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Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Department: Project Management Office

Reports To: VP Operations

Summary

As a Senior Project Manager you must be able to manage a large multi-faceted

project/account/campaign or multiple projects at the same time. You must also be able to

manage a Project Manager and/or an Assistant Project Manager and/or team of Project

Managers.

Responsibilities:

1. Project managers are change agents: They make project goals their own and use their

skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. They

enjoy the organized adrenaline of new challenges and the responsibility of driving

business results.

2. Responsibility and Accountability for the Project: Responsible for using best practice

PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and

deliver with-in budget on desired outcomes. Fully accountable for the result of the

project, is the driver that holds the project together. The project manager leads the project

with passion, as if it was his or her own business.

3. Defines Project Roles and Responsibilities: Working closely with the Customer, Sales

Team, Engineering and Manufacturing the PM is ultimately responsible for defining the

project scope and objectives to ensure project members understand what is expected of

them and what they should expect from one another.

4. Performs Project Tracking: Prepares, maintains and submits clear & concise

activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports. The No. 1 reason for

tracking a project is to discover potential problems before they occur. The PM applies

this proactive approach in routinely tracking the project members’ progress against their

project commitments.

5. Adopts Project Management Best Practices: The PM, not management, is responsible

for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices. They

have a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex, interdependent

activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled. They

adapt their approach to the context and constraints of each project, knowing that no "one

size" can fit all the variety of projects. And they are always improving their own and their

teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion.

6. Makes Things Happen: Have the knowledge, skills and experience to be able to

recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming. PM is able to

Senior Project Manager Job Description