Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an international technology group with three core businesses: aerospace, defense, and security. It develops, produces, and markets engines and equipment for air and space, defense electronics, and security solutions.
Position: Project Manager I
Duration: 9 Months (Temp to Hire)
Location: Lancaster, NY, 14086
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Job Type: Onsite
Shift Timings: Mon-Fri (7:00 AM- 3:30 PM / 8:00 AM- 4:30 PM)
Job Description:
- A subcontractor is responsible for assisting the director of projects overseeing and leading projects from ideation through to completion.
- This role requires interaction with a range of internal and external stakeholders, most often managing several moving parts of the project, simultaneously.
- As a role that focuses on completing a Project as efficiently and promptly as possible, typical responsibilities of the Project Manager include:
- Leading project planning sessions
- Coordinating cross-functional contributions and maintaining dashboards
- Managing project progress and adapting work as required
- Ensuring projects meet schedule requirements
- Managing relationships with Program Managers1 (when applicable) and stakeholders
- Overseeing all incoming and outgoing project documentation
- Developing and monitoring a risk mitigation plan
- Conducting project review and creating detailed reports for executive staff
- Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach where necessary
- Following correct procedures and guidelines (Group Recommended Practices)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in engineering, or related field PMP Certification or similar training
- Significant experience on project scheduling and management
- Significant experience using project scheduling software (MS Project)
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office applications
- Product Design Experience
- 5+ year Project Manager Experience or similar
Certifications ( Preferred):
- Professional Engineer (PE) License
- AS9100 Internal Auditor Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt
- PMP (Project Management Professional)
Additional Skills:
- Aerospace design and engineering principles
- Aircraft and aerospace systems knowledge
- Engineering analysis and testing
- Manufacturing and production processes
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lancaster, NY |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $51.92–$58.65 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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