Project Manager - IT

BASIC FUNCTION: The IT Project Manager plans and delivers technology projects across two operating companies, Canal Barge and Marquette Transportation, now aligned under common ownership. This role supports a multi-year integration effort involving migrations, integrations, and new implementations, while keeping modernization and custom development work moving in business lines outside the initial consolidation scope. This is a generalist role by design: most of the time is spent on delivery, with meaningful contribution to demand intake, requirements definition, and business partner engagement.

Responsibilities

• Project and Program Delivery (initially 80%, future state approx. 60%)
  • Plan, schedule, and drive execution of system migrations, application integrations, platform implementations, and custom software development, including work accelerated by AI-assisted development.
  • Maintain project artifacts scaled to the size and risk of the work: charters, work plans, RAID logs, decision registers, and responsibility assignments.
  • Coordinate internal technical resources, business subject matter experts, and third-party vendors against committed scope and dates.
  • Manage scope, schedule, budget, and quality; escalate variances with a recommended course of action.
  • Own project communications and drive cutover planning, testing coordination, user readiness, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Portfolio Intake and Prioritization (initially 5%, future state approx. 20%)
  • Serve as an intake point for new technology requests, capturing enough definition to support informed sequencing.
  • Develop preliminary scope, effort, cost, and benefit views for prioritization discussions with IT and business leadership.
  • Maintain portfolio visibility across dependencies, resource contention, and capacity constraints.
• Business Analysis and Relationship Management (initially 15%, future state approx. 20%)
  • Facilitate requirements elicitation and document processes, functional and non-functional requirements, data needs, and acceptance criteria at a level developers and vendors can build against.
  • Build durable relationships with assigned business functions; represent IT credibly to them and their needs faithfully back to IT.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Three to six years managing IT projects with ownership of full delivery lifecycles, not task coordination alone.
• Direct experience in at least two of: enterprise application implementation, system integration, data migration, or custom software development.
• Proven ability to write clear requirements, plans, and status communications, and to manage third-party vendors against contracted commitments.
• Working command of both traditional and iterative delivery approaches, with the judgment to apply the right one.
• Proficiency with project and work management tooling (monday.com, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or comparable) and Microsoft 365.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Experience delivering during a merger or consolidation.
• Business analysis training.
• Background in marine transportation, logistics, or another asset-intensive industry.
• Exposure to legacy application modernization and IT governance.