Job ID
Project Manager

Location

805-819
Length of Engagement: 6 month contract

Portland, OR

Must have US Citizenship or permanent resident
No third party submittals
 
Functions:
  • Plan and successfully complete projects of significant size, scope and complexity
  • Establish clear project requirements
  • Develop project plans. Manage the project schedule and work with the project team on a daily and weekly basis to ensure timely, high-quality completion of projects
  • Create cost models, then closely track and manage costs to ensure that projects achieve business goals
  • Analyze resource requirements and work with functional managers to assemble in-house teams as the business requires. Communicate project priorities to functional managers (Engineering, Operations, Purchasing, Technical Services, etc.)
  • Work with functional managers to resolve competing claims on resources. Work in a matrix-management role without directly reporting staff, where functional experts will be managed by their respective managers.
  • Identify contract and temporary resources where appropriate, minimizing impacts to internal departments
  • Manage relationships with partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors
  • Proactively manage risk, changes, and communications to project stakeholders, dealing with roadblocks, dependencies, and conflicting priorities.
  • Report regularly on schedules, expenditures, progress, issues, and opportunities
  • Provide customer feedback to the company and the product development team
  • Strengthen business relationships with customers
  • Work with Sales to manage customer expectations regarding delivery, quality, and functionality, and to overcome customer objections and obstacles
  • Drive to superior customer satisfaction
  • Strong communications skills, both writing and speaking. Ability to clearly communicate project progress and technical details to customers and clearly communicate customer requirements, assumptions and requests to project team members. Must communicate well with peers, managers, and executives. Must communicate well with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong leadership and organizational skills. Ability to motivate a team. Ability to elicit high quality thought and decisions from the project team.
  • Sound skills in project planning, tracking, and control.
  • Sound knowledge of budgeting and financial processes
  • Ability to develop and maintain positive and effective relationships with customers and staff
  • Ability to generate (and elicit) creative solutions to project problems
  • Ability to apply basic risk management concepts and practices
  • Persistence, to follow up project elements and ensure successful completion
  • A proactive, anticipatory approach to problem solving
  • Skill using Microsoft Office and project management software
  • Other duties as assigned.

 Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience: 

  • Minimum of 7 years of project management leadership
  • Project management experience in new product development
  • Technical or project experience in one or more of:
    • Software development (PM experience in this area is especially desired)
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Telecommunications / IT systems engineering and networking
  • Experience managing projects for multiple clients simultaneously
  • Extensive training and/or experience with project management principles, methods, process, and tools
  • Experience maintaining a high level of professionalism and "grace under pressure"
  • Experience driving business with little supervision
  • A track record of delivering on agreed project objectives
  • Experience with project cost estimation
  • Experience with startup environments and "new product introduction" processes
  • Experience creating innovative solutions to product, technical, resource, team and project management challenges
  • Experience "leading a team by example"
  • Strong work ethic - someone who takes great pride in professionalism, responsibility, and proactive problem-solving

Desired Skills, Knowledge and Experience: 

  • Project management experience in delivery of products/services to customers
  • Degree in a relevant technical or business field

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