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Under the general supervision from and on behalf of the Program Manager, the Project Manager assumes responsibility for day-to-day operational management of all activities and functions in the procurement, development and set-up of the Project, including developing, implementing and evaluating program policies, procedures and standards, determining program service levels and enhancements.

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-by-day basis on behalf of the Program Manager. The Project Manager shall have sufficient latitude to exercise some degree of creativity in performing this role.

Planning and problem-solving tasks

• The Project Manager is responsible for planning the project in order to accomplish its goals and produce the products required within constraints such as time, cost and agreed quality standards.
• The Project Manager continuously monitors progress in terms of the status of the plan and the budget and reports back to the Program Managervia regular progress reporting and by organising and managing status meetings.
• The Project Manager must anticipate and catch deviations from a plan or schedule early and keep all participants informed.
• The Project Manager shall identify, log, analyse and manage potential and actual issues and risks, taking corrective action by tackling day-to-day issues and reviewing how more serious issues and risks might impact on scope, schedule, quality and cost.
• The Project Manager shall identify where and when management of issues and risks or accommodating altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and where efficiencies can be made.

Communicating tasks

• The Project Manager should be able to articulate and negotiate consensus on a final vision of the product and/or the core project goals from scoping the requirements of all stakeholders, not forgetting the end-user.
• The Project Manager shall be capable of defining acceptance criteria or working with specialists to define acceptance criteria for project deliverables and will works towards achieving acceptance of deliverables.

Team management tasks

• The Project Manager will identify the need for resource, and should subsequently take on team management responsibilities in relation to the resource available to the project.
• The Project Manager may work directly with the team members to estimate effort and plan activities relevant to their appointed tasks.
• In other cases the work or parts of the work are done by third party contractors under the management and co-ordination of the Project Manager.
• The Project Manager will need to exercise good judgement in whether tasks should be broken down into smaller detail or not.
• The Project Manager should be able to create and use Gantt charts, spreadsheets or other appropriate tools to manage people and tasks and keep up-to-date.

Technical and quality tasks

• Without necessarily being an expert, the Project Manager should make an effort to understand the technology being used in order to understand and question requests coming from specialists and technical staff and to evaluate what is reasonable or possible.
• The Project Manager must have an understanding of relevant methodologies, processes and standards and ensures that all project team members understand and follow these also.
• The Project Manager is responsible for the project’s commitment to quality – also referred to as fitness for purpose or specification level, and may need to call on specialists to assist in creating or assessing quality standards.
  
• Organising tasks
• The Project Manager may need to generate many types of document, including requirement specifications, contracts, schedules, personnel records, project reports, communication (email) records, design specifications, meeting agendas, minutes and status reports.
• The Project Manager may need to create a structure for project documentation and remain conscientious in using it and ensuring that the rest of the team understands and uses it.

The Project Manager may need to create a structure for project assets, including digital assets and remain conscientious in using it and ensuring that the rest of the team understands and uses it.

Reporting to: The Project Manager reports to the Program Manager in respect of a specific project.

Qualification:5 years master degree in Engineering and 10 years working experience

Job Location: Turin, Italy

Availability: 5 days/week

Labor time: 39 hours/week

 

Contact: Please send your CV and contact details to: recruiting@skylogic.it