IT Project Manager

15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154

Why Valmont

We're Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce. Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

A Brief Summary of This Position:

This individual contributor role drives the successful planning and execution of Business Application projects and overall project delivery. It maintains overall responsibility for reviewing, planning, organizing, and directing Business Applications program and/or project initiatives. This position will drive consistent process and project management practices across IT and Business Applications, resulting in predictable, measurable services. It work closely with senior leaders, both internal and external to IT and Business, to ensure an alignment of personnel and services with business priorities while creatively identifying solutions. Furthermore, this position serves as the coordinator among all Valmont functional groups to establish a common practice for project management and delivery.

Essential Functions:

• This position reports to the Vice President, IT Service Delivery and has no direct or indirect reports
• Ability to travel up to 50% both domestic and international, overnight travel required; Regular travel between Valley and Omaha sites
• Flexible, hybrid schedule with ability to report into the office 2 days per week
• Ability to manage internal and external projects from inception to successful implementation in a cross-functional environment
• Defines resource requirements and partners with business process/product owners to ensure that complex projects are appropriately resourced and completed within committed time, scope, and budget
• Understanding of the software development process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
• Strong analysis, design, and implementation experience with expertise in setting and managing customer expectations
• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
• Ability to communicate needs and schedules to customers, as well as ensuring that plans are in place and standards are adhered to
• Present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding
• Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with stakeholders regarding pertinent project updates and activities
• Support the development of project management standards and procedures

Other Important Details about the Role:

• Initiates and implements new technologies, methodologies, processes, and procedures that will support Company goals
• Demonstrates skill in conceptualizing creative solutions, as well as documenting them and presenting/selling them to senior management
• Coaches the project team to initiate and present the right questions to gain insight into the business issues and needed resolutions

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

• Preferred Bachelors with 6+ years relevant experience or Associates Degree with 8+ years relevant experience or 10+ years of relevant experience
• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience as a project manager
• Must be able to work effectively with people at all levels, solve personal conflicts, understand and diagnose the causes of change resistance and lead without authority
• Experience with implementing and maintaining business systems to support a corporate business environment/function
• Demonstrate advanced level analytical and problem-solving skills and root cause analysis
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at all levels
• Must have leadership skills with the ability to influence, build relationships, manage high priority items, and adjust to shifting priorities while meeting deadlines
• Demonstrates the ability to adapt to and lead change
• High level of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Highly Qualified Candidates May Also Possess These Qualifications:

• Project Management Certification
• Graduate degree
• Familiar with the alignment between project management, lean manufacturing, and IT applications
• Experience with SAP 4HANA
• Experience with global manufacturing companies
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall system development methodologies
• Additional language skills in Spanish, French, Polish or Portuguese a plus but not required

Benefits:

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Well-being benefit package to ensure their personal and family's overall wellness needs are met.

Benefits include*:

o Medical, dental and vision insurance

o Paid time off

o Employer paid life insurance

o Employer paid short-term and long-term disability

o Retirement plans

o Dependent care

o Employee assistance programs

o Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, mortgage services, home & auto insurance, health coaching and more.

Because of the nature of Valmont's Global Business and Union contracts, not all benefits are the same.

Working Environment and Physical Efforts:

Work is typically performed in an office setting. The incumbent is regularly required to sit for extended periods, as well as talk and listen on the phone and in personal conversations or meetings. The employee is expected to utilize proper ergonomic safeguards such as to monitor height and position, keyboard location and height, and see that proper wrist rests are used. The environment is fast-paced and demanding most of the time. Travel (up to 50%) may be required to sites both domestically and internationally. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms while working in the office with various files and forms and while working on the computer. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk when moving about the office. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds in working with large files, binders, and computer equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

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