Project Manager 2

Overview:
We are looking for a full-time **Project Manager** with experience overseeing software engineering projects. You will work with the Core Platform Technology team at Garmin Canada Inc., located in Cochrane, Alberta. In this role you will be responsible for leveraging understanding and expertise of software project management skills on moderately complex projects or tasks, including understanding and communicating project scope, milestones and decisions.

Come join the Core Platform Technology team We partner with Garmin segment teams to build and integrate Bluetooth and ANT technologies that are leveraged across all Garmin products. We are looking for self-motivated, curious, confident and passionate people to project manage multiple wireless technology projects.

**Responsibilities**:
**Essential Functions**
- Serves as a point of contact for the Core Platform Technologies (Bluetooth and ANT) across multiple Garmin product teams
- Aggregates the latest status / deliverables for a set of Garmin projects and communicates that status to both internal teams and stakeholders.
- Drives the overall progress of assigned projects towards completion, using good judgement in determining when to escalate issues to management
- Applies project metrics and risk management principles to identify and mitigate potential schedule impacting items
- Leads effective and efficient team meetings by ensuring team members and stakeholders are appropriately informed of project scope and schedule, particularly key risks and deliverables.
- Leverages communication skills to ensure team members/stakeholders are appropriately informed, leads project tradeoff discussions and drives decisions to keep projects moving forward
- Creates and maintains timelines and milestone tracking to identify and mitigate potential schedule impacting items
- Drives project development and issue resolution through identification of risks/issues, creation of mitigation plans for projects within their segment and identification of issues which impact other segments
- Identifies and resolves conflicts through understanding of interdependencies of and development of effective relationships between the development team(s), other Garmin teams/departments, and external entities (e.g. customers, suppliers, etc.)
- Understands the level of detail necessary to ensure accurate project reporting and consistently provides clear and accurate project documentation
- Works with team on improving process

Qualifications:
**Basic Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline **AND** a minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience (project management or technical), **OR** an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
- Demonstrated project management skills working on software development projects with software engineers
- Proven communication, interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills through success in previous project management experience
- Demonstrated success in bringing together multiple teams for effective problem resolution
- Proven success in ongoing process improvement initiatives
- Self-starter who can execute work under the general supervision of a team lead or mentor.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
- Ability to work with a team in the development of product/concept development plans as well as successfully execute projects of moderate scale or complexity

**Desirable Qualifications**
- Relevant experience working in an internal service organization (internal org that other internal partners partner with or consume software components from)
- Previous experience managing a deliverable that continuously iterates over time
- Previous experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Previous Project Management experience working closely with both Software and Hardware engineering teams
- Experience with various project management tools including Microsoft tools (Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Azure DevOps) as well as Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA)
- Experience with various Software development life cycle processes including Agile/Scrum.
- Experience working with remote software development teams

**Company Information**

At Garmin Canada, we create more than just products - we inspire solutions and innovations that change and shape how we live, work and play. You’ll get to play an integral role in helping us bring cutting-edge products from concept to market, while working alongside a diverse group of top talent from across 34 countries. When you work at Garmin, adventure doesn’t have to wait for the weekend. This is where you can put your passions into action - and enjoy what you do every day Here are just a few things we think you’ll love about working here:
**You’ll be part of something big.** Every associate is encouraged to think big and share their ideas, which is why our office supports an open-do