IT Project Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p>We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.</p> <p>As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.</p> <p>When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.</p></div><p>This position sits at the intersection of <strong>Information Technology / Information Management (IM), industrial operations, engineering, and business functions</strong>. The Project Manager will be responsible for driving IT-related projects from planning through execution, coordinating multiple stakeholders, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring projects are delivered according to agreed scope, cost, quality, and schedule.</p> <p>The ideal candidate has previous experience working in <strong>aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, engineering, or another complex industrial environment</strong>, and understands how IT solutions support production and operational processes.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and coordinate <strong>IT / Information Management projects</strong> supporting the Kinston site and its business operations.</li> <li>Manage projects from initiation through delivery, including scope, planning, milestones, resources, budget, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.</li> <li>Act as the primary coordination point between <strong>business stakeholders, manufacturing/engineering teams, IT teams, vendors, and management</strong>.</li> <li>Understand business and operational requirements and translate them into structured IT project activities and priorities.</li> <li>Maintain project roadmaps, schedules, action plans, RAID logs, decision logs, and delivery plans.</li> <li>Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies early and drive mitigation and escalation when required.</li> <li>Ensure effective communication and visibility regarding project progress, priorities, blockers, and decisions.</li> <li>Prepare and present project status reporting, KPIs, delivery performance, workload/capacity information, and management updates.</li> <li>Lead project governance routines including steering meetings, project reviews, working sessions, action follow-up, and escalation.</li> <li>Monitor project performance against <strong>quality, cost, delivery, and schedule objectives</strong>.</li> <li>Coordinate technical and functional contributors across local, regional, and potentially global teams.</li> <li>Ensure projects comply with client IT/IM governance, architecture, cybersecurity, change management, and project management processes.</li> <li>Support deployment, transition, change management, and operational readiness activities when applicable.</li> <li>Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices, tools, templates, and governance processes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven experience as an <strong>IT Project Manager, IT Program Coordinator, or senior IT PMO</strong>