Position Overview:The IT Project Manager plans and delivers business and technology projects across two operating companies, Canal Barge and Marquette Transportation, now aligned under common ownership. The role supports a multi-year integration effort involving migrations, integrations, and new implementations, while keeping modernization and custom development work moving in business lines outside the initial consolidation scope. This is a generalist role by design: the majority of time is spent on delivery, with meaningful contribution to demand intake, requirements definition, and business partner engagement.
Principal Responsibilities:- Plan, schedule, and drive execution of technology aided business projects, system migrations, application integrations, platform implementations, and custom software development, including work accelerated by AI-assisted development.
- Maintain project artifacts scaled to the size and risk of the work: charters, work plans, RAID logs, decision registers, and responsibility assignments.
- Coordinate internal technical resources, business subject matter experts, and third-party vendors against committed scope and dates.
- Manage scope, schedule, budget, and quality; escalate variances with a recommended course of action.
- Own project communications and drive cutover planning, testing coordination, user readiness, and post-implementation stabilization.
- Serve as an intake point for new technology requests, capturing enough definition to support informed sequencing.
- Develop preliminary scope, effort, cost, and benefit views for prioritization discussions with IT and business leadership.
- Maintain portfolio visibility across dependencies, resource contention, and capacity constraints.
- Facilitate requirements elicitation and document processes, functional and non-functional requirements, data needs, and acceptance criteria at a level developers and vendors can build against.
- Build durable relationships with assigned business functions; represent IT credibly to them and their needs faithfully back to IT.
- Partner with business sponsors to perform full business impact change management and management of change.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Three to six years managing IT projects with ownership of full delivery lifecycles, not task coordination alone.
- Direct experience in at least two of: enterprise application implementation, system integration, data migration, or custom software development.
- Proven ability to write clear requirements, plans, and status communications, and to manage third-party vendors against contracted commitments.
- Working command of both traditional and iterative delivery approaches, with the judgment to apply the right one.
- Proficiency with project and work management tooling (monday.com, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or comparable) and Microsoft 365.
- Availability outside of normal office hours when needed, to support the needs of a 24/7, 365-day business.
- Job may require up to 15% travel, in US for short durations, primarily to New Orleans or Houston.
- Preferred: PMP or equivalent certification; experience delivering during a merger or consolidation; business analysis training; background in marine transportation, logistics, or another asset-intensive industry; exposure to legacy application modernization and IT governance.
Marquette offers competitive pay, health, dental & vision insurance, 401K plan with company match, bonus plan, company paid life insurance, short- & long-term disability, flexible spending account, critical illness, accident insurance, and other incentives! 
