Business Unit: Cubic Transportation Systems Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys. Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. Job Details: Lead the delivery of medium scope project initiatives of moderate complexity that involve obtaining agreement/adoption of project objectives and deliverables by key sponsors. Ensures that a comprehensive project plan is developed and maintained to track deliverables and progress toward completion on time and within budget. Utilises company/industry project management methodologies and tools throughout project lifecycle. Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: End to end project management, from inception and product design, through to completion. Ensures that projects meet quality, schedule, milestone, and budget commitments. Ensures that the goals and objectives of the project are understood and agreed with the project sponsor. Manages project expectations, scope, risk and changes. Provides leadership surrounding risk and issue identification and resolution. Acts as point of contact for escalation of project issues and resolves project conflict. Raises risks and issues to leadership on a timely basis and works with appropriate parties to create mitigation plans. Directs the integrations of a cross-functional project team. Accountable for project metrics and the actions of the project team. Leads through required project documentation such as the project charter, funding requests, status report, project plan, and closure documentation. Continually assesses project resource requirements and reassigns based on revised project schedules. Prepares and distributes reporting, tracking team and project metrics. Provides thought leadership to projects and employees. Builds a positive, collaborative working environment that instills respect, trust, quality and success as its core goals. Responsible for change control, including negotiation of project changes and variations. Other duties may include: Leverages formal change management processes to manage changes to scope, cost, schedule and to ensure alignment in expectations. Tracks and drives resolution on open questions, issues and risks as well as develops risk mitigation plans. Creates detailed project schedules and work plans to ensure all required project deliverables are tracked with dependencies and resource assignments clearly identified. Tracks progress of deliverables to completion and ensures project resources are managed to task plans. Accountable for continuous monitoring of project health and adjusting resource allocations and task plans to ensure the success of the project and its team members. Resource management of project team including prioritising tasks and deadlines appropriately. Actively identifies unstated customer requirements (pain points) and champions these requirements in the product development process. Develops proposals for new business, coordinating statements of work, specification development and subcontractor management. Act as a mentor for junior project managers. General Duties and Responsibilities: Comply with Cubic's Quality Management System. Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures. Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organisations. Other duties as requested. Minimum Job Requirements: Qualifications: Essential: University degree or equivalent in Project Management, Information Systems and Technology Management, Computer Science or other relevant discipline. Project Management Certification in Prince2 or PMBOK. Understanding and experience of managing NZISM activities within the NZ Public sector. Skills/Experience/Knowledge: Essential: Minimum 8 years' experience in delivering technology projects. Proficient in MS Office applications including a working knowledge of Experience using Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint, Oracle Primavera P6 Scheduling Tool. Proven ability to manage multiple projects at one time, including associated project teams. Experience implementing customer portals and managing subcontractors would be highly advantageous. Personal Qualities: Highly driven, self-motivated, and able to work unsupervised. Takes ownership of problem and sees it through to the end. Establishes priorities and meets multiple deadlines. Able to work at a detailed level and step back to a strategic level as required. Able to deal with ambiguity and establish structure to provide clarity. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate new ideas/issues to internal and external customers. Strong commercial acumen. Good influencing and negotiation skills. Condition of Employment: Successful outcome of a National Police Check. The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need. Worker Type: Employee #J-18808-Ljbffr
