Project Manager 3

CoServ

Date: 8 hours ago
City: Denton, Texas
Contract type: Full time
Job Details

Description

Position Summary

Under limited supervision, The Project Manager 3 performs on large projects or small programs, budget tracking, communications, progress monitoring and management reporting. The Project Manager 3 maintains a fully resource loaded schedule, tracks plans and activities, coordinates and monitors tasks to ensure projects/programs are tracking on budget and on schedule; takes and publishes minutes; and communicates project status. The Project Manager 3 must be technically competent in information technologies and promote the use of PMI best practices.

Primary Position Responsibilities

  • Accountability and responsibility for overall project/program success from start to finish.
  • Provides budget analysis, resource planning, and coordination of activities
  • Works closely with business clients:
    • To gather, analyze and document all of the solution requirement details
    • Define and refine a detailed scope of work for all project deliverables
    • Develop a detailed project/program schedule to produce all of the required deliverables.
  • Prepares and publishes MS Project and MS PowerPoint presentations communicating the status of projects and initiatives on a weekly basis
  • Collaborates with appropriate CoServ resources on business, organization and culture to strengthen their credibility as trusted advisors
  • Validate and produce appropriate baseline project plans and templates
  • Assists in generating Statement of Work and vendor proposal documents
  • Works with appropriate parties to plan project resource requirements
  • Assesses project performance and communicates lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge
  • Ensures project team adheres to CoServ policies, procedures, methodologies and quality standards
  • Manages programs including interactions with project team and executives
  • Resolves all project issues including budget, timeline, accounts payable, scope changes, software functionality and technology
  • Provides regular project communication and status reporting
  • Manages project quality to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Proactively manage and resolve issues to minimize crises and escalations, while proactively informing and escalating to appropriate leadership level
  • Manages the acceptance of all formal project deliverables
  • Closes the project/program on completion of all deliverables
  • Leads, manages and monitors project/program teams to execute the project according to plan
  • Proactively manages and resolves issues to minimize crises and escalations, while proactively informing and escalating to appropriate leadership level
  • Provides leadership, guidance and assistance to project team members throughout the project/program life cycle
  • Complies with established CoServ safety and operating rules, procedures and guidelines including reporting unsafe practices to a supervisor
  • Complies with established CoServ Information Security Handbook, policies, procedures, and guidelines including reporting suspected information security incidents to Tech Support
Secondary Position Responsibilities

  • Attends all required company training and employee development
  • Attends monthly department safety meeting or reviews material independently
  • Performs other duties and activities as directed

Supervisory Responsibilities

  • None

Position Requirements

Experience, Education and Certifications Required

  • High School Diploma or G.E.D equivalency
  • Bachelor’s Degree in business or a related field or equivalent work experience
  • 7+ years of experience in a Project Manager role
  • Expert knowledge of practical aspects of project management
  • Mastery of project management techniques and tools.
  • Proficiency in managing cross-functional teams of diverse subject-matter-experts
  • Adeptness in managing multiple projects/programs with competing priorities
  • Experience working with 3rd party suppliers/vendors

Experience, Education And Certifications Preferred

  • Project Management Institute certification in project management or other related disciplines
  • Broad range of technology experience including programming, customer information systems, billing, report generation, analysis, etc.

Skills And Abilities Required

  • Demonstrable competencies in planning and managing a project's/program’s Scope, Schedule, Cost, Resources, Quality and Risks
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • The ability to build, lead, develop, coach and motivate a project team.
  • Proficiency with MS-Project & MS-Office and various other industry tools for Project Management
  • Strong organizational and planning skills to oversee project/program deliverables
  • Strong priority setting and delegation skills
  • Ability to multitask in a dynamic environment
  • Demonstrate attentiveness to quality and productivity
  • Strong analytical, problem solving, negotiating and organizational skills
  • Effective use of reading, writing, oral communications skills, presentation techniques, meeting mechanics and team building techniques
  • Ability to lead project/program teams
  • In-depth knowledge of project management practices and policies
  • Strong written and documentation skills

Skills And Abilities Preferred

  • Ability to operate office machinery, such as copier, fax machine and personal computer

Physical Requirements

  • Operates office equipment such as a computer, telephone, fax machine, copier, etc.
  • Indoor, office environment
  • Ability to lift a minimum of 25 pounds
  • Ability to drive occasionally as needed
  • Ability to sit for long periods of time
  • Requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, and reaching
  • Works extended hours as needed or directed
  • Travels to conferences and/or training as necessary
  • Uses computer for extensive periods of time
  • Attends additional required training as assigned

Other Requirements

  • Must have and maintain a valid Texas driver's license
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