IT Project Manager

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

This position sits at the intersection of Information Technology / Information Management (IM) industrial operations engineering and business functions. The Project Manager will be responsible for driving IT-related projects from planning through execution coordinating multiple stakeholders managing dependencies and risks and ensuring projects are delivered according to agreed scope cost quality and schedule.

The ideal candidate has previous experience working in aerospace aircraft manufacturing engineering or another complex industrial environment and understands how IT solutions support production and operational processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate IT / Information Management projectssupporting the Kinston site and its business operations.
• Manage projects from initiation through delivery including scope planning milestones resources budget risks dependencies and deliverables.
• Act as the primary coordination point between business stakeholders manufacturing/engineering teams IT teams vendors and management.
• Understand business and operational requirements and translate them into structured IT project activities and priorities.
• Maintain project roadmaps schedules action plans RAID logs decision logs and delivery plans.
• Identify project risks issues and dependencies early and drive mitigation and escalation when required.
• Ensure effective communication and visibility regarding project progress priorities blockers and decisions.
• Prepare and present project status reporting KPIs delivery performance workload/capacity information and management updates.
• Lead project governance routines including steering meetings project reviews working sessions action follow-up and escalation.
• Monitor project performance against quality cost delivery and schedule objectives.
• Coordinate technical and functional contributors across local regional and potentially global teams.
• Ensure projects comply with client IT/IM governance architecture cybersecurity change management and project management processes.
• Support deployment transition change management and operational readiness activities when applicable.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices tools templates and governance processes.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as an IT Project Manager IT Program Coordinator or senior IT PMOin a complex organization.
• Strong understanding of IT project delivery and Information Management environments.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple technical business and operational stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage:
• Scope and requirements
• Project schedules and milestones
• Risks issues actions and dependencies
• Resources and capacity
• Budgets and delivery performance
• Executive and operational reporting
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate effectively with technical teams business users and senior management.
• Experience working in structured project governance environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to drive actions to closure.
• Ability to work autonomously while coordinating distributed and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong organizational skills with a structured rigorous and execution-oriented mindset.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite inKinston NC approximately 23 days per week

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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