IT Project Delivery Manager

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BURNCO Rock Products Ltd has a fantastic opportunity for an IT Project Delivery Manager based out of our regional office in Irving, Texas. You will report to our Director IT, Project Delivery and work closely with our internal key stakeholders in IT, Health and Safety, HR, Finance, as well as our lines of business (Concrete, Asphalt, Aggregate).

An IT Project Delivery Manager is responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of IT projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required quality standards. The IT Project Delivery Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring IT projects are delivered successfully, acting as the bridge between the organization, IT teams, and external vendors or service providers. Strong project management, communication, and leadership skills are essential for this role.

What You Will Be Doing

How we see your role breaking down:

Project Management and Delivery – 60%

Working with IT and business to ensure projects align with the organization's technology and business goals

Responsible for leading and delivering multiple parallel IT Operational projects in a disciplined manner on time, on budget, within scope and quality specifications

Develop well-defined project plans with Organization Change Management (OCM) strategy and stakeholder engagement details.

Lead the creation of step-by-step deployment procedures with backout and roll-back sequences and timings, test plans and procedures

Work hand in hand with contractors and suppliers to complete the required design, installation, commissioning of equipment and systems until complete handover to IT operations and the business

Manage expectations of sponsor, steering committee and project team for agreed upon project performance by obtaining, providing and interpreting project metrics

Work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes

Provide expertise and consulting to junior project managers in the practice of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building and group motivation

Successfully hand over the project outcomes to operations & support teams, leading to successful projects closure

Manage interdependencies with other projects and operational activities.

Project Administration – 25%

Use project management software to maintain schedules and assign tasks

Maintain regular project progress reporting on all phases of the project, as well as manage budget, timeline, issues, and risks with contingency plans to mitigate risks and issues.

Assign work and provide direction regarding timeliness and completion of objectives to project team

Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies used within BURNCO

Ensure project transparency with timely and effective project communications

Report progress to department and steering committee

Collaboration, Operations and Budget – 15%

Prepare and recommend project budgets and schedule for approval

Monitor and balance assigned resources, budget, and schedule as necessary

Negotiate changes in scope, resourcing, budget, or schedule with sponsor and steering committee and/or management

Work with IT procurement to manage all invoices associated with assigned projects

Maintain excellent relationships with vendors and ensure BURNCO is receiving top quality service

Represent project stakeholders within the IT change management process

Gather lessons learned from stakeholders on project results and delivery experience; analyze feedback and incorporate same into on-going and future projects.

Working Conditions

The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular work week from Monday to Friday and on-call availability during implementation and burn-in/warranty periods, dependent upon project scope. As some travel will be required to site locations a valid Drivers License is required, as well as an up to date Passport for occasional travel across the Canada/United States border.

What We Would Like From You

Competencies

Disciplined approach in project management, requirements elicitation, risk and issue management, estimation, and forecasting.

Analytical problem-solving ability for dealing with escalated issues arising from projects

Strong leadership, negotiation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills

Effective multitasking, organizational, time-management and prioritizing competency

Effective in mentoring, coaching, and transferring expertise to others

Expert ability to impact and influence project outcomes

Exceptional interpersonal skills with an emphasis on relationship management

Highly effective verbal and written communications to executive and leadership

Experience/Technical Skills/Knowledge

10+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager leading Capital Projects over $1M

Previous experience within the construction materials industry, with a focus on infrastructure, network, cyber security and applications upgrade desired

Education/Certification/Designation

Bachelors or Masters degree in relevant field (computer science, engineering, business)

Project Management Professional certification or equivalent (Prince-2) required

Previous experience managing projects within a construction materials industry is an asset.

ITIL v4 Foundation, and security certifications are desired

*Any diplomas, certifications, etc, in an IT field would be considered as an asset

COMPETITIVE SALARIES……Worth it!

PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES……They rock!

GREAT BENEFITS Count on it!

CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE……Absolutely!

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES……Always!