Project Management Expert

2 weeks ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Canadian National Railway Company Full time
Expert Program/Project Management - Cloud At CN, we work together to move our company—and North America—forward.

Be part of our Information & Technology (I&T) team, a critical piece of the engine that keeps us in motion.

From enterprise architecture to operational technology, our teams use the agile methodology to automate and digitize our railroad ensuring our operations run optimally and safely and our employees can focus on value-added tasks.

The project manager will possess the authority to manage end-to-end planning and delivery of multiple parallel projects within the Customer Solutions & Innovation team.

Oversees all aspects of projects, sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of the project, builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects.

Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of the projects and verify that the project portfolio achieves the potential benefits defined in the projects business case.

The project manager will actively participate in the deployment of projects governance, standards & best practices. The project manager will be responsible to supervise project team members as well as manage project managers.

CN has partnered with Google on a cloud transformation journey which starts with the migration of current workloads from its data centers to the cloud.

In parallel a few modernization programs have been launched with a dependency on the Google Cloud Platform foundation. The project manager will be responsible for multiple medium to large projects within the transformation program.

Responsible for coordination and completion of large scale and complex projects.

  • Report progress to delivery manager and/or head of a unit/department and steering committee.
  • Ensure project transparency with timely and effective project communications.
  • Escalate issues and risks with available options as appropriate.
  • Lead steering committee with the Senior Delivery Managers.
  • Align delivery teams & practices throughout the project's execution.
  • Manage project constrains & assumptions and maintain projects KPIs throughout the project's lifecycle.
  • Handover successfully the projects outcomes to operation & support teams, leading to successful projects closure.
At least 5 years experience in Project Management

  • Experience with technical IT projects
  • Experience of managing technology partners and suppliers for datacentres, server, network, and telecoms
  • Experience of managing technical resources within a matrix environment
  • Experience in delivering 'onpremise' to 'cloud' migration projects (ideally on the Google Cloud Platform)
  • A strong technical awareness and background
  • Microsoft, Wintel Server, VMWare, Cloud
  • Azure, GCP or AWS
  • PMP Certification, or equivalent (Prince2, PMI-ACP, Cloud Project Management...) is an asset
  • Ability to think strategically and at the same time diving deep into technical and operational details.
  • Familiar with Agile methodologies (Lean, SCRUM, SAFe, or other), DevOps, and continuous integration & continuous delivery.
  • Master project management best practices and strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with different levels and types of users.
  • Proven track record of delivering to time and budget, technical IT infrastructure and cloud migration projects.
  • Ability to coordinate interdependencies with other projects.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Project Professional Server (PPM)/PWA).
  • Intermediate to expert skill with MS Excel or MS PowerPoint.
  • Excellent communication written and spoken English. Written and spoken French would be an asset.

Essential to the economy, to the customers, and to the communities it serves, CN safely transports more than 300 million tons of natural resources, manufactured products, and finished goods throughout North America every year.

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through a 19,500 mile rail network, CN and its affiliates have been contributing to community prosperity and sustainable trade since 1919.

CN is committed to programs supporting social responsibility and environmental stewardship.

At CN, we are dedicated to building North America's safest, most inclusive and sustainable railroad, which includes reflecting the communities in which we operate.

As an equal employment opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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