What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at R+L Carriers?
R L Carriers’ Information Technology Department has an immediate opening for a Project Manager. The successful candidate will work within the Information Technology Department managing the scope, schedule, and cost for the development of world-class enterprise applications in support of R L’s leadership in the transportation and logistics industry. The candidate will be a key member of an interdisciplinary team supporting the company’s enterprise software development initiatives working with business stakeholders to understand real world business requirements and to design and develop related enterprise level solutions. This is a fully remote position.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide general project management support which includes: developing and maintaining work breakdown structures, developing and maintaining project schedules, managing the requirements definition process, interfacing with technology subject matter experts, managing projects to their on-time completion, within budget and meeting quality standards.
- Develop business requirements specifications.
- Work with development managers to obtain estimates.
- Facilitate requirements review meetings with the project team and business stakeholders.
- Conduct status meetings and perform risk assessments, tracking action items and provide reporting needed by the Program Management Office.
- Implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure high quality and on-time delivery of projects.
- Work with Business Stakeholders to ensure that customer requirements are clearly defined, that regular customer communications takes place and that the customer is engaged in the project.
- Work with Quality Management to verify that sufficient test plans have been generated.
- Continually work with Business Stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction.
Qualifications
- Experience managing software development projects using a project management methodology (i.e. Agile, PMI or PRINCE2).
- Experience in Logistics/Freight Management
- Demonstrated leader of people, able to earn confidence of others quickly, exhibiting credibility through his/her actions and interactions with others, is committed to team building and must be a good coach and mentor to staff.
- Must be experienced with business requirements development and use cases.
- Excellent project management skills, including meeting facilitation, minute taking and distribution, follow up, problem resolution, accountability for work product and final outcomes.
- Ability to handle non-routine, multi-faceted technical problems is required.
- Must be a taskmaster capable of ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget and meeting quality requirements.
- The successful candidate must possess excellent customer service skills and must be results driven. Also, the successful candidate must inspire motivation and committed to achieving results on behalf of commitments to customers.
- Experience in the Transportation industry is a plus.
- Project Management PMP credentials, ITIL Framework (or equivalent) is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
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R L Carriers is a family owned, privately held transportation company founded in 1965. Our business caters to the transportation and distribution industry and is designed to provide customers with superior service through efficient administration and innovative thinking. The Company prides itself in treating our employees and customers with respect and honesty. We believe each employee contributes directly to the Company’s growth and success. There are many other transportation companies capable of picking up and delivering freight. However, we believed our customers select us because of the efforts of our employees.
R L Carriers offers an excellent compensation and comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Plan with company matching contributions, Paid Vacation & Holidays, and vacation lodging at our exclusive employee resorts in Daytona Beach, FL, Big Bear Lake, CA, Pigeon Forge, TN, and Ocean Isle Beach, NC.
R L Carriers Shared Services, LLC (“R L Carriers”) and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. R L Carriers will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a test or job interview) if so requested. When completing this application, you may exclude information that would disclose or otherwise reference your race, religion, age, sex, genetic, veteran status, disability or any other status protected by federal or state law. This application is considered current for ninety (90) days only. At the end of this period, if you are still interested in employment, it will be necessary for you to reapply by completing a new application.
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