Strategic Programs Project Manager

Who We Are

At Encore Fire Protection, we are proud to be the east coast's largest full-service fire protection company, serving over 90,000 customers from Maine to Louisiana. With a team of over 2,200 dedicated employees, we provide innovative, customized fire suppression, fire sprinkler, and fire alarm solutions that protect lives and properties every day.

Our goal is to deliver superior experience to those who trust us to safeguard what matters most. We are passionate about continuous growth, innovation, and maintaining a culture that thrives on success and commitment to safety. Our mission?

To be the best fire protection company the industry has ever seen.

Encore's Tech Ops Strategic Projects team is scaling to support digital transformation projects, organization-wide rollouts, and new partner integrations. As Project Manager, you will own an initiative end to end — either a strategic technology initiative or an M&A partner integration — independently managing timeline, stakeholders, and risk from kickoff through closeout.

This is a role for someone ready to run their own project without a safety net, while still drawing on the PMO's methodology, templates, and a Project Coordinator's support to keep the operational layer running. You will work across Jira, Confluence, and  daily, and your judgment on what to elevate versus solve yourself will define how much your Director can trust you with next.

Your Path to Success

In Your First 90 Days:

You will learn Encore's PMO methodology in depth and get fluent in the team's core systems — Jira, Confluence, and  You will shadow or inherit an active initiative, build relationships with your stakeholders and any assigned Project Coordinator, and learn how the PMO structures scope, schedule, budget, and risk on both strategic technology and M&A engagements.

Post-90 Days:

You will take full ownership of an assigned initiative — strategic technology project or M&A partner integration — managing scope, schedule, stakeholder communication, and the RAID log independently. You will direct the work of a Project Coordinator where one is assigned, produce status reporting leadership relies on, and begin contributing feedback on PMO templates and standards based on what you learn running real work.

Long-Term Vision:

As you build a track record across initiatives, you will become a candidate for the Senior Project Manager level — owning more complex or concurrent work and mentoring Coordinators and fellow PMs. Your delivery discipline on individual initiatives is what the PMO's credibility with executive leadership is built on.

• Own an initiative end to end — strategic technology project or M&A partner integration — from initiation through closeout

• Manage project scope, schedule, budget (where applicable), and the RAID log independently

• Direct and coordinate the work of an assigned Project Coordinator, including meeting facilitation, documentation, and communication plan execution

• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships across Operations, Finance, Sales, and Technology as required by the initiative

• Identify, elevate and resolve risks, issues, and blockers before they threaten timeline or scope

• Produce and maintain status reports and dashboards for stakeholder and leadership visibility

• Apply the PMO's methodology consistently, and surface feedback that helps evolve templates, governance, and standards
• Work daily in Jira, Confluence, and  as the PMO's core systems

• 3–5 years of project management experience, including ownership of complete projects from initiation through closeout

• Demonstrated ability to manage a project's scope, schedule, stakeholders, and risk independently, without close oversight

• Familiar…