Jr. Project Manager

Engineering Industries eXcellence is a dynamic and growing organization, and we are seeking a Jr. Project Manager (3+ YOE) to complement our growing team. As a Project Manager, you will manage one services project or several unrelated services projects driving customers value realization. The projects managed are of medium to high size and complexity and could be part of a program. Incumbent will execute the project(s) within the defined targeted outcomes, such as financial, schedule, scope and quality, while ensuring customer satisfaction. This role acts as a key point of contact for Sales, Pre-sales, Engagement Managers, Services Management and the customer for the project.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide leadership and direction to the team in order to meet scope requirements and achieve the engagement objectives and milestones.

•  Review the contract and derive actions concerning risks, opportunities, and contractual obligations. Ownership of the customer contract/scope or work. Ultimately responsible for project success from a financial and delivery standpoint

• Proactively monitor the project's overall progress, resolving issues and initiate corrective and preventive action as appropriate.

• Manage customer requirements and project scope to achieve project objectives

• Establish project communication plan and provide communication to project stakeholders on all levels including escalation procedures and project progress reporting

• Perform project risk management including planning, identification, analysis, response planning and controlling

• Manage and resolve issues with all necessary internal and external partners. Maintain a project issue log, report intelligently on project issues based on status and support from the project team

• Enforce project change management process, including but not limited to: documentation of project changes and deviations from project scope, estimate/evaluation and support quoting of changes, positioning change requests on the customer's side and supporting on the procurement process

• Manage the schedule to ensure on time delivery, this includes but not limited to: site acceptance, commissioning activities and go-live support, post go-live support

• Perform project quality management and manage compliance to standards, rules and regulations

• Follow the procurement processes, as required

• Manage contract acceptance and final project handover

• Perform project reviews and retrospectives regularly and feed the results and lessons learned into project and organization 

• Work with Sales Account Manager to understand the value identification and planning processes

• Within the constraints of the contract, understand the anticipated value the project should bring the customer

• Align the project schedule with solution releases and value realization plan

• Work with Sales, Services Management and Program Manager, if any, to drive customers to realize value from digital enterprise solutions

• Identify and create additional opportunities out of the ongoing project and feed those to the Program- and/or Sales Account Manager

• Drive the project team and customer to implement a solution that allows the customer to realize the value

• Collaborate with the customer to ensure agreed KPIs are tracked and met

• Undertake any other duties required by the company.

 KNOWLEDGE/ SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Self Motivated, proactive and detailed oriented

• Driving implementation and commissioning of IT solutions for manufacturing (preferred: MES/Digital Manufacturing or PLM solutions)

• Outstanding organizational skills

• Outstanding communication capabilities, able to explain technical concepts and issues to non-technical audience (Directors/Managers, Executives)

• Planning/Scheduling of project activities, assignment and tracking Familiarity with Microsoft Project or similar tools

• Capabilities of handling project budget related to resource cost/rates, utilization, calculating burn-down rates, cost and revenue forecast

• Measure and optimize cost on project. Maximize project margins

• Knowledge/familiarity with Agile, SCRUM, Kanban or similar iterative approaches

• Experienced in the elements of business standards, compliance & ethics relevant to own role and systematic collection of detailed data

• Good understanding of critical parts of the value chain and main issues of major customers

• Drives adoption of business standards, compliance & ethics, providing leadership in