Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

 Job Description: 

Location: Ottawa on-site

Our Core Engineering team is seeking a Senior IT/DevOps Project Manager with recent experience in cross-functional project management, particularly as it pertains to engineering systems that support product development and delivery, ideally in the Embedded and RTOS Market. The successful candidate will plan, direct, manage, and coordinate the delivery and implementation of major or complex projects within approved cost, schedule and resource limitations while ensuring total internal and external customer satisfaction.

• Works with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Proven flexibility and adaptability in management style is a requirement.
• Plans and ensures optimum use of shared resources; administers and monitors use against budget.
• Coordinates the compilation of required project records including plans, contracts, requirements & design documents, test plans & reports, and other technical data.
• Develops detailed schedules for major or complex projects, detailing all activities required for successful completion.
• Accountable for identification and mitigation of risk factors to drive successful completion of major or complex projects.
• Arranges the distribution of work packages to the responsible function within the company and/or external contractors ensuring awareness of and commitment to project requirements.
• Monitors progress throughout the project cycle, ensuring cost and time constraints are met and acting to ensure problem resolution, as necessary.
• Interfaces cross-functionally within engineering with software developers, testers, documentation experts, functional safety managers, quality management, product management and others to drive the project.
• Interfaces with cross-department stakeholders including Finance, Marketing, Sales, and other technology groups (Corporate Security, Corporate IT).
• May interface externally with customers and contractors in the context of a project.
• Proposes improvements to processes.

Required Skill and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent.
• 7 - 10 years experience in technical program/project management, ideally in the Embedded and RTOS Market.
• Skills in project planning and management, decision making, critical thinking, problem solving.
• Skills in effective leadership, innovation, analysis and communications.
• Experience with software implementation project management, planning and deployments in an AGILE or iterative environment.
• Experience with managing multiple concurrent projects with different time frames.
• 2 - 3 years experience in software development, integration, and/or test with various DBs and OS platforms (Windows, Linux), and the product development lifecycle in general.

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing corporate-internal technology projects.
• Direct experience with implementing a software development organizations’ compliance to any of the following quality-related standards:
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 27001
  • TISAX
• PMP certification would be an asset but is not required

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40