Senior Project Manager - Knoxville, TN Location

Role and Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and manage strategic project plans and budgets.
• Develop and gain alignment on project charters that clearly define project scope, deliverables, timeline, resource allocation, and budget.
• Conduct kickoff meetings and regularly scheduled project reviews to ensure that status updates are provided to key stakeholders
• Work closely with team leaders from multiple departments (engineering, purchasing, manufacturing ,) to ensure projects remain on track and within budget.
• Create and manage detailed project schedules and action item lists for assigned projects.
• Perform project closeout meetings to document results and collect lessons learned for assigned projects and programs.
• Collaborate with corporate leaders and stakeholders
• Provide support for planning and prioritization of future projects and programs.
• Coordinate activities and support cross-departmental teams to ensure a high level of communication between internal departments.
• As assigned, support meetings and interactions with customers and partners to ensure strong communication with external stakeholders.
• Create and maintain project documentation for assigned business initiatives and strategic accounts.
• Write technical statements of work and business proposals for externally funded projects.
• Maintain and build greater relationships with customers and suppliers.
• Identify potential new business opportunities that exist within the current customer base or technologies of engagement.
• Report progress project updates to all levels of management, as needed.
• Assess project status and provide support to manage project risk.
• Use project management methodologies to monitor, manage, and control key success factors, including but not limited to risk management, cost management, and schedule management.
• Evaluate and provide suggested improvement to organizational processes and procedures.
• Perform additional duties and functions as assigned by the Program Manager or Executive Staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required education and skills:

• Leadership qualities, such as motivation techniques and conflict-management
• Computer literacy for spreadsheet and word processing software
• Time management skills, especially familiarity with calendar management and goal setting
• Familiarity with the work being done by each team member
• Knowledge of project management processes, such as Scrum and Agile
• Bachelor's degree in related field
• Project Management certification a plus