Principal IT Project Manager

What you’ll do:

Job Summary
Reporting to the Senior Manager Finance Projects the Principal IT Project Manager is responsible to Initiate, Plan, Control, Execute, and Close project deliverables following Eaton-prescribed process, ProLaunch and Eaton PM Playbook, to ensure business objectives are met for primarily major repeater projects, could be multiple major repeaters and may include an Alien/Strange where large contracts are involved and engagement of SCM and the IPO in Ireland is critical.     

Job Responsibilities

• Draft the project charter; ensure requirements are aligned with the scope and approved by the sponsor
• Work with resource managers to staff projects.  Define and communicate roles for project team
• Develop the project plan with direct input from stakeholders that details the work break down structure, critical path, resources, and effort.  Ensure stakeholders are committed to the plan
• Establish project budget; capital hardware, software, and labor; expense labor and non-labor
• Develop communication strategies with key stakeholders
• Develop risk management plans; identify risks and develop respective mitigation and contingency plans.  Define the risk reserve and incorporate it into the project plan
• Manage employee, contractor, and supplier deliverables to ensure the project is completed on time per the schedule approved at Gate 2
• Manage quality of the deliverables.  Ensure all requirements have been validated (i.e., traceability matrix) and ensure the user acceptance tests have been developed, approved, and executed to successful completion prior to going live
• Manage the project budget; track effort and green dollar spend; correlate actuals and forecast to the plan (burn rate)
• Lead communications with key stakeholders.  Monitor and report on schedule and budget variances.  Ensure all communications related to implementation are completed
• Document and drive issues through resolution; escalate to customer, supplier, and Eaton management as necessary
• Continually manage risk to reduce the impact or likelihood of occurrence
• Develop and manage the implementation plan including production verification.  Manage issues at go-live and through warranty period
• Ensure sign-off on all major system deliverables by stakeholders
• Ensure all invoices are received and processed
• Ensure smooth transition to support and that the CMDB is updated
• Lead and document lessons learned with all pertinent stakeholders, review missed estimates with resource managers
• If a capital project, ensure CAR is closed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Project Management
• Experience with ERP transformation
• Must be legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH, Galesburg MI, Houston TX, Menomonee Falls WI, Moon Township PA, Raleigh NC.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 5 years of Scrum Agile work experience preferred
• Experience with oracle ERP application is preferred

Skills:

Technical knowledge

• Expert-level role with broad experience across one or more fields of expertise. 
• Advanced to SME understanding of some of Eaton key application(s) and/or IT Infrastructure.
• Advanced to SME understanding of the IT Strat Plan and its integration and impact points of involved systems globally for a division or function.
• Is able to understand the integration and interdependencies between projects
• Intermediate to Advanced technical knowledge and solid understanding of computer hardware and software, data management, application programming, data communications, operating systems, utilities and data security.
• Advanced understanding of project budget management and experience managing internal and external labor budget for projects along with ability to manage third party invoicing for software or services for projects.
• Ability to understand and manage capital spend on project.
• Ability to manage relationship with consulting partners on project.
• Ability to communicate and present project status at an executive level within and outside of IT.
• Optional: Advanced understanding of scrum Agile and ability to serve as a PM or scrum master on a scrum project.

Soft skills
Communication-SelfMotivation-Leadership-Responsibility-Teamwork-Problem Solving-Decisiveness-Ability to Work Under Pressure-Time Management-Flexibility-Negotiation-Conflict Resolution