Senior Automation Project Manager

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Are you ready to join an innovative team where you will have direct influence on game-changing strategies and solutions for one of the world’s largest food companies? Looking for a role where you can combine your passion for automation, process optimization, and an interest in all things technical? Wanting to be both strategic and hands-on? Thrive on partnering with talented colleagues and delivering as a team? If so … keep reading!

The Automation Methods and Optimization team is a start-up team at Tyson Foods that is responsible for identifying automation and process improvement opportunities, performing financial modeling, driving the automation roadmap, and executing automation projects. We will also define and facilitate a governance model to ensure we leverage Tyson's full scale as a Fortune 100 company as we engage external partners and suppliers, simplify our automation solution catalog, and help streamline supportability and solution maintenance.

The role of the Senior Project Manager will have an exciting mix of both strategic ground-breaking work as well as hands-on project leadership. While managing one or more key initiatives, you will help lead the definition of PMO processes, manage budget and spend for our portfolio, mentor more junior project managers, and be our lead in cross-organization project planning and resource interlock. If you love bringing order and structure to ambiguous environments and streamlining project management processes, this may be the role for you.

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of projects that span one or multiple lines of business

Provide leadership for project teams by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones

Lead overall Budget/Spend tracking and controls for the Methods and Optimization team

Manage either SCRUM/Agile or Waterfall initiatives making use of standards tools, processes, and approach

May oversee a program with multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives

Help define improved PMO practices, processes, and governance and lead the interlock with other PMO teams

Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by key stakeholders

Coach, mentor, motivate and provide feedback to more junior project managers

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, Engineering, or another related field

6 years of experience working in roles related to project management

PMI PMP Certified and/or Certified Scrum Master

Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt is a plus

Expertise on standard project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Scrum/Agile tools (e.g. JIRA), Project Planning tools (e.g. Planisware), etc.

Excellent skills in standard computer software including spreadsheet and presentation software

Advanced problem solving skills with the ability to operate in complex situations, break them down, and work with others to define the path out

Ability to clearly “tell the story” and tailor your messaging to partners, leadership, and stakeholders including executive levels of leadership

Experience having worked in ambiguous environments where you have helped bring organization and predictability through the use of processes, standards, and governance

Proven ability to mentor and develop team members to grow their impact on the organization

Build strong relationships with leadership, peers, and partners in order to collectively deliver on our overall organizational strategies.

Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and engineering

Hands-on experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall

Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills

Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands

Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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Company info

Tyson Foods, Inc.
Website : https://www.tysonfoods.com/