.**JOB RESPONSABILITY**:Progress Rail Summary: For a new PMO organization, need PM's to lead strategic initiatives like companywidehardware refresh, caterpillar mandated corporate audits(responses and remediations), and to research andrecommend right project management and development tools like JIRA, Git, Planview etc selection.The Project Manager (PMP or Scrum certified) of Strategic Initiatives will manage all aspects of various projects of acomplex nature and/or medium size initiatives by assembling a project team, assigning individual responsibilities,identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project. S/hewill identify critical capabilities, project resources, budgets and critical path issues and reports to PMO lead (CaseyP).**Job requirements**- Manage multiple projects of medium-to-large size simultaneously, and their respective project teams ofvarying sizes, complexity and backgrounds through the entire Project Development Life Cycle.- Establish and maintain project plans and project budgets, report progress as required, generate riskassessments, escalate issues, and facilitate project review presentations.- Develop presentation deliverables related to projects.- Facilitate meetings related to projects.- Research into tools JIRA, Github etc and summarize the findings for selection and adoption.- Work with a cross functional teams on assigning tasks, establishing project deliverables and scheduling ofthose tasks and deliverables.- Obtain approvals from primary stakeholder(s) and control project scope, priorities, and schedule.- Contribute to thoughtful and creative discussions with project sponsor(s), stakeholders, department anddivision management on strategic goals, resources, scheduling, plans and challenges.- Assist with the utilization of resources for project planning activities.- Manage the day-to-day projects/logistics and the corresponding communication for each project.- Manage project management reporting, including tracking each critical step, outcomes and finaldeliverables.- Develop, review, and revise project management processes to ensure all steps are completed in an efficientmanner.- Provide an extremely high level of customer service to stakeholders.- Manage a highly complex business calendar with a keen sense of prioritization and time management toensure maximum effectiveness of time use.- Collect and consolidate management data/reports in order to track performance against goals andcorporate strategy.- Exercise independent discretion and judgment to solve complex problems regarding project, department ordivision-related work