Project Management Specialist

Project Management Specialist—Full Time (On-site)

We are hiring a Project Management Specialist to join the PMO team. The Project Management Specialist will work closely with the PMO to prepare comprehensive action plans, including resources, timeframes and budgets for projects. This position requires excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills to collaborate with clients/internal teams and to coordinate and track project activities, opportunities, and risks. You will perform various coordinating tasks, like schedule and risk management, along with administrative duties, like maintaining progress reports, collecting milestone signoffs, and updating PMO of significant changes made by the Project Manager or Steering Committee.

The Project Management Specialist acts as a liaison between the Customer’s Project Team and our internal teams whilst providing best practices, defining/analyzing gaps and recommending solutions to the Project Team. The Project Management Specialist will liaise and work alongside our Programming and Product Specialist teams to validate functionality, specifications, software modifications meet specifications, and ultimate delivery of these solutions to the Project.

Travel, domestically and internationally, is required.

Job type: Full time / Salaried

Job Level: Entry-mid

Job Location: Fully Onsite - Miami, FL

Remote: No

Qualifications and Skills

Bachelor's in business management or related discipline with at least 2-3 years’ experience, or, at least 5 years equivalent experience is required.
PMP Certification and knowledge/experience in similar ERP projects preferred. Specialist working on PMP certification is accepted.
Proven work experience as a Project Specialist or similar role integrating software solutions in similar industries which for aviation includes.
Experience using a PM software like Monday.com, MS Project required.
An ability to prepare and interpret process flows, flowcharts, schedule deliverables and develop action plans
An ability to learn quickly technical applications, proven to subject matter expert for similar software applications
Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
Strong customer service and teamwork skills
Familiarity with software quality assurance control to ensure deliverables meet Customer specifications
Documentation management and ability to use project management tools, including competency in documentation tools that capture Event Driven Processes: Interfacing.com’s EPC Toolkit or similar.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally required.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and coordinate projects to ensure they are completed on time, with efficient use of resources, facilitating and encouraging collaboration across departments to ensure projects are completed successfully.
Lead project teams to develop and gain approval of project plans, which outline the objectives of the project, scope of work, and project elements, including schedule, project deliverables, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing staff requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of projects.
Develop and maintain project plans and timelines for all workstreams, highlight risks early, and handle day-to-day activities necessary to reach the project goals.
Responsible for seeing the Implementation Project through to its ultimate and successful completion regardless of its duration or any other factors, including, without limitation, ensuring successful and timely delivery of all deliverables and successful and timely completion of all tasks (regardless as to who at the Company was actually assigned to deliver the deliverables and/or complete the tasks);
Communicate frequently with the PMO to ensure that the appropriate Company personnel and resources are available or reserved as required, progress reports and adherence to deliverable timeline to ensure the overall success of the Implementation Project;
Act as the point of contact and communicate the project status to relevant stakeholders. Communicates timeline changes and new information to PMO & internal teams.
Communicate clearly with the Project Manager & Project Team to identify and define project requirements, scope, objectives and priorities
Ensure that project requests, project issues and questions are addressed, completed on time, and accepted in writing by Customer
Acts as a catalyst to remedy project issues and conflicts, engaging the assistance from management, whenever necessary, to resolve issues.
Provide lessons learned / recommendations to project team
Immediately relay to the PMO any potential pitfalls of detrimental decisions made by Project Manager or Steering Committee that may impact the success or timeline of the Implementation Project; and
Adhere to budgets by monitoring expenses and implementing cost-saving measures
Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports. Ensures all needed documentation is current and properly filed and stored.
Other duties as assigned.