IT Project Manager - Keller Foundations

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Overview

Keller is the world leader in geotechnical construction and deep foundations. With a North American presence of over 100 years, we operate as the market leader with over 50 offices throughout the US and Canada. By connecting global resources and local experience, Keller develops innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions to geotechnical challenges. Our values of integrity, collaboration, and excellence enable us to lead the industry in providing the optimal solution for our clients.

Keller is looking for an experienced IT Project Manager based out of our Hanover, MD or Little Elm, TX location. This is a Hybrid position and candidate must be local.

Responsibilities

• Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
• Create project schedules identifying project deliverables, milestones, resources and required tasks to deliver projects in line with business requirements whilst following Keller's IT project governance framework.
• Contribute to or lead the development and maintenance of business cases and project approach documents etc.
• Work with development/technical leads to assign and communicate duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to project teams. The PM is responsible for ensuring that activities and actions are coordinated between teams.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline the work plan.
• Create and maintain project documentation and artifacts throughout project life cycle
• Proactive in the monitoring & management of project risk and opportunities, implementing effective mitigation plans. Ensure RAID log is reviewed, updated on a regular basis and in a timely manner and maintained accordingly.
• Escalate project issues and deviations to project schedule, milestones, resources, and processes accordingly.
• Monitor project activities, ensuring the quality and integrity of the information to provide accurate weekly status updates and metrics.
• Implement project communication plan to ensure proactive communication with various members of the organization and project team including project sponsors, key stakeholders, business analysts, end users and external partners.
• Ensure that project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives.
• Ensure that the IT solutions comply with the necessary Security & Compliance requirements and work with IT teams to ensure that the necessary support/technical documentation is produced.
• To identify improvements to policies and processes to enable the IT PMO to achieve a higher capability maturity in project and portfolio management.
• Identify opportunities and contribute to the wider IT cross functional continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor & support other Project Managers and Business Analysts in their role as Delivery Agents.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's or degree in computer science, information systems or a related field.
• 3+ years of demonstrated competency in an IT project management/delivery role involving the execution of multiple projects or a large critical program. Experience of software/application development projects is required. A background in software/application development and/or business analysis is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of project management/delivery methodologies (waterfall and agile) and project-planning tools.
• Experienced using Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams, Sharepoint, Edge, Project for the Web and ADO)
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources. Ability to network effectively across all functions, suppliers, and cultures globally.
• Proactive stakeholder Management. Strong people management and communication skills across all levels of the organization.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust and confidence.
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Project management training and certification is highly desirable.
• Can demonstrate an understanding of ITIL 3 Functions & Processes desirable, but not essential.
• A good understanding and appreciation of Operational Support and post-production sustainment.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability Requirements:

• Energy and drive to ensure deadlines are met, and ability to work well under pressure
• Strong interpersonal and communications sk