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DreamWorks Animation · 16 hours ago

Sr Engineering Project Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$90K/yr - $120K/yr

5+ years exp

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. The Senior Engineering Project Manager is responsible for providing leadership and direction to effectively deliver engineering projects while managing multi-business unit and stakeholder relationships.

AnimationFilmMedia and Entertainment

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Be part of the Production Engineering and Workplace Technology PMO

Join a team of creative, curious, and passionate professionals whose mission is to deliver high standards solutions to our business

Ensure that our projects and strategies meet the evolving needs of the enterprise through continuous innovation, evaluation, and execution

Require strong multi-business unit and stakeholder management

Work well in a dynamic, complex environment and under deadline pressures

Provide the leadership and direction to effectively deliver engineering projects

Manage and deliver projects and small programs comprised of cross-matrixed teams; coordinate activities within the project/program team

Analyze and provide regular status reports that are objective and reflect the true state of progress

Ensure that projects are executed within specified timeframes and budget in accordance with quality and benefit targets using defined controls and processes

Collaborate with teams to identify, log, track and resolve principles of professional project management such as Risk, Issue, Dependency, Decision and Change Management, Resource and Capacity Management and leverage these to improve control and visibility

Manage escalations either within the team or to sponsors and executives when needing steer

Manage the complete lifecycle and facilitate the team to transition from phase to phase

Lead the communication and dissemination of information between all working teams

Manage meetings and check-ins with teams and leadership, defining and mitigating any issues

Adhere to PMO governance (i.e., project charter, change management, etc.)

Develop and foster relationships with portfolio leaders, project managers, and external partners

Facilitate weekly project reviews, including ownership of scheduling, presentations, and capturing meeting notes and action items

Develop project closeout reports

Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint, Project, PowerBI, Smartsheets

Demonstrate an appropriate sense of urgency and commitment for critical deliverables

Communicate effectively across multiple levels of the organization, including managing through cross-business area or business unit prioritization discussions

Synthesize and simplify complex concepts/requirements to the team and stakeholders and tie back to business objectives

Encourage and promote one team across groups to meet common goals and add value

Qualification

Agile project managementEndpoint managementProduction technologyProject management knowledgeMicrosoft Office proficiencyCommunication skillsDocumentation skillsTeam collaborationAdaptability

Required

5+ years of experience using both agile and standard project methodologies

Endpoint management platform (device and applications management systems, virtual desktop technology, etc) knowledge and experience

Production technology (fiber infrastructure, IPTV) knowledge and experience

Manage and deliver projects and small programs comprised of cross-matrixed teams; coordinate activities within the project/program team

Detailed knowledge and proven experience with project management knowledge areas: integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder