Senior Project Manager

Business Unit:

Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions

Company Details:

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We're the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:

Job Summary:

Lead the delivery of small to medium scope project initiatives of moderate complexity that involve obtaining agreement/adoption of project objectives and deliverables by key sponsors. Ensures that a comprehensive project plan is developed and maintained to track deliverables and progress toward completion on time and within budget. Utilizes company/industry project management methodologies and tools throughout project lifecycle. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretion and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures that projects meet quality, schedule, milestone, and budget commitments.
• Collaborates with the PMO Director to develop and implement Project Management Methodology, Process, Tools and Mentoring to the organization
• Ensures that the goals and objectives of the project are understood and agreed with the project sponsor.
• Manages project expectations, scope, risk and changes.
• Provides leadership surrounding issue identification and resolution. Acts as point of contact for escalation of project issues and resolves project conflict.
• Accountable for project metrics and the actions of the project team.
• Leads through required project documentation such as the project charter, funding requests, status report, project plan, and closure documentation.
• Continually assesses project resource requirements and reassigns based on revised project schedules.
• Prepares and distributes weekly and monthly reporting, tracking team and project metrics.
• Provides thought leadership to projects and employees.
• Other responsibilities may include:
• Uses formal project methodology to meet quality, schedule, scope and budget commitments
• Leverages formal change management processes to manage changes to scope, cost, schedule and to ensure alignment in expectations.
• Tracks and drives resolution on open questions, issues and risks as well as develop risk mitigation plans.
• Creates detailed project schedules and work plans to ensure all required project deliverables are tracked with dependencies and resource assignments clearly identified.
• Tracks progress of deliverables to completion and ensure project resources are managed to task plans.
• Accountable for continuous monitoring of project health and adjusting resource allocations and task plans to ensure the success of the project and its team members.
• Resource management of project team including prioritizing tasks and deadlines appropriately.
• Builds a positive, collaborative working environment that instills respect, trust, quality and success as its core goals.
• Raises risks and issues to leadership on a timely basis and work with appropriate parties to create mitigation plans

Minimum Job Requirements:

Four-year degree in Business Administration, Finance or related field plus a minimum of 10 years project management experience or experience in a project support function (scheduling, finance). PMP certification required. Must have advanced understanding and experience using Microsoft Project or Primavera in scheduling projects. Must have advanced knowledge of Earned Value Management. Able to lead a project team. Must have or demonstrated negotiation, analytical, decision making and problem solving skills. Requires excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to manage multiple projects with proven experience in successfully managing and implementing multiple initiatives on behalf of business partners. Able to lead, influence, communicate proactively and interact with people at all levels across the company as well as external partners. Requires focus on achieving results; persists at tasks despite difficulties. Well organized. Must have experience representing Business projects. Able to understand Technical systems. Proven effectiveness managing project resources and prioritizing task conflicts. Must have meeting facilitation skills and leadership experience.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Employee