Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for the professional delivery of projects for Motorola's customers, both internally and externally, ensuring key objectives are met while minimizing operational impact. This role involves managing project resources, schedules, documentation, and financials according to PMO guidelines. The Project Manager acts as the primary customer contact, managing stakeholders, subcontractors, and risks to achieve customer satisfaction and maintain compliance with Motorola's quality principles and values.

Must Have

• Deliver projects in accordance with Motorola PMO guidelines
• Overall responsibility for the delivery of assigned projects while minimising operational impact
• Identification and supervision of appropriate project resources
• Accurate estimation of work and resources required to complete tasks
• Manage delivery of project documentation in accordance with customer and Motorola’s requirements
• Create and execute high quality project schedules
• Manage the handover of project delivery items to operations support
• Coordinate, manage, monitor and control allocated projects and programs, within schedule, cost and technical constraints
• Develop and maintain project schedule, statement of work, and risk management plan
• Complete projects in accordance with contracts
• Maintain close liaison with customer project staff
• Develop and maintain project financial status documentation
• Act as primary customer contact for project activities, leading project review sessions with customer
• Establish and maintain very close working relationships with the customer and customer project teams
• Manage and escalate project issues internally and externally
• Meeting and exceeding customer scope, schedule and quality expectations
• Management of subcontractors and third-party suppliers
• Report on project progress and health regularly
• Report on financial status of projects internally on regular basis
• Assessment and management of project risks
• Identify an unambiguous requirement baseline and manage scope
• Tertiary qualifications and/or certification in Project Management or Business Management (PRINCE2, PMBOK)
• Experience with project scheduling software (MS Project, P6, or similar)
• Minimum of 2 years multi-disciplinary experience in project management within the information technology and/or telecommunications industry

Good to Have

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering (Communications, Electrical / Electronic), Information Technology or related discipline
• Experience in radio communications or communications infrastructure projects
• Experience in Systems Engineering or Defence Engineering principles
• Contract and financial management experience

Department Overview

The Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of projects of work for Motorola’s customers. The objective of this role is to professionally delivery projects, both internally and externally, that satisfy the key objectives while minimising interruption to a critical operating environment. The Project Manager will operate in a ‘client centric’ capacity.

• The Project Manager will report functionally to the Project Director.
• The Project Manager has functional management over Motorola assigned project resources and external sub-contractors negotiated for the completion of specific project related tasks.
• The Project Manager will undertake proposals and projects in close cooperation with the business development objectives identified by the Account Management team and through close and effective liaison with many functional groups within Motorola.

Job Description

Project Delivery

• Deliver projects, in parallel, in accordance with Motorola PMO guidelines;
• Overall responsibility for the delivery of assigned projects while minimising operational impact to existing systems.
• Identification and supervision of appropriate project resources.
• Accurate estimation of work and resources required to complete tasks.
• Manage delivery of project documentation in accordance with customer and Motorola’s requirements.
• Create and execute high quality project schedules (including, work breakdown and task structure, resource loading, dependencies, milestones, etc.).
• Manage the handover of project delivery items to operations support.
• Coordinate, manage, monitor and control allocated projects and programs, within schedule, cost and technical constraints.
• Develop and maintain project schedule including, as required:
• Project work breakdown structure.
• Project statement of work.
• Project schedule.
• Complete projects in accordance with contracts, subject to external constraints, and advise customers of potential delinquency.
• Develop and maintain project risk management plan.
• Identify, negotiate, task and monitor appropriate resources.
• Maintain close liaison with customer project staff.
• Develop and maintain project financial status documentation.
• Provides project status reports as required.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as primary customer contact for project activities, leading project review sessions with customer.
• Establish and maintain very close working relationships with the customer and customer project teams as applicable.
• Manage and escalate project issues internally and externally.
• Meeting and exceeding customer scope, schedule and quality expectations.
• Management of subcontractors and third-party suppliers.
• Review pre-sales opportunities to ensure successful estimation and realistic expectations are set early.
• Select and manage third party service providers for use in system solutions. Assess the capabilities of vendors and vendors’ products and services to satisfy a complete system implementation.
• Promote customer satisfaction while maintaining compliance to Motorola Quality principles and values.

Quality & Risk

• Report on project progress and health regularly and as expected.
• Report on financial status of projects internally on regular basis.
• Assessment and management of project risks.
• Identify an unambiguous requirement baseline and manage scope, including opportunities, appropriately.

Leadership & Approach

• Build and maintain a cohesive, enthusiastic and high performing team.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical persons of different cultures with respect.
• Operate and lead with integrity.
• Communicate clearly and effectively.
• Support and promote project management and engineering processes and capabilities.

Basic Requirements

Essential:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or certification in Project Management or Business Management (PRINCE2, PMBOK).
• Experience with project scheduling software (MS Project, P6, or similar).

Desirable:

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering (Communications, Electrical / Electronic), Information Technology or related discipline

Essential:

• Minimum of 2 years multi-disciplinary experience in project management within the information technology and/or telecommunications industry.

Desirable:

• Experience in radio communications or communications infrastructure projects.
• Experience in Systems Engineering or Defence Engineering principles.
• Contract and financial management.