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.
- Maintain project plans, milestone schedules, action logs, decision logs, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and deliverable status.
- 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.
- Complete project closeout records, lessons learned, outcome summaries, and transition plans.
- 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.
