Senior Project Manager

Q-Free; Tennessee; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible benefits

Company-paid life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Job summary

A leading transportation management company in Tennessee is looking for a Senior Project Manager to oversee project teams, manage client relations, and ensure project success. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, with over five years in project management and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Responsibilities include planning, monitoring project performance, and leading Agile processes. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience working in an Agile development environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with the full software development lifecycle.
• 5+ years of experience in Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• PMP Certification and CSM certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage project teams and ensure project objectives are met.
• Develop and maintain project management plans and schedules.
• Organize Scrum activities and keep stakeholders informed.
• Maintain project status forms for communication with stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Client relations

Agile development

Document control

Analytical skills

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Java programming

Job description

Q-Free is the prime mover in the world of smart, safe, and sustainable transportation management. Our intelligent traffic management solution makes it easier for towns and cities to create safer, less congested traffic networks while addressing the needs of a variety of travelers.

Our Team is looking for a Senior Project Manager who has strong skills in client relations and project management. If you strive for excellence, are passionate about your work, have innovative ideas, and enjoy collaborating within a team, we want to hear from you!

• Responsible for managing project teams and/or multiple project teams
• Responsible for planning, monitoring and reporting ensuring that projects meets agreed thresholds and objectives
• Responsible for the performance of the project, including financials, schedule and quality

Scope management

• Establish and maintain scope of work definition for project in accordance to contract

Planning

• Develop and maintain project management plans
• Develop and maintain project schedules
• Create and maintain project budgets/estimates
• Create and Manage Risk Management Plans
• Create and update Risk register and Risk mitigation plans/actions.

Quality

• Plan and follow up for project to meet defined quality requirements.
• Understand and perform document control functions for all project files that adhere to the Q-Free PMO standards.
• Work closely with development, testing, and accounting to ensure that all divisions/groups have full project awareness for the appropriate PMO protocols to be supported.
• Manuals, Release notes, and training documents are all in sync before customer delivery.
• Organize, facilitate, and record all Scrum activities (e.g., planning, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives) and keep stakeholders informed on the team’s progress.
• Lead requirements gathering/tracking process, orchestrate design stage meetings, manage scope creep, assist with managing UAT, documentation and deployments

Resource management

• Perform resource planning/forecasting
• Coordinating day-to-day project tasks
• Work with Engineering to resolve resource and delivery issues/conflicts
• Manage client in all aspects
• Attend and coordinate customer meetings, follow up on customers
• Recognize and follow up on opportunities for potential new tasks/functionality that the customer could benefit from
• Work closely with Business Development for new business
• Perform product demos to clients
• Develop proposals, contracts, sub-consultant agreements, task orders, statement of work
• Complete, review and approve customer status reports, and customer invoicing.

Communication/reporting

• Maintain/communicate overall and individual project status forms to communicate to the other groups, customer, and third-party consultants; manage all communications to stakeholders
• Maintain high level project status form for management reporting
• Participate in proposal for project management activities including writing.

Your Experience and Knowledge

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Traffic, Civil, Transportation, or Electrical) or Computer Science
• 2+ years of experience working in an Agile development environment.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivering all phases of a IT project
• 3+ years of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Operation Management methodology
• 5+ years of Intelligent Transportation Systems experience
• PMP Certification
• CSM certification is a plus
• Experience with scoping, planning and leading multi‑phase multi‑million dollar projects
• Ability to lead the teams of 5+ developers, full team size of 8+ people
• Analytical skills for problem solving issues
• Exceptional organization skills
• Effective communication skills, written and oral
• Experience with Java programming a plus
• Understanding of business development/marketing practices

Q-Free America ensures our employees are happy and healthy. Our dynamic and comprehensive benefits package allows our employees to take care of themselves and their families. Our benefits package includes, but is not limited to – health, vision, dental, 401(k) plan, EAP, flexible benefits; also, company‑paid life, short‑term and long‑term disability!

Q-Free proudly celebrates diversity in our employees.

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