Ops IT/OT Project Manager

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Project Manager Job Description

Dow has an exciting opportunity for an IT/OT Project Manager located in Midland, Freeport, Houston, or any Dow Hub Location in the North America (U.S. & Canada). Will also consider, Terneuzen, NLD.

The Project Manager leads cross functional project teams that deliver work process and technology solutions. The Project Manager leads project planning and management throughout the project lifecycle, and is accountable for delivering projects on time, within budget, mitigating risk and executing effective change management.

As an IT/OT Project Manager, you will help improve productivity, streamline work processes, ensure successful implementation, and improve our project cost and schedule predictability.

You will manage the critical path of work process & technology projects as well as the overall delivery of solutions into successful support modes. You will also escalate issues which cannot be resolved at the project level to our leadership team.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Execution

• Work with the Project Team to determine Methodology and Establish Project Timeline.
• Lead COMPASS Session for Project Team and set expectations for the Project.
• Develop and review Project Estimates
• Create project plan and tracking metrics through all project phases (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closure)
• Measure and monitor progress, including phase reviews and deliverable reviews and sign offs.
• Actively manage action register, including timely deliverable review and signoffs
• Work with Project Team and Stakeholders to ensure a support plan for Run the Business (Transition from Project to Maintain)

Project Management

• Manage the overall schedule for project delivery.
• Manage dependencies across projects in the program.
• Manage integration with other projects and business areas.
• Manage relationships with all suppliers and subcontractors (monitor progress/adherence to schedule).
• Manage budget forecasting and cost control for the project.
• Manage project issues and escalate as required.
• Ensure project follows methodology/approach to deliver solution.
• Ensure that Project Deliverables are being created.
• Support teams on scope change request and schedule implications.
• Ensure that business partner expectations are understood and managed correctly.
• Performing project and work arrangement tasks.
• Completing project performance reports.
• Ensure that our Project Documentation Archiving Strategy is utilized at the end of the project.

Community and Network

• Plan, Prepare, and Facilitate Community of Practice Meetings
• Lead Training Sessions for Functional Project Manager Network

Procurement Work Process

• Serve as connector and team expert on the IT/OT Procurement Work Process
• Ensure that all project related purchasing is executed in accordance with our IT/OT Procurement Work Process

Project Management Work Process

• Ensure that Projects are entered and updated within Planview
• Ensure that Projects are adhering to the spend limits and being orchestrated through Project and Expense Review Board as needed.
• Provide continuous improvement to our Project Management Work Process
• Ensure Project Adherence to the Digital Operations Operating Model

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree or relevant military experience at a U.S. E6 rank or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or higher.
• 6+ years relevant work experience including project management.
• The ability to work legally in the country for which you are applying. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A degree discipline in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering is Preferred
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Project Management Professional certification.
• Experience with Planview
• Basic SAP Skills, and ability to quickly learn how to view project related cost data.

Your Skills:

• Project management: Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. The primary constraints are scope, time, budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives.
• Leadership: Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide followers or other members of an organization.
• Change Management: Change management is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change.
• Operations: Operations are the business activities that a firm engages in to convert materials into finished products or services, sell them to customers, and earn a profit.
• Strategic Planning: Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.
• Program Management: Program management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance. In practice and in its aims, program management is often closely related to systems engineering, industrial engineering, change management, and business transformation.
• Risk Management: Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
• Interpersonal Relationships : Interpersonal skills refer to the ability to communicate, collaborate, and build positive relationships with others. They include active listening, empathy, conflict resolution, and teamwork.

Additional notes:

• This position does not offer relocation assistance.

Benefits What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
  • Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
  • Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
• Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Groups (ERG) participation.
• Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
• On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
• Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
  • Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
  • Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
  • Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the worlds leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com .

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com .

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