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Job Summary:
Q-Free is seeking a Senior Project Manager who possesses strong client relationship building and project management skills. The role involves managing project teams, ensuring project performance, and maintaining communication with stakeholders while leading multiple projects for major clients.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for managing project teams and/or multiple project teams
• Responsible for planning, monitoring and reporting ensuring that projects meets agreed thresholds and objectives
• Responsible for the performance of the project, including financials, schedule and quality
• Scope management: Establish and maintain scope of work definition for project in accordance to contract requirements Conduct change order management
• Planning: Develop and maintain project management plans Develop and maintain project schedules
• Financial management: Create and maintain project budgets/estimates
• Risk management: Create and Manage Risk Management Plans Create and update Risk register and Risk mitigation plans/actions.
• Quality: Plan and follow up for project to meet defined quality requirements. Understand and perform document control functions for all project files that adhere to the Q-Free PMO standards. Work closely with development, testing, and accounting to ensure that all divisions/groups have full project awareness for the appropriate PMO protocols to be supported. Ensure Requirements documents, Design documents, User Manuals, Administration Manuals, Release notes, and training documents are all in sync before customer delivery.
• Project deliverables / scrum: Organize, facilitate, and record all Scrum activities (e.g., planning, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives) and keep stakeholders informed on the team’s progress. Lead requirements gathering/tracking process, orchestrate design stage meetings, manage scope creep, assist with managing UAT, documentation and deployments
• Resource management: Perform resource planning/forecasting Coordinating day-to-day project tasks Work with Engineering to resolve resource and delivery issues/conflicts
• Client handling: Manage client in all aspects Attend and coordinate customer meetings, follow up on customers Recognize and follow up on opportunities for potential new tasks/functionality that the customer could benefit from Work closely with Business Development for new business Perform product demos to clients Develop proposals, contracts, sub-consultant agreements, task orders, statement of work Complete, review and approve customer status reports, and customer invoicing.
• Communication/reporting: Maintain/communicate overall and individual project status forms to communicate to the other groups, customer, and third party consultants; manage all communications to stakeholders Maintain high level project status form for management reporting
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2+ years of experience working in an Agile development environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivering all phases of a IT project
• 3+ years of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Operation Management methodology
• 5+ years of Intelligent Transportation Systems experience
• PMP Certification
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Civil, Transportation, or Electrical) or Computer Science
Preferred:
• Experience with Java programming a plus
• Understanding of business development/marketing practices
• CSM certification is a plus
• Preferred Master’s degree or professional registration.
Company:
THE PRIME MOVER IN INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC SOLUTIONS Q-Free is a global innovator in intelligent transportation systems that improve traffic flow, road safety, and air quality. Founded in 1984, the company is headquartered in Ranheim, NOR, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.