Project Manager

Not just a job but a career

Yokogawa award winner for Best Asset Monitoring Technology and Best Digital Twin Technology at the HP Awards is a leading provider of industrial automation test and measurement information systems and industrial services in several industries.

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition (bio)technology artificial intelligence industrial cybersecurity etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

About the Team
Our 18000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission to co-innovate tomorrow. We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our return we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect value creation collaboration integrity and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Planning

Produce workstream or project plans ensuring that all activities are identified are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives and comply with the organizations project management framework.

Project Scope Definition

Manage the delivery of project activities to support the specification and agreement of project deliverables.

Stakeholder Management

Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective project working relationships and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.

Project Risk and Issue Management

Identify and evaluate risks issues dependencies and constraints associated with the project escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop agree on and implement solutions to overcome these.

Project Reporting and Review

Draft project review reports and presentations including key information commentary and recommendations to support the review process and enable stakeholders to evaluate progress and agree on change.

Project Team Management

Lead a small project team; communicates the outcomes needed and direction to achieve outcome coordinates team actions on project tasks; requests additional team member support when needed; and identifies areas of improvement necessary to build the capability of the team through training coaching and mentoring.

Project Resource Management

Manage the deployment of project resources proactively managing project costs providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.

Work Scheduling and Allocation

Assign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.

Document Preparation

Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports.

Project Close-out and Handover

Draft elements of product documentation and user training to support handover to business as usual. Contribute to post-project reviews and identification of lessons learned.

Project Assurance

Conduct assurance reviews within the project facilitate the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified so that senior stakeholders have confidence that the project can deliver to time budget and quality.

Personal Capability Building

Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology external regulation and industry best practices through ongoing education attending conferences and reading specialist media.

Behavioral Competencies

Drives Results

Consistently achieves results even under tough circumstances. For example devotes considerable effort to surpassing goals and achieving the best possible results; goes above and beyond to achieve excellence. Drives ahead with great focus when faced with obstacles and setbacks; maintains productivity and a positive attitude.

Situational Adaptability

Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations. For example takes steps to adapt to changing needs conditions priorities or opportunities. Understands the cues that suggest a change in approach is needed; adopts new behaviors accordingly.

Skills

Prioritizing

Works with full competence to prioritize components of a project program or portfolio work in context with risks activities stakeholders etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Communications Management

Works with full competence to ensure timely and appropriate planning collection creation distribution storage retrieval management control archiving and disposition of project information. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Management

Works without supervision while providing guidance when required on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost time and quality parameters.

Verbal Communication

Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills without supervision and provides guidance when required on expressing ideas requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.

Data Collection and Analysis

Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

Negotiation

Negotiates without supervision and provides guidance when required on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.

Project Change Management

Works without supervision and provides guidance as required on identifying managing and controlling project-related changes.

Project Quality Management

Works with full competence to manage the work that determines the quality policies procedures and responsibilities so the work satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Resource Planning and Control

Works with full competence to identify acquire and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Risk and Issue Management

Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on identifying assessing prioritizing and managing project-related risks.

Requirements Traceability and Management

Works with full competence to manage the documentation archiving traceability changes and approvals of requirements throughout the project life cycle. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Cost and Budget Management

Works with full competence to estimate and manage the effort and finances to complete the work within budget. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Estimating

Works with full competence to estimate each of the components of project program or portfolio work including costs activity durations resource needs risks stakeholders etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Organization and Structure

Works with full competence to build the structure and culture of the project team and define roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of project mission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Project Schedule Management

Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on sequencing and scheduling tasks into a project plan.

Project Tracking and Reporting

Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on measuring and reporting progress toward intermediate targets to make sure a project stays on track to achieve its ultimate goals.

Education

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Level

General Experience

Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures or systems (7 to 12 months)

Managerial Experience

Basic experience of coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months)

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse equitable and inclusive will actively recruit develop and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience knowledge thinking styles perspective cultural background and socioeconomic will not discriminate based on race skin color age sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation religion belief political opinion nationality ethnicity place of origin disability family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong contribute succeed and demonstrate their full potential.

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