Project Manager

The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for providing project management oversight and leadership for large-scale projects (or multiple medium-sized projects) delivering 3-GIS technology into Tier 1 and Tier 2 Telecommunication companies. This role will be part of a highly motivated, self-supporting project management team that plays an integral part in delivery of projects and are key enablers of 3-GIS’s strategic goals.

Essential Functions

• Provides project management to large-scale projects or programs (or multiple medium-sized projects).
• Leads and motivates the project team toward desired project objective and outcomes.
• Sets and continually manages project expectations with all stakeholders while delegating and managing deliverables with appropriate project staff.
• Defines project success criteria and disseminate to the project team.
• Manages project scope and changes to the scope of assigned projects; updates the Project Schedule for each project.
• Identifies, documents and manages project issues, risks, action items, and decisions; resolves escalated issues in a timely manner.
• Plans, organizes, directs, and control the activities of each assigned project, including budgeting, resource utilization, and financials.
• Follows through on the day-to-day details of each assigned project including managing costs, hours, scope, quality, and schedule.
• Reports financials during monthly PMO meetings to keep 3-GIS management apprised of project progress.
• Leads internal and client-facing project meetings.
• Provide weekly status reporting to internal and external stakeholders regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and decisions.
• Conduct weekly time entry and billable hours review for entire project team.
• Monitor project team member performance and escalate if there are any performance issues that may impact the project.
• May directly manage others; actively monitors performance, participates in performance reviews, conducts training and ensures that deliverables are accomplished accurately and efficiently.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to PMO team members to encourage skill development and professional growth.
• May attend and/or present at industry conferences, lead workshops or write articles for the 3-GIS website.
• Actively participates in all company and department meetings and events.
• Maintains excellent knowledge of all 3-GIS products, policies and PMO procedures.
• Evaluates PMO processes and make recommendations to continuously improve operational efficiency and productivity.
• Continues professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices in project management.
• May perform other duties as assigned in support of the overall success of the company.

Competencies

• Demonstrated leadership and managerial skills; ability to effectively lead high-performing cross-functional teams.
• Expert level knowledge in project management methodology and best practices.
• Ability to understand and apply project management principles, methods, and techniques and train others accordingly.
• Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity.
• Ability to prioritize work assignments and shift work efforts based on the needs of the project or department goals.
• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated and work effectively in a team environment.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and organization skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to represent 3-GIS externally with professionalism and poise up to C Level client sponsors.
• Outstanding problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability; able to handle multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Passionate about traditional project management activities.

Work Environment

• Works in an indoor office/home office environment.
• Sit for long periods, standing and walking intermittently.
• Use office equipment such as computer, mouse, keyboard, printer.
• Occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds.
• 40 hours per week (100%) is mandatory.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline (or equivalent work experience).
• 7+ years of project management experience;
• Experience of working with legacy technology (Smallworld and Ericsson Network Engineer) a preference.
• Prior supervisory experience desired.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong PC skills required, including use of standard MS Office applications and Microsoft Project.
• PMI PMBOK understanding; PMI PMP certification a differentiator.

Expected Hours of Work

• This is a full-time position expected to work 40+ hours per week.