Implementation Specialist - USA

About Us

Emerald Associates is a Canadian Oracle Platinum Partner - Cloud Standard. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, we specialize in Oracle Engineering and Construction (formerly Primavera) suite of products; helping our worldwide Fortune 500 clients improve their project delivery for over 24 years. We take a best-of-breed, highly integrated and automated approach to project management excellence that includes many Emerald proprietary solutions. We are seeking experienced project delivery professionals to join our Implementation Specialist team.

Role - Implementation Specialist

As an Implementation Specialist, you play a leading role with client and internal project delivery success. You take a hands-on leadership role designing and implementing short and long-term project and portfolio solutions including Oracle, Emerald and third-party software tools both on-premise and in the cloud. The ideal candidate is a highly collaborative, proactive self-starter who thrives in a hands-on, team environment. He/she embraces learning new tools, and sharing this technology with clients in innovative ways to improve their project delivery. A passion for working with clients to build long-term relationships and project success is critical.

What You'll Do

• Solutions selection and recommendation through exploratory meetings, solutions demonstrations and ROI analysis
• Solutions Proposal development for phased implementation and project success
• Solutions design, configuration, integration, automation, customization, testing and ongoing support
• Project management, progress reporting and client relationship building
• Training development, training facilitation and tool adoption assistance
• Ongoing support and business process refinement
• Ongoing relationship development and client satisfaction
• New initiative and tools identification and development
• Support the ongoing development of Emerald tools and new product development
• Case study development, blog posting for knowledge sharing, conference presentations

Requirements

• Mandatory Qualifications:
• Fluency in the English language, both written and spoken
• B.Eng., B.Sc., B.Comm., MBA or equivalent technical education
• 3+ years of project management, design or controls related experience
• Ability to travel (25-50% of the job)
• Preferred Qualifications:
• P.Eng., P.E., EIT designation or equivalent
• Professional certificate with PMI or AACE Planning & Scheduling: P6 PPM/EPPM
• Planning & Scheduling: Microsoft Project, P3, Safran, AstaProject
• Cost & Contract Control: Unifier, Primavera Contract Management, Aconex Portfolio Management: Prime, Primavera Portfolio Project Management, Instantis Enterprise Track Risk Analysis: Primavera Risk Analysis (Pertmaster), Safran, Crystal Ball, @Risk
• ERP/EAM systems: SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Maximo
• Reporting/Dashboarding: Power BI, Tableau, Business Objects, Domo, QlikView, Primavera Analytics
• Other project management related tools such as Prolog, Procore , Ecosys, Hard Dollar and Prism, SharePoint, Livelink

Benefits

• 3+ weeks vacation
• 6+ PTO days
• Health and dental
• Casual dress environment
• Flexibility to work from home