Project Manager

Full Time
Lansing, MI 48917
Posted
Job description

Precision Farming focuses on the marriage of software and hardware to create data availability for the customer to establish more efficient business practices. The business uses IoT, and the field is constantly growing in the agriculture industry. We’re looking for highly skilled project managers to help contribute to Precision Farming’s growth. The ideal candidate will have strong documentation skills, be able to organize multiple ongoing projects, and have strong work plan development skills. The Project Manager will support projects in the Precision Farming portfolio and coordinate activities with key stakeholders. They will be expected to prepare and present progress updates to appropriate management channels on a regular basis, ensuring the innovation we seek is being achieved.


Experience and Skills required:

  • Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle.


  • setting project quality and performance standards, risk mitigation and management, assessing and managing risk within and across multiple projects


  • Structure and manage project timelines to view overall progresses and status throughout lifecycle

  • To coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments.

  • Analyze project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope and timeless to ensure that project team adheres to project requirements

  • Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximize deliverable outputs

  • Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and needed - escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans

  • Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on projects status and changes

  • Key Personal Skills:

  • Ability work witho thers as a team and indepdently


  • Understands business cases and risk management processes


  • Ability to learn quickly and use resources effectively


  • Strong listening and communication (written and verbal) skills


  • Team player attitude, strong customer focus and drive for success

  • Key Competencies:

  • High-level organizational skills


  • Understands business cases and risk managmenent processes


  • Ability to build client relationships easily


  • Analytical ability and exceptoinal problem solving skills


  • Presentation skills and ability to convey project progress


  • Comfortable working in a global matrix organization


  • Ability to build stong relationships across organization


  • Comfortable working in a global matrix organization

  • Academic Background:


    Bachelor’s degree in technical/agricultural fields, IT, business management, or related field

    PMP or other professional certification (preferred)


    Number of years of Professional Experience required:

    5+ years of project management experience

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