IT Project Manager Specialist

What you'll do:

Initiating and Planning
• Draft the project charter; ensure requirements are aligned with the scope and approved by the sponsor
• Work with resource managers to staff projects. Define and communicate roles for project team
• Develop the project plan with direct input from stakeholders that details the work break down structure, critical path, resources, and effort. Ensure stakeholders are committed to the plan
• Establish project budget; capital hardware, software, and labor; expense labor and non-labor
• Develop communication strategies with key stakeholders
• Develop risk management plans; identify risks and develop respective mitigation and contingency plans. Define the risk reserve and incorporate it into the project plan
Execution and Control
• Manage employee, contractor, and supplier deliverables to ensure the project is completed on time per the schedule approved
• Manage quality of the deliverables. Ensure all requirements have been validated (i.e., traceability matrix) and ensure the user acceptance tests have been developed, approved, and executed to successful completion prior to going live
• Manage the project budget; track effort and green dollar spend; correlate actuals and forecast to the plan (burn rate)
• Lead communications with key stakeholders. Monitor and report on schedule and budget variances. Ensure all communications related to implementation are completed
• Document and drive issues through resolution; escalate to customer, supplier, and Eaton management as necessary
• Continually manage risk to reduce the impact or likelihood of occurrence
• Develop and manage the implementation plan including production verification. Manage issues at go-live and through warranty period
Closure
• Ensure sign-off on all major system deliverables by stakeholders
• Ensure all invoices are received and processed
• Ensure smooth transition to support and that the CMDB is updated
• Lead and document lessons learned with all pertinent stakeholders, review missed estimates with resource managers
• If a capital project, ensure CAR is closed

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
• 5 years of project budget management experience
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Beachwood OH will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
• This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1-3 years Scrum Agile experience
• Software implementation experience

Skills:

Technical Knowledge

• Intermediate understanding of some of Eaton key application(s) and/or IT Infrastructure.
• Intermediate understanding of how the Strategy Plan pertains to their role and project(s) in the organization.
• Intermediate understanding of integration and impact points of involved systems globally for a division or function.
• Basic (but improving) technical knowledge and basic understanding of computer hardware and software, data management, application programming, data communications, operating systems, utilities and data security
• Intermediate understanding of project budget management and experience managing internal and external labor budget for projects. Ability to understand and manage capital spend on project.
• Ability to communicate and present project status to immediate management.
• Intermediate understanding of scrum Agile and ability to serve as a PM on scrum master on a scrum project.

Soft skills

• Communication
• Self Motivation
• Leadership
• Responsibility
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Decisiveness
• Ability to Work Under Pressure
• Time Management
• Flexibility
• Negotiation
• Conflict Resolution

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