IT Project Manager

Position Overview:The IT Project Manager plans and delivers business and technology projects across two operating companies Canal Barge and Marquette Transportation now aligned under common ownership. The role supports a multi-year integration effort involving migrations integrations and new implementations while keeping modernization and custom development work moving in business lines outside the initial consolidation scope. This is a generalist role by design: the majority of time is spent on delivery with meaningful contribution to demand intake requirements definition and business partner Responsibilities:Plan schedule and drive execution of technology aided business projects system migrations application integrations platform implementations and custom software development including work accelerated by AI-assisted project artifacts scaled to the size and risk of the work: charters work plans RAID logs decision registers and responsibility internal technical resources business subject matter experts and third-party vendors against committed scope and scope schedule budget and quality; escalate variances with a recommended course of project communications and drive cutover planning testing coordination user readiness and post-implementation as an intake point for new technology requests capturing enough definition to support informed preliminary scope effort cost and benefit views for prioritization discussions with IT and business portfolio visibility across dependencies resource contention and capacity requirements elicitation and document processes functional and non-functional requirements data needs and acceptance criteria at a level developers and vendors can build durable relationships with assigned business functions; represent IT credibly to them and their needs faithfully back to with business sponsors to perform full business impact change management and management of change. Qualifications:Bachelors degree in information systems business engineering or a related field or equivalent to six years managing IT projects with ownership of full delivery lifecycles not task coordination experience in at least two of: enterprise application implementation system integration data migration or custom software ability to write clear requirements plans and status communications and to manage third-party vendors against contracted command of both traditional and iterative delivery approaches with the judgment to apply the right with project and work management tooling ( Microsoft Project Smartsheet Jira or comparable) and Microsoft outside of normal office hours when needed to support the needs of a 24/7 365-day may require up to 15% travel in US for short durations primarily to New Orleans or : PMP or equivalent certification; experience delivering during a merger or consolidation; business analysis training; background in marine transportation logistics or another asset-intensive industry; exposure to legacy application modernization and IT governance.