Program/Project Manager

Job Title Coordinate projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities. Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients. Recruit employees, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence. Analyze technology, resource needs and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. Resource will be responsible to work with Caterpillar clients to stand up various projects and programs, from business transformation to shop improvements. Resource will build rapport with project team and stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction. Defining and maintaining project management and process standards. Partnering with Enterprise teams to ensure alignment with Enterprise strategy and leverage of platforms where appropriate. Provides administrative planning and follow-up for program team, steering committee, and governance review meetings. Lead and conduct project schedule making and project milestone drawing. Maintains and can lead update meetings for program level issues/action logs, risk registers/FMEAs, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, program cost tracking and provide workshop planning, execution and follow-up assistance. Create accurate and detailed schedules. The incumbent will capture all information, interpret, and identify relationships between activities, analyzes data from schedule updates, works with project team members to resolve logic errors, explains changes due to updates, and recommends actions to resolve schedule problems. The incumbent must be able to interpret and transfer work breakdown structure (WBS) into project management software. Interpret & communicate Voice of Customer (VOC) and Voice of Business (VOB) needs. Ensure project plans are updated within a timely manner. Work with project team members to mitigate risks. Coordinates project schedule with both the customer and production control. Work with functional areas to develop their detailed activities and schedule. Resource will be in the Morton or Mossville office at a minimum of 50% of a given month. 5 to 7 years of progressively responsible job-related experience in Program Coordination. Strong project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, strong analytical and organizational skills. Customer-oriented, ability to discuss-follow project milestones progress, in addition, to resolving technical/commercial issues with the project scope. Advanced knowledge with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PPT). Knowledgeable in Microsoft Project. (Desired) Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Project. Strong interpersonal skills are desired including team leadership skills, good communication skills, and organizational skills.