IT Project Manager

Apply for IT Project Manager at Menzies Aviation in Kuwait City, KU, KW. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Overview People. Passion. Pride. This is what has driven our teams since 1833. Since that time, we have developed to become a critical partner in the global aviation industry, delivering time-critical logistics services at 350 locations in more than 65 countries, across six continents. But at the heart of our business is our people.

Lead end-to-end software development projects across the full SDLC, from initiation through to deployment and post-implementation support. Ensure delivery of high-quality solutions on time, within scope and budget, aligned with business and technical requirements. Work closely with stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to ensure effective execution, governance, and continuous improvement.

Lead end-to-end software development projects through the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from project initiation, planning, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support, ensuring delivery within agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality standards, and business objectives. Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, risk and issue registers, dependency tracking, communication plans, and project documentation, while providing regular status reports, KPIs, dashboards, and executive updates.

Manage projects using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies as appropriate, ensuring effective governance, change control, risk management, issue resolution, and continuous monitoring of project progress. Collaborate closely with Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Developers, QA Engineers, Dev Ops, Infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to ensure business requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, validated, and successfully delivered. Coordinate software releases, system integrations, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production deployments, and transition to operational support, ensuring solutions comply with enterprise architecture, security, integration, and quality standards, including ISO/IEC 25010 where applicable.

You will have a responsibility and duty whilst at work to take reasonable care of the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and others in accordance with provided information, training, and workplace health and safety rules or procedures. The company is committed to providing a safe working environment for all staff members. In all areas of our business there is a potential risk to the health, safety and welfare to everyone on our sites through the misuse of alcohol and drugs.

As such the Company prohibits such misuse and carries out regular testing to enforce our Substance Misuse Policy.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline. MBA is an advantage. 7–10 years of experience managing enterprise software development projects. Demonstrated experience delivering web, mobile, cloud, API, and systems integration projects. Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies. PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or Agile certifications are highly desirable.

Good understanding of software architecture, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, Dev Ops, CI/CD, software testing, and systems integration.

Menzies Aviation are a committed equal opportunity employer and encourage applications for suitably qualified and eligible applicants regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, and maternity. We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where the different knowledge, perspectives, experiences, and approaches of our global workforce are represented. Where everyone feels valued and can reach their full potential.

Please be aware that as part of our recruitment process, we may look to use a variety of resourcing tools to help us understand your skills and experience in relation to the role.

As part of our recruitment process, we will always consider how candidates fit with our values which you can learn more about here.