Project Manager

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Responsible for managing projects from initiation through delivery as required, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, policies, and security requirements.

Essential Job Duties

• Plan, monitor, and manage internal projects from initiation through completion.
• Organize project teams, assign individual responsibilities, and determine resource requirements.
• Formulate project scope and delivery strategies and establish milestones/schedules.
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously including task delegation, project oversight, and resource allocation.
• Negotiate costs, perform project requirements, estimation, and budget management.
• Report project status and monitor the progress of all team members and stakeholders. Advise leadership of key issues that may impact project completion, budget, or other results.
• Identify obstacles, analyze, and find viable solutions to problems and risks to the completion of the project.
• Assist with end-user and internal documentation of systems, processes, and projects alike for current and future reference.
• Initiate and support continual quality improvement.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Not responsible for supervising employees.

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of related experience required; Still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills.

Preferred Requirements  

• PMI certification.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Frequent use of Outlook, Word, Excel, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain, and incorporate functions into Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and PowerPoint presentations to support business objectives.
• Regularly uses moderately complex oral and written skills. May train others in functional areas, interact with others, and make presentations to departments or middle management.
• Problems encountered are routine, somewhat repetitive, and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures.
• Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area.
• Results are defined; sets personal own goals and determines how to achieve results with few or no guidelines to follow; supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously with moderate complexity.

Essential Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Work is primarily sedentary: must be able to sit for extended periods of time and use a computer, keyboard, and mouse, frequently.
• Travel may be required periodically, including overnight stays (contingent on position requirements).
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds.

Benefits:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fertility Coverage
• 401k with Generous Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
• Short-Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts
• PNC Daily Pay Option

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