IT Project Manager

Cirrus Aircraft • Duluth, MN

3d

About The Position

The IT Project Manager leads and facilitates cross-functional teams, ensures alignment with standard project and Agile/Scrum practices, and owns execution of initiatives that support the IT strategic roadmap. Working with Product Managers and business stakeholders, the role determines scope and priorities, plans budgets, manages expectations, reports project and team progress, and coordinates enterprise-wide delivery using portfolio management methodology, frameworks, and governance. The Project Manager provides initiative and project status updates and conducts monthly steering team meetings to manage projects, implementation, and support. The role also provides servant leadership to an agile team by educating and coaching team members and stakeholders to maximize efficiency, deliver incremental customer value, and embrace continuous improvement. The position is part of the Information Technology team.

The role leads cross-functional teams and manages project delivery, risks, dependencies, resources, budgets, communications, agile development tools, and project status reporting. It also manages post-release incidents through resolution and conducts root-cause and corrective-action follow-up activities. Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance is required, and estimated travel is 15%. Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 to 7 years of work experience leading teams using agile and hybrid agile/waterfall practices.
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Growth mindset and servant leadership mentality.
• Strong sense of ownership in project leadership.
• Understanding of business analysis best practices and ability to facilitate and document requirements.
• Understanding of quality assurance best practices, test plan development, and plan execution.
• Sound judgment and ability to encourage collaboration and communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, across multiple organizational levels.
• Ability to manage competing work demands and multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with agile project management tools such as Atlassian Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• PMP and Agile/Scrum certifications.
• Experience delivering enterprise solutions used by Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service, such as CRM, service and repair operations, organizational websites and applications, and learning management systems.
• Experience delivering enterprise solutions used by manufacturing and product engineering, such as BOM tracker, MES (Solumina iSeries), and PLM (Windchill).

Responsibilities

• Lead internal and third-party/vendor cross-functional teams in daily stand-ups, iteration planning, and reviews, while monitoring project delivery and team progress.
• Identify and manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across teams to support deliverable commitments.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and technical team members to understand business problems and project deliverables, ensuring work is delivered on schedule, within budget, and within target scope.
• Promote and maintain open, clear communication with team members and stakeholders.
• Manage agile development tools supporting the product backlog, sprint workload, team capacity, and test plans.
• Manage post-release project incidents through resolution and conduct root-cause and corrective-action follow-up activities.
• Manage project resources and budgets using the portfolio management tool.
• Create, maintain, and communicate status documents for inclusion in the IT initiative portfolio and dashboards.
• Provide initiative and project status updates and conduct monthly steering team meetings.
• Maintain regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
• Travel as required; estimated travel is 15%.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage, with additional dependent coverage options.
• Employer-paid group term life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts and health savings account offerings, including company contributions to an HSA.
• Calm Health, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness incentives through the medical provider.
• 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 5% after 90 days, with 100% vesting after 1 year of service.
• PTO plans starting at 100 hours accrued within the first year.
• Paid holidays.
• Two weeks of paid parental leave.
• Paid time for funeral leave and jury duty.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional growth opportunities.
• Cirrus Store, partner, and marketplace discounts.
• Company and employee clubs at various locations.
• Sign-on bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level