GIS Project Manager

Forge ahead with WSB. We are seeking a GIS Project Manager to join our growing team. What you will do: Manage and deliver complex, technical GIS projects from initiation through close‑out, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. Lead project teams including GIS analysts, developers, architects, and subject matter experts through structured agile delivery approaches, including sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative releases. Coordinate activities such as requirements gathering, solution design, stakeholder engagement, user acceptance testing, and deployment. Monitor project performance proactively, identify risks and issues early, and implement mitigation strategies to maintain project momentum. Ensure that documentation, communication, and change management activities meet WSB and client standards. Serve as primary point of contact for clients, ensuring project expectations are well‑defined, clearly communicated, and consistently met. Facilitate workshops, sprint reviews, demos, and decision‑making sessions with clients and internal stakeholders. Translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights and recommendations for both technical and non‑technical audiences. Build long‑term client relationships by delivering value, anticipating needs, and fostering trust. Provide project management support across WSB’s GIS Group, technical leads, and analysts with planning, coordination, scheduling, and documentation. Help balance workload demands by stepping into active projects to support task tracking, communication, issue management, or sprint facilitation. Assist with coordinating shared resources across multiple projects, ensuring clear prioritization and alignment with group‑wide commitments. Collaborate with GIS leadership to identify process improvements, operational efficiencies, and opportunities to improve team coordination. What you will bring: Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business, GIS, Geography, Planning, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 3+ years of experience managing technical or cross‑disciplinary projects, ideally within consulting, infrastructure, planning, environmental, or technology‑driven industries. Proven experience delivering projects that involve multiple stakeholders, iterative development cycles, and complex technical components. Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Smartsheet, or other work management platforms. Experience working within agile or hybrid project management frameworks; familiarity with Scrum is preferred but not required. Experience supporting or managing complex software implementation projects (e.g., Enterprise GIS or Asset Management systems) is a plus. Experience working in or with renewable energy, utilities, infrastructure, or environmental sectors preferred but not required. Strong project management skills, including scheduling, risk management, scope control, financial tracking, and communication planning. Ability to break down complex technical requirements into clear tasks, user stories, or deliverables that teams can execute efficiently. Skilled in facilitating agile activities (sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews) and fostering iterative, collaborative delivery. Strong competency with project management and collaboration tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Teams, etc.). Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business context for clients and leadership. Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate across disciplines, and drive accountability toward shared outcomes. Benefits Full‑time WSB employees qualify for a competitive compensation and benefits package, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, company‑paid short‑ and long‑term disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for professional growth and development. Part‑time employees can participate in the 401(k) plan and applicable earned paid leave. Equal Opportunity and Accommodation As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status. WSB is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please e‑mail us at [email], including a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. #J-18808-Ljbffr