.

Time management

• Develop the project schedule and make changes based on approved change requests.
• Set and track project milestones; manage and account for unforeseen delays, then realign schedules and expectations as needed.
• Prepare and update the project milestone chart.

Communication

• Establish and implement project communication plans, providing status updates to affected stakeholders.
• Collect, analyse and summarise information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.
• Compile project reports and inform management regarding problems.

HR

• Identify project resource skillset.
• Hire the project team, internally or externally.
• Provide training (if required).
• Monitor resources performance.

Risk

• Undertake risk management to minimise potential risks.
• Develop and update the risk register as and when required.

Documentation

• Implement document control policies and documentation templates.
• Create and maintain detailed project documentation including the project management plan, communication plan, cost plan, project schedule, issue log, procurement tracking document and risk register.

Qualifications

Degree or diploma in engineering, architecture, quantity survey, IT, computer science or related discipline.

Skills & Abilities

• Proven project and process management skillset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to draw up detailed project plan, project schedule and communication plan.
• Ability to utilise project management tools such as stakeholder register, cost plan, time plan, issue log and risk register.
• Experience using Microsoft Project or other project management software.
• Creative mindset.
• Ability to make complex decisions.
• Leadership.
• Team player.
• Negotiation skill.
• Organisation and analytics skill.
• Goal‑setting capability.
• Adaptability.
• Road‑map oriented.
• Detail‑oriented.

Expected Minimum Years of Experience

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience as project leader.
• Proven project and process management skillset.
• Added advantage: PMP or Prince2 certified.
• Business analytics skillset.
• Knowledge in change management.
• Both IT and business architecture design skillset.
• Software development full cycle.
• Knowledge of Autodesk Construction Cloud, Primavera and Bentley.