IT Project Lead (infrastructure)

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a IT Project Lead (infrastructure).

What you’ll do:

Job summary

The Infrastructure Edge Service organization has an exciting project management position available. This role is responsible for leading impactful and complex projects that directly impact the productivity of Eaton sites and employees globally. The Edge Project Manager will deploy Edge Technologies that include: voice, servers, storage, wired and wireless networking, WAN, firewall. This involves executing projects across the globe with remote teams, resources and vendors to ensure business objectives are met. This role is critical to ensuring that Eaton's IT Infrastructure is kept up to date in order to support Eaton's Digital Transformation objectives while enabling continued business growth.

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The Edge Services Project Manager will be responsible to:

Leverage Eaton’s bi-modal (Agile and PMBOK) management process to ensure business objectives are met

Where appropriate, be part of a Scrum team – Serve the team through the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and deliver value

Work with Resource Managers to staff projects

Define and communicate roles for project team members (functional-technical)

Establish project plan, budget, track spend and communicate current and project burn rates

Work with customers, business relationship managers (BRMs), technical teams and vendors to develop project plans, detailing work breakdown structure / feature map and critical path to value delivery

Maximize the delivery of defined scope, budget, schedule, learning, use and value of edge technology

Job responsibilities

Draft the project charter; ensure requirements / features are aligned with the business outcomes and approved by the sponsor

Work with resource managers to staff projects. Define and communicate roles for project teams

Develop the project plan with direct input from stakeholders that details the work breakdown structure / feature map, critical path, people, resources, and effort. Ensure stakeholders are committed to the plan

Establish project budget; capital hardware, software, and labor; expense labor and non-labor

Develop communication strategies with key stakeholders

Manage employee, contractor, and supplier deliverables

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

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 all invoices are received and processed

Ensure smooth transition to support and that the CMDB is updated

Ensure learning, use and value have been satisfied with all pertinent stakeholders, review missed estimates with resource managers

If a capital project, ensure Capital Allocation Request (CAR) is managed

Qualifications:

Education level required

Bachelor Degree

PMP certificate (Preferred)

Agile/Scrum certified (Preferred)

Years and area of experience required

3-5 years previous Project Management work experience

6-10 years of work experience

New to Role - moving from a different role

Technical knowledge

Basic understanding of some of the Edge IT Infrastructure products

Basic understanding of integration and impact points of involved systems for a division and/or region or function

Basic Understanding of how to acquire and assimilate industry software practices and standards

Basic technical knowledge and basic understanding of computer hardware and software, data management, application programming, data communications, operating systems, utilities and data security

Skills:

Soft skills

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Additional Information:

Organizational chart

Supervisor: Manager. IT

Peers (if applicable): IT Project Managers (4)

Dimensions

Scope of Responsibilities:

Scope can be moderate to significantly ambiguous (significant capability or breakthrough technology and/or business processes that the operating group or function have not done before).

May manage multiple large projects

May require significant investment capital/expense and non-labor expense

May have enterprise-wide or overall Sector impact

May manage projects in different time zones

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.