SR PROJECT MANAGER

The Senior Project Manager serves as project manager for the Material Management department. This position oversees large and complex divisional and/or cross-divisional projects with moderate financial risk and extensive change management requirements. Assembles project teams comprised of Project Managers, Engineers, Marketing, Maintenance, Outside Vendors, Supply Chain, other Airlines, etc. and allocates cross-divisional responsibilities and creates and maintains a Microsoft Project schedule. The Senior Project Manager accurately scopes out the length and difficulty of the tasks and projects while managing deliverables that are within scope and create change forms for those items added or deleted. As well as schedules and coordinates the tasks of the highly interdependent deliverables, resources, projects and initiatives. Reports expenditures, prepares funding allocations and justifies cost discrepancies from planned to actual costs. Additionally, this position develops mitigation responses and strategies to address project risks; serves as liaison and main point of contact between the cross-divisional team members, the divisional management requesting the project and all external vendors; plans and measures the program goals and objects; and reports status and addresses program questions to the GM-Inventory Systems and Strategic Planning and other senior level managers, officers and directors. The successful candidate will be responsible for consistently practicing safety-conscious behaviors in all operational processes and procedures.

The Senior Project Manager position requires a Bachelor’s degree and experience in Inventory Management/Planning and Systems Integration with a proven track record of out of the box thinking and an ability to think large scale. Master degree is preferred. PMP certification is preferred. Candidate must be able to successfully execute and manage the scope, schedule and budget of divisional and cross-divisional projects. Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time.