Senior Project Manager

As THE leader in transit technology, Hitachi Mobility Multimodal Solutions (HMMS - formerly known as Clever Devices) vision is to make meaningful contributions to worldwide mobility. Our goal is to be the leading provider of exciting technology that improves the quality of mobility in communities around the world. We are continuing to grow, and are looking for a Senior Project Manager join our team.

The Senior Project Manager is a transit industry veteran with a proven track record for leading the design, development, and implementation of Transit ITS projects. A dynamic leader, with excellent communications, interpersonal skills, acknowledged industry experience, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading project teams, managing resources, adherence to schedule performance, and managing the financials of projects throughout the full development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must be able to commute to the Los Angeles, CA region on a weekly basis as this position requires significant on-site presence at the client.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of a project, including planning, organization, and implementation of project activities, ensuring projects are managed in line with scope, budget, schedule, and quality standards
• Provide overall project communication to stakeholders and meet project requirements and stakeholder expectations
• Serves as primary point of contact with the customer of the project and keeps customer appraised of project progress
• Manage and oversee all project activities, such as issue tracking and risk mitigation, facilitating project team meetings and preparing/delivering status reports
• Work closely with cross functional departments (Deployment, Engineering Design, Installation, and Field Service) to ensure successful execution of projects
• Established a working relationship with the customer’s stakeholders and maintains good communication correspondence with customer.
• Assembles appropriate team to meet and exceed project expectations
• Provide direction and control of work performed in the framework of project, including monitoring the critical path and implementation of appropriate corrective actions
• Coordinate and perform review of the project deliverables, software and hardware, and report on project performance
• Manage and plan with the Systems Engineering and Product/Engineering team leads for technical review of system design and documentation with the customer
• Establishes a project plan and schedules according to established company practices, polices, tools and templates.
• Establishes milestones and monitors adherence to program master plans
• Manages financial schedule performance of assigned projects
• Maintains and keeps scheduling of assigned projects and communicates schedule changes as necessary
• Manages full lifecycle of project and ensures each aspect of the project is completed
• Manages procurement of equipment and materials necessary to execute on projects
• Develops subcontractors’ scopes of work, executes subcontracts and manages subcontractors as may be necessary
• Coordinates with Sales and Account Managers to further sales opportunities
• May coordinate proposal preparation, including standards of work and specifications, estimation of product and service costs.
• May participate in negotiation and administration of contracts
• Travel required for onsite at customers facility up to 40%
• Adheres to company processes and policies.

Skills Required:

• 10+ years’ experience as a Project Manager in a technical or engineering environment with a focus on delivering projects to external customers.
• B.S. Degree and or 5+ Years as a Project Manager in and ITS environment
• PMP certification or equivalent preferred.
• Experience in transit industry.
• Strong computer skills, including MS Office Suite, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook as well as ability to learn new software programs such as Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Strong team building and leadership skills. Ability to lead the team.
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong time management skills and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong verbal and written communications, presentation, and persuasive skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong negotiation and influence skills

Hitachi Mobility Multimodal Solutions, (Hitachi Rail CD U.S. Ltd.) is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

The compensation range posted for this position represents the anticipated minimum and maximum compensation for this position based upon a good faith and reasonable estimate. The exact compensation offered will depend on several factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, training, education and/or physical location; internal equity; and, budget.

In addition, HMMS, (Hitachi Rail CD U.S. Ltd.) offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and time off, and many others, depending on the level and position offered. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice based on business need.