Project Manager III

Engineering Excellence Incorporated; Blue Ash (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Engineering Excellence Incorporated in Blue Ash, OH is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive IT initiatives from concept through closure, collaborating with technical resources and business partners. The PM will manage scope, schedule, and budget while removing blockers and maintaining stakeholder alignment, using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and other methodologies as appropriate.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of PM experience, a Bachelor's degree, and strong communication skills to

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of PM experience in an IT organization.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with PMO standards and best practices.
• Experience across the SDLC and delivering on deadlines.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and drive projects with top-down oversight through execution.
• Ensure adherence to scope, budget, and timeline.
• Lead projects using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other methodologies.
• Define the scope with senior management and partners.
• Create documents: Project Charter, Business Case, Risk Assessments, Status Reports.
• Determine objectives and measures for project success.
• Facilitate planning, standups, reviews, and lessons learned.
• Resolve impediments and keep teams on task.
• Build relationships with customers, sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate deployment planning and handoffs to operations.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Multitasking

SDLC knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Welcome!

The Project Manager (PM) works collaboratively on projects of varying sizes and complexity. Most projects will require working closely with technical resources and business partners. This role will be engaged during the project process from conception to closure and hand-off to operations. The PM will create and foster lasting positive vendor and customer relationships and expected to work with a cross-functional team consisting of team members from multiple organizations. In this role, the PM must keep the team engaged and focused, remove blockers, and maintain the project schedule, scope and budget.

A person who will be successful in this role will need to be organized, adaptable, and self-motivated. They must be perceptive and able to discern project and task priority with little direction. This person must be able to lead and keep the team on task. Lastly, the ability to quickly understand our business and apply critical thinking skills to the job responsibilities will be very important to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and drive projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to
• ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline
• Manage projects in multiple methodologies, standards and tools utilizing Agile, Scrum,
• Waterfall, and adaptive methodologies according to individual project guidelines
• Define the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management, business
• groups, internal and external business partners, vendors and customers
• Create effective Project Documents including, but not limited to, Project Charter,
• Business Case, Risk Assessments, Status Report, Schedule, Risk & Issues, resource
• demand, and costing information if applicable
• Determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated at its
• completion, including deliverable tracking and benefit realization
• Execute the project according to the project plan, milestones, sprints and/or schedule.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, detailed project task assignments, daily standup meetings if required, reviews, project team meetings, lessons learned, and
• deployment planning
• Monitor the progress of the project and adjust as necessary to ensure the successful
• completion of the project
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of
• the team to deliver their assigned tasks
• Resolve project conflict by facilitated discussion to determine mitigation strategies
• Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders, product owners including
• appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers/stakeholders/product
• owners/sponsors
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best
• practices
• Manage project team to the established policies and practices of the organization
• Additional duties as assigned by PMO Manager

Required Qualifications

• Must have at least 4 years of experience working as a Project Manager in an IT organization,
• managing projects with technical and business teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong support and knowledge of PMO standards and best practices
• Experience working across the SDLC
• Demonstrated ability to complete work to deadlines
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum Experience: 4+ years
• Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

The job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of Engineering Excellence.

Engineering Excellence is committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request an accommodation, please email [e-mail]