Project Manager, IT Project Manager

Description

Project Manager

NLign Analytics is a rapidly growing, aerospace and defense technology company with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. We are a multi-disciplinary mix of engineers, scientists, and computer science professionals with a passion for developing and commercializing technology solutions that address our customer’s most significant challenges and opportunities; we strive to change the way people think and work.

NLign software currently supports military maintenance organizations and large commercial aircraft manufacturers to improve aircraft safety, reliability, increase production rates, and reduce costs. As a member of the NLign team, you will have the opportunity to work on an application that is fundamentally changing the way organizations use inspection, maintenance, and manufacturing data.

This position provides overall project management for assigned strategic projects that contribute to business growth and enhancing efficiencies among the team for a growing software company. Responsibilities include providing project management support to activities relating to long-range planning and existing near-term goals working with software, design, application, and QA engineers in a Scrum/Agile environment. Additionally, this person will coordinate tasks and deadlines with customers.

This position will be accountable for overseeing all aspects of assigned projects and ensures commitment to scope, schedule, and budget are met. This role sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, manages schedule and key milestones, summarizes project progress, builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments contributing to the projects.

More so than seeking a candidate with specific training and experience, NLign seeks a special type of person; someone with an innate curiosity and passion for learning and understanding, tempered by a recognition of the pragmatic constraints inherent in developing real solutions to real problems. They are flexible and adaptable, having the desire and ability to learn new skills and develop new capabilities to take on challenges outside their current realm of experience.

We are seeking very sharp, curious, well-rounded, adaptable people who can learn and grow as required to confront the challenges at hand.

This position will require leadership skills in working with a cross-functional team through roadblocks and issues that could impede progress if not addressed timely. There is a need for a demonstrated ability to influence across business units and effectively coordinate external and internal resources along with a project management track record leading and delivering large complex projects.

• Provide daily project management for research-focused and development programs.
• Forward-looking project planning with attention to tasks to be completed, project due dates, and resource availability.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers and lead recurring status meetings, technical discussions, demonstrations, training coordination, and project reviews.
• Translate statements of work, contract modifications, and customer requirements into development activities and measurable outcomes.
• Manage the execution of customer-funded software projects from kickoff through completion, ensuring alignment with contractual scope, schedule, and budget.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, action items, risks, and decision items.
• Identify project risks, issues, and resource constraints; develop mitigation plans and elevate concerns when appropriate.
• Provide and track accurate forecast spending, financials, milestones, and delivery dates.
• Provide employees with task assignments with defined objectives, due dates, and estimated hours.
• Coordinate projects and their interdependencies by managing and utilizing resources.
• Coordinate with technical leads, developers, quality assurance personnel, product managers and Chief Architect to establish priorities and monitor delivery progress.
• Support product and release planning activities, including roadmap reviews, sprint planning, readiness reviews, and deployment coordination.
• Assist in quarterly and annual planning with attention to past performance and future efforts.
• Track, report, and review company wide KPIs, such as revenue numbers and priorities progress.
• Identify known customer needs to appropriate team members.
• Work with others to define & improve processes and standards for the software and operations teams.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (business, engineering, communications, or related).
• Minimum of 3 years in managing software development, technology implementation, or customer delivery projects.
• Fluent in program management methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple technical projects.
• Planning and implementation experience.
• Expertise in creating work breakdown structures, risk…