Project/Program Manager

General Purpose of the Position:

• A Project/Program Manager is assigned one or more projects within Camstar. A project being the completion of identified deliverables for a Customer. The Customer can also be for Camstar (internal and strategic), Camstar partner related, or another corporation.
• Each project belongs to a program. The Project/Program Manager is responsible for following the associated program strategy, which defines the project management, technology approach, implementation methodology and quality, and support for the program.
• The Project/Program Manager is responsible for the wellbeing and success of the assigned project.
• The Project/Program Manager is responsible for the overall architecture of the solution for a project from a functional viewpoint and represents that view in the implementation phases of projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identification of additional sales opportunities for the project, to be addressed by the Sales group.
• Assist in sales meetings, Statement-Of-Work (SOW) generation, estimates-of-effort, or other sales activities associated with the project, representing Camstar or its partners.
• Responsible for implementation of the policies, procedures, best practices, tools, techniques, and deliverables that are defined in the program strategy as applied to the following aspects of the project:
  • Project management methodology, based on the Camstar Quality System.
  • Application of technology and solutions.
  • Implementation methodology, based on the Camstar Quality System.
  • Implementation quality.
  • Implementation support.
• Obtain, manage and lead the personnel assigned to the project.
• Establish, promote, and represent the interests of the Customer and resources for the project. Resources include personnel, equipment, and materials.
• Ensure wellbeing of the project through Customer management level contact, maintaining Customer satisfaction, and reporting of the project status. The project status includes the revenues, costs, and schedule.
• Identify and capture solution requirements. Craft the proposed solution for the requirements and gains the Customer’s agreement through documentation, prototyping, and presentations.
• Reviews the build deliverables to ensure conformance to the proposed solution; this includes design documents, prototypes, test scripts, and test execution.
• This position has no Camstar personnel administration functions.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Team organization, facilitation, management, and leadership.
• Presentation, verbal, and written communications.
• Financial, resource, and time management.
• Problem, situation, and decision analysis.
• The capability to work remotely from Camstar offices, with business travel of up to 75%.
• Architecting and justifying technical solutions to complex business requirements.

Computer Equipment and Software Requirements:

• Knowledge of Microsoft server and networking technologies.
• Knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio.
• Knowledge of standard project life-cycle approaches, technical architectures and solutions, quality programs, and project measurement approaches.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE), and the Software Capability Model (SCM).
• Understanding of the installation and deep knowledge of functionality for the Camstar product suite.
• Deep knowledge of the Camstar Consulting Quality System.

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent experience.
• Experience in pre-and-post sales, project implementation, and support to manufacturing.
• Seven (7) years experience in manufacturing systems integration, software development, and project management.
• Project Management and implementation of projects that required integration of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS), Product Data Management (PDM), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), machine automation, and/or other shop floor and enterprise systems.
• Experience with complex or multi-plant or global MES solutions.
• Experience in multiple manufacturing industries.
• Project management, technical or industry accreditation.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Camstar Systems, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the strength of a diverse workforce. We maintain policies and practices that are designed to prevent discrimination against any qualified employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability and medical condition to the extent protected by law.

These policies apply to all employment practices including hiring, transfer, promotion compensation, benefits, training and termination.

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