Program Manager

Description

Key responsibilities:

The incumbent will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with project leaders to define, prioritise and develop PMO mechanisms of support
• Leading and developing the Sequence Alliance Project Controls
• Ensure accurate and timely cost, schedule and change management communication
• Provide clear communication of how projects are progressing to senior management
• Proactively identifying & raising issues so there are “no surprises”
• Ensuring projects are adequately resources, project delivery groups needs are understood
• Plan and set deliverables and timelines and assign work to PMO Leads
• Produce EVM Management
• Analyse data for resource allocation
• Draft and implement PMO policy and process
• Evaluate programs of work to ensure compliance, quality and performance
• Document project development and execution to scope, budget, and justifications
• Support the PMO Leads in Secretariat activities

Key Experiences preferred:

The candidate of choice should bring 5+ years of hands-on experience of:

• Proven track record delivering complex and international projects +$100 million, in PMO
• Significant commercial experience (5+ years) working in complex, multi-discipline engineering projects including phases of design, procurement, construction, commissioning. Ideally within the rail industry.
• A degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Training in PMP, Prince 2 or similar Project Management methodology.
• Highly motivated, with excellent leadership, organisational, communication and people skills.
• Agile mindset, able to take prompt decisions in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to work and lead in a multicultural environment.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Experience in the following areas of project management: Customer management, scheduling, planning, critical path analysis, change management, risk management, cost estimation

Key qualifications preferred:

• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science with background in Systems Engineering.
• 5 + years experience in a project management role, and this having this experience in rail, systems and signalling is highly desirable;
• Demonstrated ability to work in a diverse cultural organization with multiple key stakeholders displaying highly polished interpersonal and communication skills;
• Experience in effective resource management and working with a large multi-cultural team;
• Estimating and negotiations.