Junior Project Manager

Pay Range: $35.00hr - $40.00hr

Job Overview:

The Junior Project Manager will support the planning, coordination, governance, and delivery of the digital transformation program. Working under the guidance of the Senior Project Manager, the role will maintain project controls, coordinate cross-functional activities, prepare clear reporting, and help ensure that risks, actions, issues, dependencies, decisions, and milestones are actively managed. This position offers meaningful responsibility within a complex enterprise implementation while providing structured opportunities to build project leadership capability.

Goals and Objectives:

• Support disciplined planning, coordination, and execution across PLM implementation workstreams.
• Improve project visibility through accurate schedules, status reporting, dashboards, and documentation.
• Promote timely delivery by tracking milestones, actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
• Apply Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall project management practices appropriately within an enterprise transformation environment.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project governance, processes, templates, and tools.

Key Deliverables:

• Maintained project plans, schedules, milestone views, and workstream trackers.
• Weekly and monthly status reports, dashboards, and concise executive summaries.
• Current RAID and decision logs, including owners, due dates, mitigation actions, and escalation status.
• Meeting agendas, minutes, action logs, and decision records.
• Stakeholder communication materials, presentations, summaries, and governance packs.
• Organized project repositories, documented processes, templates, and lessons learned.
• Preparation materials for project reviews, tollgates, and steering committee meetings.

Key Activities and Responsibilities:

Project Planning and Delivery Support:

• Maintain integrated project schedules and detailed work plans under the direction of the Senior Project Manager.
• Track tasks, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource commitments across workstreams.
• Support scope definition, effort estimation, sequencing, and coordination of delivery activities.
• Monitor progress against agreed baselines, identify variances, and escalate emerging concerns promptly.
• Coordinate follow-up with workstream leads to maintain momentum and accountability.
• Prepare accurate status reports, dashboards, governance packs, and management summaries.
• Maintain RAID and decision logs and follow up with owners on mitigation and closure actions.
• Support governance meetings, tollgates, reviews, and audit-ready project documentation.
• Apply PMO standards, quality expectations, and document-control practices consistently.
• Help define and monitor practical project performance indicators.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, and working sessions across business, IT, vendors, and external partners.
• Prepare agendas, capture decisions and actions, distribute minutes, and track completion.
• Support clear communication among stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Assist with stakeholder readiness, change management, communication, and training coordination activities.
• Build effective working relationships and communicate emerging delivery risks constructively.
• Maintain project repositories in SharePoint, PLM360, or other approved collaboration tools.
• Support documentation of requirements, processes, workflows, assumptions, and decisions.
• Improve project templates, trackers, reporting methods, and team ways of working.
• Capture lessons learned and help translate them into practical improvements.

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
• A college diploma or equivalent combination of relevant education and practical project experience may also be considered.
• Foundational project management training or certification, such as CAPM, PRINCE2 Foundation, Agile, or Scrum, is an asset.

Professional Experience:

• Approximately 1 to 3 years of experience supporting projects, programs, PMO activities, operations, engineering, IT, manufacturing, or business transformation initiatives. Relevant internships or co-op assignments may be considered as part of this experience.
• Practical experience coordinating meetings, maintaining plans or trackers, preparing status reports, and following up on actions and deliverables.
• Exposure to cross-functional or multi-stakeholder environments, with demonstrated ability to organize information and manage competing priorities.
• Experience supporting enterprise systems, digital transformation, Product Lifecycle Management, ERP, engineering, manufacturing, or data initiatives is an asset.

Required Skills and Capabilities:

• Working knowledge of project management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, issue, dependency, and change control.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and written communication skills.
• Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate reports and presentations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to collaborate effectively, take ownership of assigned work, follow through on commitments, and escalate concerns when needed.
• Attention to detail, sound judgment, curiosity, and the ability to work in a fast-paced matrix environment.

Preferred Skills and Assets:

• Exposure to Teamcenter or another Product Lifecycle Management platform.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery approaches.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, Power BI, or comparable planning and reporting tools.
• Awareness of engineering, manufacturing, service, product data, or digital-thread processes.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams or external delivery partners.

Development Opportunities:

• Hands-on experience supporting a large-scale PLM digital transformation program.
• Exposure to enterprise governance, executive reporting, stakeholder engagement, and change enablement.
• Progressive ownership of defined work packages and smaller project initiatives as capability develops.
• Mentoring and coaching from experienced project and transformation professionals.
• Opportunities to strengthen planning, project controls, facilitation, reporting, and leadership skills.