Hiring GIS Project Manager

[LaneyJones]

Project Manager

Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, US

Please apply at : American Innovations : Careers & Culture (aiworldwide.com)

Who we are:
American Innovations protects people and the environment by providing proven compliance solutions to oil and gas professionals from the field to the office. More than 30 years of experience drives innovative solutions that address the need for efficient data collection, reporting, and analysis – an integrated family of hardware, software and professional services backed by relentless customer service.
 

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team.  You will be joining a dynamic team of various expertise and will encounter a management team that is very supportive, understands and values your contributions, and provides you every opportunity to be successful.  If are looking for a career, and not just another job, this is the place.
 

What we can offer you:

· Competitive benefits focused on your physical well-being, including Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance and company provided Life and Disability.

· Programs to improve your financial well-being, including a 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% with immediate vesting and financial education courses. 

· Opportunities to give back to the community, including paid volunteer hours.

· Supportive and collaborative environments, happy hours, and fun events.

· Assistance to further your learning and development, including tuition assistance and Lunch and Learns.

· A rewarding culture, with a focus on positive business practices and protecting the environment. 

Pay range: 90-110K

What you can offer us:

· Project Management expertise to develop and drive best practices for professional services engagements. 

· Subject matter expertise related to enterprise software implementations for GIS, field data collection, and asset management.

· Business domain expertise in gas and electric utilities, oil and gas pipelines, other linear asset industries.

· Demonstrated experience delivering successful projects.

· Meeting facilitation skills that encourage open communications, mutual respect, and reflect our core values.

· Mentor team members to grow skills driving continuous professional improvement. 

· Transparency into project activities through the development dashboards and project status reports.

· Identify opportunities to create solution and services products to extend our value to customers.

Position Alignment:

1. Project   Delivery Driver: Leading & coordinating project teams (60%)

· Develop   and implement Project Management best practices that align with AI standards   within the CartoPac Enterprise Services group.

· Use   existing Project Management tools (waterfall and Agile/Scrum) to set up   projects, assign tasks, generate invoices, track work and report on status.

· Maintain project   schedules to provide visibility into capacity and resourcing.

· Help   maintain project Kanban boards and assist with backlog grooming.

· Lead CartoPac   Platform deployments in both our Azure Hosted and on-premise scenarios.

· Lead   solution design workshops to build requirements, use cases, and user stories   to deliver on project success criteria.

· Work with   customers to resolve issues in a way that benefits both parties.

· Facilitate   healthy meeting environments based on mutual respect & our values.

· Set   reasonable, clear & specific goals & hold the team accountable to   achieving them. 

· Participate   in meetings for purposes of scheduling and forecasting.

· Define   roles & responsibilities. 

· Participate   in SW Engineering meetings for purposes of ensuring support items have the   proper priority.

· Host and   guide “post mortem”/ “lessons learned” – make sure we learn & improve.

· Regularly   report project status to the business that includes & summarizes key   elements including overall progress, changes in scope, estimated completion,   key risks, and expected expenses.

2. Business Development: Identify and Capture New Business (20%)

· Build relationships with project team and   sponsors to champion CartoPac success and identify additional work.

· Work with Account Managers and Sales to develop   content for RFI’s and RFP’s.

· Develop Statements of Work.

Execute change management process on projects

3. Process Improvement, Automation, and Product Development (15%)

· Identify opportunities to create solution and   services products and lead efforts to develop.

· Champion and lead continuous improvements of   our processes, solutions, products, and utilities.

· Identify talent and skills gaps in team members   and provide mentorship to grow their value to the company.

· Support and teach others to help support   CartoPac extensions and GIS utilities.

4. Develop myself: get better all the time.  (5%)

· Look for training opportunities that help build   my skills and make me more valuable at work and at home. Discuss with my   manager, schedule, and ensure my responsibilities are covered when I’m out.

· Connect my job to the customer - understand   what our customers do and how my job impacts them.

· Understand what the company does and why,   understand and support our culture. Demonstrate responsibility, ownership,   reliability, service. Know how to live our values.

Be a positive influence, show appreciation, get involved in making our business better. 

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in the US and must be able to pass a pre-employment background and drug test.? American Innovations is an?equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for?employment?without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. 

Requirements

What you need to succeed: 

· 5+ years of experience managing programs or projects with budgets of greater than $500,000, and using various project management methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Scrum)

· 8+ years of experience with GIS, GPS, and data management.

· Understanding of and willingness to work in a servant-leader management model.

· Solid understanding of relational databases, enterprise integrations, and asset management.

· Experience deploying GIS solutions on an Esri Platform.

· Demonstrated experience developing and leading successful and happy teams.

· An entrepreneurial mindset seeking to grow professional services product offerings. 

· Willingness to take initiative, make commitments, and follow through on both.

· Professional demeanor and communication skills.

· Ability to build trusting relationships with customers and fellow employees.