Project Manager

Position Overview:

The mission of the Project Management Office (PMO) is to help Hawaiian Airlines achieve its strategic goals by implementing the right projects, the right way, to deliver the right business benefits.

Project Managers are professionals with demonstrated success in the project management field, and who have a desire to continue to hone their project management skills.

Project Managers work under the direction of a Portfolio Manager as part of the Project Management team within the Project Management Office (PMO). At any given point in time, Project Managers will be working with other project managers on a complex, high-visibly
project, independently on a single low/medium complexity project, or multiple low complexity projects concurrently.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Successfully plan and execute projects to achieve intended business benefits
  • Position the project for success by defining a structured delivery approach based on best practices, establishing project governance standards and structures, and defining individual and collective roles and responsibilities
  • Lay out a clear plan for project execution by developing detailed schedules, defining milestones and deliverables, identifying resource requirements, and coordinating day-to-day activities across resources in a matrixed environment
  • Create a cadence for diligent management of project financials by forecasting, monitoring, reporting on, and controlling project costs on an ongoing basis
  • Ensure achievement of the project’s intended business benefits remain paramount by applying an appropriate amount of discipline to evaluate changes to the core aspects of the project that are proposed during execution or arise as the result of project conditions
    (e.g., scope, requirements, timelines, and cost)
  • Proactively minimize the probability of adverse project conditions by establishing risk and issue management procedures, driving the creation and oversight of mitigation plans, and aggressively resolving conflict where needed
  • Communicate the right things about the project at the right time in the right way by developing communication plans, tailoring communications to intended audience(s), and delivering information consistently and in an perceptive manner
  • Provide insight into project health by defining appropriate metrics to measure project performance, comparing actual performance to planned performance on an ongoing basis, identifying root causes of situations that could negatively impact project performance,
    and preparing and delivering executive-level briefings when needed
• Foster relationships across functions and levels of the organization
  • Establish a reputation for collaboration through openness, empathy, maturing situational awareness, employing an objective approach to decision making, and an awareness of politics without getting mired in them
  • Remain composed when project progress, workload, or resource allocations are less than ideal and stress can be sensed across project stakeholders
  • Display resiliency when assignments appear difficult or complex, and when dealing with uncertainty or ambiguity
• Enrich the delivery capabilities and overall performance of the PMO
  • Embody accountability by taking responsibility for individual actions and encouraging others to do the same, and supporting the company’s and department’s strategy and values
  • Promote unity by demonstrating confidence in self and peers, and placing the success of the team over success of the individual
  • Deepen project management expertise by supporting the continuous assessment and improvement of PMO frameworks, processes and practices
  • Identify opportunities for improvement by reviewing projects, either during or post-execution, if needed
  • Support the professional growth of fellow project managers by providing informal leadership, guidance, and mentoring if needed

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of work experience and education
• Past experience: Minimum five years of professional experience, with at least three years of direct work experience in a project management capacity (minimally complex individual projects, or multiple concurrent projects of lesser complexity)
• Structure delivery: Demonstrated use of project management methodologies or frameworks, as well as system development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
• Solve problems and think independently: Ability to identify and structure problems, prioritize issues and solution development, plan and conduct work, process information, and place information in to a relevant context or framework
• Communicate effectively: Deliver clear and concise written and verbal messages in a structured manner, manage differing points of view, tailor communications/style to audience, and craft presentations with quality expected for senior level executives
• Utilize project management tools: Ability to build and maintain project schedules using Microsoft Project; high degree of proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Other: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship; must pass a background check and pre-employment drug test

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification
• Airline or related industry experience

About Hawaiian Airlines

Hawaiian®, the world’s most punctual airline as reported by OAG, has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past 13 years (2004-2016) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer surveys by
Condé Nast Traveler
and
Travel + Leisure
have ranked Hawaiian the highest of all domestic airlines serving Hawai‘i.


Now in its 88th year of continuous service, Hawaiian is Hawai‘i’s biggest and longest-serving airline, as well as the largest provider of passenger air service from its primary visitor markets on the U.S. Mainland. Hawaiian offers non-stop service to Hawai‘i
from more U.S. gateway cities (11) than any other airline, along with service from Japan, South Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides approximately 160 jet flights daily between the Hawaiian Islands, with a
total of more than 200 daily flights system-wide.

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