5-7 years of experience managing enterprise-level projects from start to finish.
Proven ability to handle multiple projects with varying complexities and stakeholder impacts.
Strong knowledge of project management methodologies including scope, schedule, and risk management.
Experience in creating comprehensive project documentation such as charters and integrated plans.
Familiarity with PMO governance and reporting standards.
Excellent facilitation and communication skills, particularly in cross-functional settings.
PMP certification required; Agile or Lean certifications are a plus.
Responsibilities
Assess and prioritize non-program project requests and PMO initiatives.
Develop project charters and recommend delivery approaches based on project complexity.
Maintain a prioritized backlog of assigned work with clear status updates.
Lead projects through execution, monitoring, and closeout phases.
Facilitate meetings and maintain alignment on project priorities and deliverables.
Manage internal PMO projects, including governance and process improvements.
Prepare executive communications summarizing project status and required decisions.
Benefits
Opportunity to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
Engagement in diverse projects that impact organizational efficiency.
Access to professional development and training opportunities.
Collaboration with various departments and stakeholders.
Potential for career advancement within the PMO.
Full Job Description
Manifest Solutions is currently seeking an Enterprise Project Manager for a position in Corpus Christi, TX.
Receive and assess assigned non-program project requests, PMO initiatives, executive assignments, operational improvements, and cross-functional tasks.
Clarify the business need, sponsor, objectives, expected outcomes, scope boundaries, priority, urgency, stakeholders, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and required decisions.
Develop concise project charters or intake documents and recommend an appropriate delivery approach based on complexity, risk, duration, and stakeholder impact.
Maintain an inventory and prioritized backlog of assigned non-program work, including status, owner, target dates, dependencies, and next actions.
Develop integrated project management plans appropriate to each assignment, including scope, schedule, milestones, budget or cost expectations, resources, communications, risks, issues, quality, procurement, change, and stakeholder engagement.
Decompose approved scope into deliverables, work packages, activities, dependencies, acceptance criteria, accountable owners, and target dates.
Establish practical baselines and measurement approaches for schedule, cost, deliverables, and benefits where applicable.
Coordinate planning with business owners, PMO resources, finance, technology, engineering, operations, procurement, suppliers, and other contributors as required.
Lead assigned projects and initiatives through execution, monitoring, control, transition, and closeout.
Coordinate work across functions and suppliers, clarify responsibilities, facilitate decisions, and maintain alignment on priorities and deliverables.
Facilitate working sessions, project reviews, issue-resolution meetings, and sponsor updates with agendas, decisions, and action tracking.
Escalate material barriers, overdue decisions, resource conflicts, scope uncertainty, and forecast impacts with recommended response options.
Manage PMO internal projects such as governance implementation, reporting improvements, process rollout, onboarding, tool adoption, documentation, data-quality improvements, and organizational readiness activities.
Coordinate implementation of approved PMO standards, templates, control gates, reporting cadences, and process changes across affected stakeholders.
Support transition of outputs from process designers, technical writers, schedulers, analysts, or technology partners into operational use.
Monitor adoption and completion of agreed actions and identify additional support required for sustainable implementation.
Maintain clear scope boundaries and prevent uncontrolled expansion of assigned work.
Develop and maintain milestone schedules, look-ahead plans, dependencies, and critical deliverable dates using client-approved tools.
Track approved budgets, forecasts, commitments, invoices, or resource usage when financial management is part of the assignment.
Maintain risk and issue registers with probability, impact, response actions, owners, due dates, and escalation status.
Document proposed changes, assess impact to scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, and benefits, and route changes through the applicable approval process.
Identify sponsors, business owners, customers, contributors, approvers, affected stakeholders, and external dependencies for each assignment.
Develop and execute stakeholder and communication plans appropriate to project complexity and impact.
Coordinate suppliers and internal service providers against defined deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria, actions, and reporting expectations.
Prepare concise executive communications that identify current status, accomplishments, decisions needed, risks, issues, changes, and forecast impacts.
Provide weekly or monthly project and non-program portfolio reporting according to PMO cadence.
Maintain a consolidated view of assigned work showing health, milestone status, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and leadership actions.
Confirm deliverable acceptance, operational ownership, document retention, open-item disposition, and final stakeholder communications before closure.
Support benefits tracking and post-implementation review where success measures and accountable benefit owners have been defined.
Required Qualifications
Demonstrated experience managing enterprise, cross-functional, operational, technology-enabled, or business transformation projects from initiation through closeout.
Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and special initiatives that vary in scope, complexity, duration, and stakeholder impact.
Strong working knowledge of project management practices for scope, schedule, cost, risk, issue, change, quality, procurement, communications, stakeholder, and benefits management.
Demonstrated ability to create project charters, integrated plans, schedules, budgets, RAID logs, decision logs, executive reports, and closeout packages.
Experience working within or closely with a PMO and applying standard governance, control gates, templates, reporting cadences, and change-control requirements.
Strong facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, written communication, executive presentation, and cross-functional coordination skills.
Ability to organize ambiguous assignments, establish structure quickly, and drive decisions and deliverables without unnecessary administrative burden.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and project planning or work-management tools.
Experience within utility, capital construction, infrastructure, engineering, operations, finance, or regulated environments preferred.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent required; Agile, change-management, Lean, or process-improvement credentials preferred.
