Project Manager - Lake Forest, United States - Pactiv Evergreen

Pactiv Evergreen

Verified Company

Lake Forest, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Overview:
All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines and applicable laws.

Responsibilities:

Position Summary:

To manage all activities related to an assigned project, to ensure complete delivery of Scope, within budget and within the agreed timeline.

Position Scope:

Deliver on all project management activities for an assigned project from Initiation through Closure.
Demonstrate natural leadership and communication skills to instil confidence in business team of your expertise and capability.
Be able to manage projects in any functional area of a business, i.e. Manufacturing, Supply Chain, IT / Systems, HR, Finance, etc.
Be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Potentially across multiple businesses, across time zones, internationally, etc. Includes travel nationally and potentially internationally as required by the assigned project.
Must adopt, utilize and enhance the standard company tools, processes and templates.
Must work with a continuous improvement mindset so that all activities become inputs and improvements for future projects.
Identify and manage project interdependencies.
Manage external parties involved in an assigned project.
Manage project completion, handover to steadystate, and post implementation reviews.
Ensure compliance with company policies for health, safety and environment.
Ensure compliance with company policies for governmental and local laws and regulations.

Dimensions:

Employees / Resources reporting directly to you

None organizationally.

Employees / Resources supervised

Project resources. Will be variable as projects commence and complete.

Financial Responsibility

Project budget as assigned.

Key Accountabilities:

ACCOUNTABLE FOR

OBJECTIVE
Project Scope definition, stewardship and management to maintain integrity of deliverables without scope creep.

The Scope to be delivered is clearly understood by all stakeholders and is managed through completion.

Project Budget management to ensure costs are visible, traceable with no unapproved overspend.

The authorized budget is maintained.

Clear line of sight to how the budget was spent for the purpose of traceability as well as future improvements.

Project Timeline is defined and managed to ensure all activities and deliverables are produced in the timeframe expected.

Project is delivered within agreed timeline. Management of timeline provides for future improvements to task estimates, etc.

Changes to Scope, Budget or Timeline are managed using approved change process and communication.

Changes are visible and managed with appropriate approvals and change processes applied. Process is such that changes become inputs for future, similar projects.

Resources to work on the project are identified and locked in so that the timeline and quality deliverables are acceptable to the stakeholders.

All project resources are locked in and their tasks managed to the required timeline and quality standards. Any resource challenges are proactively addressed to not cause any impact on the project or business.

Quality requirements are clearly understood by all stakeholders and achieved for scope deliverables as well as project management deliverables.

The scope is delivered at the quality standards confirmed, plus project deliverables are at the standard required of the PMO.

Project communications are defined and communicated to set the expectation of what, how and when project communications will take place.

All stakeholders on the project are informed at the appropriate times and with the appropriate level and scope of information.

Risks and Issues are identified, captured, qualified and quantified, then managed through to resolution.

Key risks are identified up front, captured and managed through resolution. During the project life, additional focus on risk and issue management is conducted.

Providing guidance and feedback to the business regarding any risks affecting the project, the solution, the business, the customer, etc.

To protect the business and the customer from any impact as a result of the project and the change it is implementing.

Bringing a level of general functional business knowledge to the project to ensure all elements are considered allowing for a successful solution via a successful project delivery.

Be able to converse knowledgeably with the business resources working on the project and other stakeholders to ensure a complete and workable solution is being developed.

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Decision Making Authority:
DECISIONS EXPECTED**Timely escalation of risks, issues or decisions to higher authorities.

Management of approved budget to ensure a successful outcome on the project, but remaining within budget.

Management and development of the project resources to ensure a successful outcome on the project.

Prioritization of work activity.

Escalate to project leadership (i.e. steering committee, sponsor) any project