Junior Project Manager

Overall Project Duties and Responsibilities

• Project Planning:

• Participate in internal hand-off from sales phase to execution phase. Responsible for developing list of hand-off deliverables from sales team to execution team

• Create project schedule (software: Microsoft Project). Schedule to encompass tracking total project deliverables, including at minimum hardware and services key dates.

• Define and prepare project responsibility assignment matrix (RACI matrix).

• Project Execution:

• Lead conference calls and project meetings as needed.

• Provide meeting minutes and recap emails for any meetings/conference calls.

• Coordinate cabinet drawing review and approval with PAS lead and/or panel department lead.

• Responsible/coordinator for any necessary drawings/documentation needed for projects (system architecture drawings, server cabinet drawings, cable schedule, …) (Software: Visio)

• Assist in developing hardware FAT procedures.

• Work with sales personnel to provide change order quotations needed in a timely manner:

• Sales lead is responsible for final proposal, to be issued to PM.

• Sales lead / PM, as appropriate, to issue change order to customer.

• Consultation with sales personnel to place and track orders.

• Consultation with sales and services departments on project payment schedule.

• Maintain and update project schedule.

• Ensure that team members are all on the same page and have up to date documentation.

• Deliverable, hardware, time and cost management.

• Resolve, trace and escalate critical issues to minimize project risk factors.

• Communicating intensively with clients, sub-contractors and vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationship.

• Reporting on project progress and communicate relevant information to superiors and company management.

• Work with the Service and Project groups to ensure personnel allocation is assigned per project schedule and tasks.

• Project Completion:

• Ensure all project deliverables have been provided.

• Confirm that all documentation is complete and backed up on the server. (Post FAT documentation, Panel Documentation, etc.)

• Ensure all invoices are issued and paid.

• Document lessons learned and report to upper management to help mitigate those in the future.

• Close project in time accounting.

• Project Closing Surveys.

This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship/assistance at this time.

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