Project Manager - Kiewit Technology Group

Position Overview

Kiewit Technology Group (KTG) has opportunities available for experienced Project Managers in the Omaha area.  At KTG, Project Manager are responsible for the activities associated with both technical and strategic initiatives.  While some our teams conduct work in a waterfall manner, the volume of work necessitates the use of Agile values and principles to ensure proper prioritization and execution of work. The Project Manager facilitates a variety of meetings, workshops, and ceremonies in support of all types of work for their teams. Additionally, they are responsible for the accurate and timely upkeep of data related to the team’s performance including project schedules, milestones, resource plans, and risks/issues.  The Project Manager fosters the team’s self-organization and does anything possible to help the team realize the goals of their product roadmap and perform at the highest level.

District Overview

Kiewit Technology Group (KTG) builds solutions to enable and support a $12.5 billion company. Our mission is to deliver project schedule and cost certainty by employing technology designed by and for the construction industry. Our team deploys technology solutions to the field and home office departments that increase profitability by maximizing the way we use our people and resources in daily operations. KTG uses systems and tools that manage every part of Kiewit’s business and lifecycle of a project to improve planning and day-to-day execution in the field by giving our people real-time data to make faster, smarter decisions. When you join KTG, you will make an impact on the critical work we do every day. 

Location

This position is based out of our Kiewit Business Center at 12720 I Street Omaha, NE working onsite Monday  - Thursday and optional remote Friday's. 

Responsibilities

•    Oversee multiple concurrent complex projects ensuring the team is fully functional and productive
•    Drive establishment of, and enforce, team ground rules and cultural norms
•    Enable collaboration across all roles and functions. Coordinates as needed with external teams.
•    Ensure the team is fully functional and productive and can react quickly 
•    Protect the team by identifying and removing or escalating any distractions, impediments, or roadblocks
•    Review action items / next steps and hold the team accountable for follow through.  Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time
•    Stay focused on delivery and quality by encouraging teamwork, transparency, and collaboration.
•    Manage budget estimates, actual cost and remaining work forecast/cost evaluations, applicable to the project(s), with the ability to speak to the details and escalate any risks with the project sponsor and stakeholders
•    Develop and manage detailed project and release plans, including all dependencies, resource constraints, associated timelines, gate checks, reviews and reporting
•    Manage interactions with all project participants and stakeholders to ensure an effective transition of reusable project-related documentation and results into production/operations ownership
•    Identify and mitigate risks as they occur elevating them to management, as appropriate, in a timely manner
•    Creatively facilitate retrospectives to elicit ideas and improvements

Qualifications

•    Minimum of three (3) years of experience as software development Project Manager, Program Manager, or a related information management / technology role

•    Experience with various project management methodologies (waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)
•    Must be able to communicate well with teams. Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to present information both to technical and non-technical customers/stakeholders, in appropriate media and form. 
•    Able to use Project Management / Agile methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, while adhering to high quality standards and meeting customer expectations.
•    Able to effectively manage procurement of software, software development and hardware as required by the project.
•    Understand fundamentals of the software development lifecycle
•    Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics (burndown metrics, velocity)
•    Understand backlog tracking and task definition
•    Familiarity with techniques such as user story mapping, personas and persona mapping, visual management, and information radiators
•    Ability to navigate complex release management environments and effective at planning and coordinating software releases at various intervals (monthly, adhoc)
•    Familiarity with work management tools/products, such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, etc. is a plus

*Ideal candidate will have experience managing large projects in one or more of these areas;  HR/HCM, Concur, financials, Data/Snowflake and/or ERP implementations.
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