Senior Consultant

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a Technical field

 

Experience: 10 years with minimum 2 years of management experience (hiring, coaching, mentoring, handling personnel issues, profit/loss responsibility, etc.)

  

Travel: 75% - 3 weeks a month





Company Description:

Founded in 1983, Project Success, Inc. (formerly Young, Clark & Associates) is a training and consulting firm that drives project success for a diverse global client base.  PSI delivers the knowledge, skills, tools, and systems to plan and execute projects that achieve targeted results.  We employ project management procedures, organizational approaches, software tools, practical training courses in the technical and behavioral aspects of project management, and consulting assistance in planning and controlling actual projects to meet the multiple needs of our clients. PSI allows companies to gain strategic advantage by acquiring the ability to complete projects consistently on-time, on-budget and to specification.  Our services have broad applications, but are particularly critical with respect to strategic projects, product development and introduction, information systems development and implementation, marketing initiatives, facilities development, and business process re-engineering.  Projects are both domestic and international in scope. 

 

Position Synopsis: We seek an experienced Project Manager/Senior Consultant to join our national Project Management Consulting firm. The role will supervise and mentor other consultants in planning, facilitating and improving our client project teams. They will do this through the delivery of project management strategies, tools, methodologies and training, either at client sites, or at our Training facility in Atlanta.

Responsibilities: 1. Introduce, implement and leverage the capabilities of various project management software tools (Microsoft Project, Primavera P5, SureTrak) 2. Develop project charters that concisely define project scope, objectives, major stakeholders, constraints, assumptions and risks. 3. Facilitate work breakdown structure which includes team analysis of project work content, breakdown and definition of manageable activities, and allocation of responsibilities to team members. 4. Guide the creation of project networks. Specifically develop logic diagrams illustrating precedence relationship among activities. 5. Employ complex compressing techniques. Utilize established and intuitive schedule crashing methods as required to meet project deadlines and to optimize the relationship between the costs of performing activities more quickly versus the costs of extending project durations. 6. Lead and facilitate project update meetings. 7. Generate reports and other information to document project programs, procedures and performance. 8. Coach and mentor team members, project managers and management.

Job Requirements:

- 10 years in a manufacturing, industrial or technical environment with minimum 2 years of management experience (hiring, coaching, mentoring, handling personnel issues, profit/loss responsibility, etc.) – 75% travel (3 weeks a month) - 4 year Engineering or Technical degree - An advanced degree a plus - Strong communication, facilitation and training skills - Proven leadership skills - Excellent computer and analysis skills – Strong technical writing skills (punctuation, spelling, grammar, etc.) - Solid work experience in project teams in one or more of the following areas: * Product development/introduction * Reengineering/core process redesign * Facility start-up/equipment installation * Major maintenance * IT development/implementation * Marketing program development/implementation



Salary range $80-$95K DOE PSI allows our consultants the flexibility to reside in any area of the country. 75% travel is required (3 weeks per month). If you are interested in pursuing career opportunities with PSI, please submit your resume and salary requirements.