Job Description

Start Date: 2024-04-01

End Date: 2025-03-31

Client: Ministry of Transportation

Position: RQ06390/ RQ06362 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Location: 87 Sir William Hearst Ave. Toronto, Ontario M3M 0B4; 301 St Paul street , St. Catherines

Supplier Comments

MSP Notes

3 days onsite per week is required

Please only submit candidate with more than 10 years of PROJECT management experience.

Shortlisting Date: Dec 12 at 3:00 pm EST

Maximum number of Candidate Submissions: 3

Must haves:

• 10+ years of project management on enterprise projects including managing scope, risk, resources, schedules, and costs
• Oracle Database, Unix (Solaris, AIX, Linux), and Windows (Server) Operating Platforms,
• WebLogic and Microsoft IIS Web/Application Servers and Mainframe applications

Project Manager/Leader

Description

The Project Manager/Leader will be responsible for the following activities and deliverables:

Assisting project manager(s) with project statements, resource planning, status reporting,

and monitoring status of deliverables.

• Assisting project manager(s) in the identification, preparation and tracking of project change requests, reviewing the requests to ensure all impacts are identified and estimates are reasonable
• Assist project manager in Stakeholder management, gathering & documenting requirements, documenting the project plan, strategy and implementation plan as per the Ministry standards
• Creating and maintaining project schedules (Work Breakdown Structures) using Planview
• Coordinating project meetings (e.g. steering committee, team meetings), including issuing of agendas, scribing minutes and following up on action items with the project team
• Generating and publishing project reporting (status reports with schedule information, milestones, dependencies, issues, risks, change requests, financials, metrics, etc)
• Preparing project presentations and communications, at the direction of the project manager(s)
• Ability to document compliance report
• Managing overall program/projects budget and expenditures
• Supporting program/projects orientation for new staff and consultants assigned to the project
• Transferring knowledge to designated TSSDB staff
• Regular review of all actual expenses to budgets, which includes tracking and monitoring of monthly expense accruals, and perform reconciliation of expenditures against budget.
• Create and maintain a summary report of expenditures for Sr. PM.
• Assist in the development of Quality Management, Change Management, Issues & Risk Management plans, Communication plan and Project Charters
• Monitor project deliverables and documentation for quality and ensure standards are followed
• Review of current computing and network environments
• Ensure timely communication with various internal and external stakeholders All PM Services
• Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Co-ordinate with ITS Project Managers as required
• Release Management tasks related to the maintenance deliverables

Skill Set Requirements

• Experience in Program and Project Management
• Managing multiple concurrent tasks in a multi-tiered application development environment with proven record for meeting strict deadlines by coordinating development/testing, UAT and Production environments
• Selecting and establishing project management methodologies
• Knowledge of PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standards (DSS) compliance Requirements v3.2.1
• Ideally, shall have experience working on PCI Compliance projects with first-hand knowledge
• Shall have at minimum five years of experience in conducting pre-site PCI Compliance audits within the Ontario Government
• Experience working with Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) in obtaining organization PCI Compliance Ideally, experience with MTO business policies and processes as relates to MTO PCI Compliance
• Demonstrated ability to develop successful relationships with high level stakeholders including executives and managing 3rd party vendors
• Establishment and/or management of information resource management functions in large or medium sized organizations
• Managing the governance, change management and implementation activities associated with large IT projects
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of support services
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; oral and written communication skills; inter-personal and negotiation skills
• Experience with Ontario Public Sector (OPS) Architecture standards and Enterprise Architecture Review process.
• Knowledge of Technical Architecture & experience with OPS gating and checkpoint Processes
• Knowledge of and experience with tools and techniques for planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling IT projects schedules, plans and costs
• Demonstrated experience identifying issues/risks and providing the proper mitigation Strategies
• Knowledge of and experience with monitoring and reporting on project progress and delivery using, Planview, Share-Point and Visual Process are optional assets
• Knowledge of and experience with maintaining a central repository of project schedules, plans, reporting and deliverables
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Experience with OPS Unified I & IT Project Methodology (UPM) and project gating processes.
• Ability to produce a variety of business documents (in MS Office) that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation (including MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Visio)
• Demonstrated experience with MS project
• Experience with the Ministry of Transportation, Transportation Safety Division architecture applications, database and systems.

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Management and technical documentation - 45%

• 10+ years of project management on enterprise projects including managing scope, risk, resources, schedules, and costs
• 10+ years of experience in the creation of project documentation
• Experience with recommending revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction for published material, existing guides, documentation, and framework

Technical Knowledge - 25%

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with I&IT Project management frameworks
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the following computing environments:
• Oracle Database, Unix (Solaris, AIX, Linux), and Windows (Server) Operating Platforms,
• WebLogic and Microsoft IIS Web/Application Servers and Mainframe applications

Tools and process - 25%

• Experience with the use of tools for the creation, distribution, and maintenance of project documentation
• Experience with completing a cost-benefit analysis

Public Sector Experience - 5%

• Experience in working in accordance with policies and procedures of Ontario Public Service would be an asset

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