What you’ll do:

• Practical experience in agile and waterfall methodologies and working artefacts
• Draft the project charter; ensure requirements are aligned with the scope and approved by the sponsor
• Work with resource managers to staff projects. Define and communicate roles for the project team
• Develop the project plan with direct input from stakeholders that details the work break down structure, critical path, resources, and effort. Ensure stakeholders are committed to the plan
• Establish project budget; capital hardware, software, and labour; expense labour and non-labour
• Develop communication strategies with key stakeholders
• Develop risk management plans; identify risks and develop respective mitigation and contingency plans. Define the risk reserve and incorporate it into the project plan
• Manage employee, contractor, and supplier deliverables to ensure the project is completed on time per the schedule approved at Gate 2
• Manage quality of the deliverables. Ensure all requirements have been validated (i.e., traceability matrix) and ensure the user acceptance tests have been developed, approved, and executed to successful completion prior to going live
• Manage the project budget; track effort and green dollar spend; correlate actuals and forecast to the plan (burn rate)
• Lead communications with key stakeholders. Monitor and report on schedule and budget variances. Ensure all communications related to implementation are completed
• Document and drive issues through resolution; escalate to customer, supplier, and Eaton management as necessary
• Continually manage risk to reduce the impact or likelihood of occurrence
• Develop and manage the implementation plan including production verification. Manage issues at go-live and through warranty period
• Ensure sign-off on all major system deliverables by stakeholders
• Ensure smooth transition
• Lead and document lessons learned with all pertinent stakeholders, review missed estimates with resource managers
• If a capital project, ensure all related tasks are completed

Qualifications and Skills:

• University/college degree or similar qualification
• Ideally 5+ years of previous Project Management work experience; 1-3 years previous Scrum Agile work experience
• Intermediate understanding of integration and impact points of involved systems globally for a business division or function
• Basic (but improving) technical knowledge and basic understanding of computer hardware and software, data management, reporting tools, application programming, data communications, operating systems, utilities and data security
• Intermediate understanding of project budget management and experience managing internal and external labour budget for projects
• Ability to understand and manage capital spend on project
• Ability to communicate and present project status to immediate management
• Intermediate understanding of scrum Agile and ability to serve as a PM or Scrum Master on a scrum project - optional, nice to have
• Excellent Communication skills on all levels, Self Motivation, Leadership, Responsibility, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Decisiveness, Time Management, Flexibility, Negotiation skills, Conflict Resolution

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Flexible working solutions
• Excellent working environment – safety and ethics are important for us
• Culture & Values – we are more than the products we invent and produce – the way we do business is just as important. At Eaton, our values and culture define who we are – both individually and as an organization – and direct our activities every day
• Learning & Development - we invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities, made available through Eaton University