Senior 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

Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering analysis and stakeholder consultation activities and specify negotiate and agree on 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

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

Project Team Management

Lead a medium to large project team; defines the project vision and communicates the outcomes needed along with guidance to achieve outcome coordinates team actions on project activities; coordinates flow of additional team members on and off the team as needed; and works to build the capability of the team through training coaching and mentoring.

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.

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.

Project Benefit Realization

Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits.

Project Close-out and Handover

Provide appropriate documentation and training to enable successful transition to business as usual. Identify and record lessons learned to inform future project activity.

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.

Behavioral Competencies

Manages Complexity

Makes sense of complex high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example consistently looks at complex issues from many angles; obtains a rich and deep understanding; swiftly cuts to the core issue; skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.

Drives Results

Consistently achieves results even under tough circumstances. For example holds self to high standards of performance; sets some challenging goals; wants to achieve meaningful results; pursues initiatives/efforts to successful completion and closure. Focuses on key goals even during setbacks and obstacles.

Develops Talent

Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organizations goals. For example consistently shares ideas insight and best practices to help people reach their development goals and achieve optimal results. Shares targeted feedback in a prompt constructive and encouraging manner.

Drives Vision and Purpose

Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. For example operates with a clear sense of purpose that gives meaning to everyday activities. Takes steps to advance the organizations vision and ensures that own efforts align with the workgroups mission.

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

Project Management

Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost time and quality parameters.

Prioritizing

Works at an advanced level 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 independently and provides guidance.

Project Communications Management

Works at an advanced level to ensure timely and appropriate planning collection creation distribution storage retrieval management control archiving and disposition of project information. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Data Collection and Analysis

Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

Project Change Management

Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others 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 at an advanced level to identify acquire and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Verify Requirements

Works with full competence to create the rules for requirements and design quality perform verification activities and maintain quality control. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

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 Risk and Issue Management

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

Project Estimating

Works at an advanced level 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 independently and provides guidance.

Project Meetings and Ceremonies

Works at an advanced level to lead program related meetings keeping focus on agenda issues workflow and associated agile ceremony requirements. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Project Organization and Structure

Works at an advanced level 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 independently and provides 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 Integration Management

Works with full competence to identify define unify and coordinate the various processes and activities to integrate the project management activities. 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.

Stakeholder Expectation Management

Works with full competence to identify potential stakeholders analyze their expectations and develop strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations. Typically works without supervision and may provide guidance.

Education

Engineering Bachelors Degree ( preferred Instrumentation and Controls )

General Experience

Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years)

Managerial Experience

Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)

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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