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Waukesha WI
Full Time Posted: Tuesday, 7 May 2013
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Job Number: 1719722 Business: GE Power & Water Business Segment: Power & Water About Us: GE looks for innovation everywhere. For 130 years, GE has been at the forefront of innovation, but finding solutions to the world's biggest problems has never been more important than right now. Join us today and become an essential part of the solution! Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. Working for GE Power and Water is exciting & challenging. Come see what you are missing! Posted Position Title: IT Project Manager Career Level: Experienced Function: Information Technology Function Segment: Business Solutions Location: United States U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces: Wisconsin City: Waukesha Postal Code: 53188-4961 Relocation Assistance: Yes Role Summary/Purpose: GE is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation.

Two of the business' P&L's are using Oracle E-business suite as full cycle ERP System. For continuous improvements, expert support, projects and future consolidation and rollouts we are looking for a talented and engaged IT Project Manager who serves as the direct line supervisor of business solutions project in the Service and Sales space. Essential Responsibilities: In addition, you will:

  • Manage all aspects of one or more projects concurrently from initiation through closure
  • Develop, sell and implement comprehensive project plans, encompassing project team structure and resource assignment, implementation, testing and training plans, creation of a control plan identifying both business process metrics and IT platform quality requirements and ensuring successful transition to support and maintenance teams
  • Own all project risk; including time, budget, and scope, and the associated plans to contain and/or mitigate risk
  • Identify critical path decisions, makes recommendations and influences program leaders and business process owners to maximize project payback
  • Manage daily activities, issue resolution and communication across project execution teams in order to deliver projects on-time, on-budget, as-requested by customer
  • Influence project teams to maximize the utilization of Out of Box functionality (implement profitable and reliable tools at low costs)
  • Facilitate strategy reviews and projects across the Distributed Power divisions
  • Act as central point of contact for any Service or Sales topic to the designated management team Qualifications/Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related technical discipline or High School Diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years industry related experience
  • Minimum 4 years IT experience of which two years should be in project management Additional Eligibility Qualifications: GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Desired Characteristics:
  • GE Leadership Training Program Experience (IMLP, OMLP, FMP)
  • Either prior experience with PLM, Oracle ERP or CRM/Services systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to interface and influence at all levels in the organization
  • Experience leading projects with remote stakeholders and users
  • Demonstrated project management skills including project initiation, scoping, resourcing, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and communication
  • Experience with process quality methodology
  • Project management experience in global environments
  • Demonstrated ability to excel in a global Matrix organization
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Analytic, creative and business focused problem solver
  • Green Belt certified (GE employees only)
  • Lean experience (GE employees only)
  • PMP/ITIL certified (GE employees only)
  • Experience in the Energy industry

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    • Waukesha WI, United States of America
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    5/7/2013 7:14:05 PM
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