Project Manager

Special Skill Set:

The Project Manager Mid is a member of the Cybersecurity department specific COE, managing the Airo Fleet technology project related to the Cybersecurity Department. This is a large, complex project involving multiple work streams within the Airo Fleet Technology Program. The Project Manager’s responsibilities include ensuring that the teams follow PLM, scrum framework values, agile practices, facilitating meetings, decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. The Project Manager is to follow the industry standard agile practices and can effectively manage a highly visible complex project. An experienced project manager should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills. Must have PMP and extensive experience with Master Schedules.

Essential Functions

Directs technical leads and other project team members and consultants/contractors.

Development and maintenance of all required project documents including

1) A Project Charter

2) A Project Management Plan

3) Requirements documents

4) Design documents

5) Input to architecture documents

6) Test Plan

7) Test results

8) Implementation Plans

9) Post-Implementation and Lessons Learned

10) Project schedules and budgets

11) Resource management plans.

· Produces weekly program status reports for each program.

· Hold project status and other meetings as necessary.

· Manages the project master schedule via the use of MS Enterprise Project Management (EPM) and MS Project Professional 2010.

· Reports schedule and budget variances

· Creates and maintains SharePoint project site for each project within the EPM system.

· Ensure there are quality and well-maintained project schedules, baselines and estimates to complete program/project and report variances.

· Reports on risks and provides ongoing risk management plan, risk assessment and mitigation within a program/project.

· Reports on ongoing issues and changes utilizing existing processes and templates and publishing reports within a program/project.

· Creates and publishes weekly status report of activities, accomplishments, issues, and action to resolve issues.

· Identifies and ensures all activities required to successfully meet the operational readiness review are completed on time.

· May create a Statement of Work (SOW) for the Request for Proposal (RFP) and associated vendor response evaluation. Verify the creation of all documents from vendors as outlined in the SOW or creation of new ones as required.

· Evaluates criteria for product and proposal analysis.

· Collaborate with SAFe teams on successfully delivering the capabilities and maintain the PLM artifacts.

Deliverables

Deliver programs and projects on schedule and on budget.

Present projects at the Quality Checkpoints

Present projects at the Department Level Project Reviews

Requirements

· Bachelors’ degree in Project Management, Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems or an equivalent combination of work experience, training and education.

· 7-10 years’ experience and significant hands-on Program and Project management experience from project initiation to implementation using formal project management methodologies and processes.

· At least ten years’ experience and significant experience in technology management, analysis, and administration.

· Demonstrated ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders with evidence of willingness and ability to express and protect departmental interests.

· Demonstrated ability to apply strong analytical skills.

· Demonstrated effective communicator and writer, able to tailor messages to the receiving audience.

· Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.

· Demonstrated experience using MS Project Office Professional and MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

· Experience with project management tools such as MS Project Server (EPM), Ariba on Demand, etc.

· Certifications – PMP, CSM, SAFe 5.5/6 related.

Preferred

· At least five years’ experience with project management of Information Security related projects.

· At least five years’ experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project Server (EPM), etc.

· Certifications: PMP and InfoSec - Security , SSCP and/or CISSP