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Project Manager – Manufacturing Project Services

New Cairo, Cairo
Posted 3 years ago
60Applicants for1 open position
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  • Provides project leadership and oversight of MES solution implementations for customers of the Global Professional Services (GPS) business; requires frequent interaction with Product Development Team, Commercial Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Integrators), and other cross-functional teams. 
  • Scope Management: Leads the project team in effectively controlling project scope of work, using tools for charter development, contract management, and change control.
  • Planning and Scheduling: Assists in developing the project approach and leads the effort to model this approach in the project schedule. Ensures that high-quality integrated planning is performed for all facets of the project life cycle. Performs schedule analysis to establish work priorities, critical path planning, and risk management.
  • Manage dynamic resource allocation, including contract consultants, to maximize effective utilization of resources, ensure project success, and deliver high quality solutions with effective billable utilization.
  • Budgeting: Manages project budgets and allocation of cost to meet projected profitability commitments.
  • Financial Management: Forecasts, manages, and delivers against project revenue/cost plan.  Works closely with Operations and Finance teams to ensure accurate and transparent project financial accounting.
  • Project Performance Management: Ensures that relevant cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics are instituted at all levels in the project. 
  • Project Reporting: Proactively tracks and reports on project progress against schedule, technical delivery milestones, and revenue commitments.  Manages and reports on adjustments to scope, schedule, cost, and issues.
  • Change Management: Drives scope control through formal change management methods. Assists the project team in defining, understanding, and maintaining scope. Assists in the preparation, submission and negotiation of change of scope proposals. Incorporates approved/negotiated changes into the project plan.
  • Leverage processes to evaluate, capture, and apply best practices and lessons learned driving implementation cycle-time improvements.
  • Coordinates and leads progress meetings with customer and business leadership.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience in engineering or computer science.
  • 5+ years in industrial software services functions, with minimum of 3 years in a project leadership role.
  • Strong exposure to MES technologies, including automated data collection, visualization, quality and efficiency in manufacturing, SCADA, automated decision control, workflow, database applications, scheduling, and interface to ERP systems.
  • Strong business acumen; able to fully understand the mission and scope of the business equation
  • Demonstrated customer management skills.
  • Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
  • Strong skills in the use of software business tools (e.g. project management software, spreadsheets, reporting packages, word processing and presentation software).
  • Highly motivated, self-starter.
  • Fluency in Arabic and English is a must

Desired Qualifications:

  • Project Management - PMI PMP certification
  • Exposure to enterprise-level large-scale applications.
  • Experience working in an IT environment or organization.

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