at Allied Tube and Conduit dba Atkore International in Mokena, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Manager, IT Projects
Who we are:
Atkore is forging a future where our employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together - a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world.
With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, Atkore is a leading provider of electrical, safety and infrastructure solutions.
Who we are looking for:
We're looking for a true project leader and someone with experience delivering an IT project roadmap. The IT Project Manager JD Edwards will be part of the team responsible for structuring, planning, monitoring, and delivering IT initiatives. This role would oversee small and large programs, manage internally staffed projects, and support fully outsourced and externally managed initiatives. This person would also be charged with managing IT intake and prioritization and developing and implementing an Atkore IT project delivery methodology that is scalable for small and large projects.
The primary responsibility of this position will be to spend 24-36 months deploying JD Edwards across our North American facilities. As a result, we expect this position will require 25-30% travel for the first 2-3 years, then 10-15% travel per year afterward.
What you'll do:
Oversee multiple IT projects through established project management principles and delivery methodologies.
Provide leadership and consistency across Atkore's Digital Roadmap projects that delivers our core JD Edwards solution to all North American facilities and functions.
Participate in developing and monitoring a scalable and reusable IT delivery methodology that will become Atkore's standard work for North American IT projects.
As part of the PMO, assist with developing and monitoring IT delivery metrics that compliment Atkore's Strategy Deployment Process and our Lean Daily Management processes. Introduce these metrics into the IT department's weekly KPI measurement process.
Lead cross-functional teams consisting of Atkore IT and operations personnel, IT consulting/integration partners, 3rd party software providers, and as necessary, internal and external customers and stakeholders.
Establish and monitor delivery performance standards, provide leadership, and facilitate corrective actions when needed to ensure project teams and department initiatives adhere to quality, cost, and timing goals
Support IT leadership in developing a project delivery culture focused on clear objectives and attainment of quality, cost, and timing commitments.
Develop and monitor processes for internal IT administration such as contract management, licensing, and CMDB.
Participate in the project intake and prioritization process that manages all demands for IT projects.
Partner with Atkore's Solution Architect, IT Functional Managers and BA's, and Master Data Manager to deliver results.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What you bring:
A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related/relevant field.
Experience delivering small and large-scale IT initiatives and a history of results in facilitating teams to meet delivery commitments with both on-prem and cloud implementations in a manufacturing setting.
A track record of successful implementations, particularly in the transformation of legacy business processes and IT systems to standardized and common solutions deployed at multiple facilities.
Experience using established project management principles such as Waterfall, Agile, and PMBOK to meet quality, cost, and timing goals of enterprise-level initiatives.
Experience developing and leading projects and mentoring other project managers.
Experience utilizing major consulting and integration firms to staff and deliver.
Experience with Oracle JD Edwards implementations.
Within 3 months, you'll:
Complete your new hire "Immersion" so that you are ready to rock in your new role.
Have developed relationships with the key stakeholders for this role.
Be a member of several IT project teams where you are actively participating and supporting the team.
Have assumed assignments from those project team members.
Within 6-months, you'll:
Be able to autonomously identify the required work to be completed and prioritize those items accordingly.
Managing projects.
Be setting individual goals and making commitments to stakeholders.
Be giving guidance to others and overall adding value to the team.
Within 12-months, you'll:
Have set standards, policy, and procedure for IT project management across Atkore.
Be helping others meet and exceed their commitments.
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Atkore International is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate because of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital or family status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, military veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
