Senior IT Project Manager

About the role

The Senior Project Manager at Centuri is responsible for planning, managing, and delivering digital and business process improvement projects. This role involves leading project teams, managing resources, and ensuring project goals align with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to project team members throughout the project life cycle, ensuring deliverables are met per cost, schedule, and scope commitments.
• Proactively handle escalations as necessary to ensure project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives.
• Manage communication with Subject Matter Experts (SME) and assist in identifying opportunities for business process improvements within project scope.
• Manage the project team with a realistic resource plan for requirement, design or configuration, testing, change management, training, and handover to product support.
• Maintain the project schedule, budget, scope, risks, decisions, issues, and changes while maintaining project documentation and team sites.
• Proactively assess risks and issues and determine appropriate mitigation plans, escalating as necessary and then executing and following up.
• Continuously improve project management tools and methodologies and provide expertise and guidance for indirectly managed projects.
• Review new project intake requests and support the Director of Strategic Initiatives as required, to assess and prioritize the project against the backlog.
• Direct Business Analyst in assigned tasks and foster relationships between Business Analysts and Quality Assurance to reduce requirements ambiguity and inaccurate assumptions during testing.
• Develop or direct others in the development of training plans and materials.
• Partner with project leadership to understand individual business change management needs including key stakeholders; scope and impact of changes; and potential implementation risks and barriers.
• Develop change deliverables, including (but not limited to) change management plan, change impact analysis, stakeholder analysis, communication plan, and sustainability plan.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7 years of experience directly managing large scale projects including technical and business process improvement projects.
• Professional Project Management (PMP) certification is preferred.

Qualifications

• Pass pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens.
• Provide valid US work authorization documents for E-Verify.
• Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check results.
• Valid driver’s license with clean driving record.

Skills

• Project Management
• Change Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Communication Skills
• Leadership

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K with Company Match
• Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Vacation/Sick Time and Paid Holidays
• Potential Bonuses
• Career Development Opportunities
• Employee Discounts
• Weekly Payroll

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Flexible work schedule with occasional evening and weekend work as needed.