Senior Project Manager : GIS Implementation

Job Title: Senior Project Manager : GIS Implementation
Job ID: 82563
Location: Calgary, Alberta


What you will be doing:

• Managing, defining, planning, controlling and leading assigned projects based on the approved scope, schedule, and budget.  
• Ensuring adherence to the IT PMO Methodology and the specific Solution Delivery processes and standards.
• Ensuring that project decisions are formally documented, and project deliverables are stored in the official project repository.
• Creating and executing project plans and making revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements of the project.
• Demonstrates good project planning skills including the use of a Gantt plan
  • Knowledge of MS Project is an asset
  • How to manage project timeline gaps and scope gaps
  • Facilitate discussions with team members to develop the plan, planning tasks, estimating, dependencies
• Demonstrates good stakeholder management
  • Ability to facilitate diverse groups to get to decisions
• Identifying resources required and coordinating work of project resources allocated by IT and the Business partners.
• Managing project budget, including tracking, and reporting team hours and expenses as well as forecasting project capital expenditures and operating expenditures where applicable.
• Preparing for stage gate reviews.
• Influencing and engaging all levels of stakeholders from executive leadership to project team members.
• Effectively communicating relevant project information to project stakeholders or steering committee.
• Ensuring that assigned projects are completed on time, on budget, and satisfy the requirements agreed with the client.
• Supporting organizational change as it relates to people, process, and technology.
• Maintain practices and procedures that support enterprise service management, governance, and regulatory processes.

• GIS Implementation experience within a relative utility and or aligned industry where heavy utilization of GIS products are leveraged.
• Experienced in fiscal delivery of an in-flight Project within a corporate wide program.
• Experienced in VP, Director communications and cognizant of change management.