Technical Project Manager I

Werner Enterprises Omaha, NE

Company

Werner Enterprises

Location

Omaha, NE

Type

Full Time

Job Description

As a Technical Project Manager at Werner, you will manage and monitor the implementation of projects from conception through delivery. You will organize activities ensuring completion within plan, scope, and budget constraints. You will serve as a liaison between cross-functional technical and non-technical resources and stakeholders in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.

The Technical Project Manager helps to identify, escalates, and mitigates project and program impediments. A successful candidate possesses a solid foundation of project management knowledge and experience in the infrastructure and construction IT space. Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and tools used to support agile practices is helpful.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide project management support on medium projects for Werner's Technology department and ensuring follow through from initiation to implementation. Ensure overall progress of assigned project(s) from inception to implementation.
  • Provide management with status reports detailing status and timelines throughout assigned project; ensure project is ready for implementation and conduct a post-project implementation review to make sure everything is running as expected.
  • Create and maintain project files that are well documented, efficiently organized, and shared across the team
  • Provide proper metrics and reporting to ensure projects are on track.
  • Responsible for timely risk/issue identification and mitigation. Escalate project risks and issues to appropriate project leaders, utilizing project management tools and methods to minimize risk and implement mitigation plans.
  • Support matrix teams that span multiple internal organizations (Platform, Network, DevOps etc.). Responsible for aligning plans and removing project impediments across multiple organizations and teams. This often includes effective negotiation skills to establish plans that best align objectives across organizations and with our customers
  • Facilitate the business analysis and technical requirements building process to gather business, functional and technical requirements.
  • Coordinate activities of teams to ensure project progress as scheduled.
  • Serve as project communication focal point / project champion and ensure that proper levels of communication are in place between business units, technology teams and other stakeholders.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by supervisory personnel.
  • Ability to have a flexible work schedule (nights or weekends) at time(s) as needed based on the demands of the project.
  • Timely and regular attendance according to the scheduled shift as determined by supervisory personnel.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.
  • 3-5 years of project or program management experience with an emphasis on technical capabilities
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred or ability to obtain certification.
  • Ability to manage project resources for maximum effectiveness.
  • Work simultaneously with people from multiple professional disciplines. Ability to present your work to others various levels within an organization (Director level and above). Ability to define, move toward, and meet project deadlines.
  • Ability to speak eloquently to business users about technical topics. Ability to speak eloquently to technical people about business related topics.
  • Maintain positive and professional relationships with key decision makers.
  • Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently with guidance and supervision, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.
  • Demonstrates Personal Leadership: Leads by engaging in self-development and living the Werner Core Values
  • Team player, organized and flexible, change-agent (ability to easily adapt and lead change)
  • Encourages open communication and collaborates with all levels of the organization, using crucial conversation skills
  • Speaks and writes clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles.
  • Is receptive to and independently acts on feedback
  • Ability to read and interpret common technical terminology.
  • Ability to plan and prioritize deliverables and tasks into an overall project plan.
  • Emerging knowledge in the technology domain (IT Operations and Infrastructure: Database, Network, Server Administration, Storage, Open Systems, Application Development etc.) and IT software development (SDLC) methodologies and processes
  • Has understanding of Scaled / LEAN Agile Framework and PMBOK methodologies (such as Agile roles, artifacts, processes, and ceremonies of Scrum and Kanban)
  • Proficient in project management tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, SmartSheet, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, MS Office Suite)

Werner Enterprises provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information or veteran status or other status protected by law. We encourage applicants of all ages as we do not discriminate on the basis of an applicant's age.

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Date Posted

08/25/2023

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