Junior Project Manager (onsite) (27199)

LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Junior Project Manager for a long term contract with our client in Charlotte, NC.

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

Responsibilities

• Manage scope and schedule in coordination with IT delivery teams, full budget and fiscal responsibility, project and executive status and reporting, maintaining high quality and timely delivery of projects.
• Be a self-starter and who can think like an owner and can learn and understand what makes the business customer tick so that they can anticipate needs and issues.
• Manage and control aspects of project delivery (triple constraint).
• Create detailed project plans, with all tasks, dependencies, and timelines identified, and keeps those project plans continuously updated.
• Ensure scope, schedule, and budget data are communicated to stakeholders as they may evolve throughout a project.
• Report relevant status to managers and key stakeholders in a timely and consistent manner.
• Establish and maintain schedules, drive activities, identify risks and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies; works with internal teams and external partners.
• Meet with product owner on a regular basis.
• Effectively coordinate groups of technical and non-technical resources to deliver project work in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of 2+ years of experience as a Project Manager
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Must be willing to work at least 4 days per week in office
• Ability to manage triple constraint and PM fundamentals
• Corp to corp candidates will not be considered
• Candidate must be able to effectively communicate in English (written & verbal)

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status or protected veteran status.