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Project Leader - (Inver Grove Heights, Mid-West United States, USA)
Company: CHS Inc.
Website: http://www.chsinc.com
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Open Til: 06-Jan-10
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Cooperative
Career Type: Technology
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: 10
Salary: Competitive

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CHS Inc. is a diversified Fortune 200 company providing essential grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers. We have an opportunity at our corporate offices for a Project Leader. 

- Responsible for multiple project management while maintaining high quality deliverables. 
- Manages projects to meet predefined metrics associated with budget, schedule, and quality. 
- Manage all staff involved with projects. This includes both internal and external resources. 
- Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables for all active projects and project teams. 
- Provides technical and analytical guidance to other project leaders and project teams. 
- Works with all other areas of IT to ensure appropriate resource leveling and staffing of projects. 
- Creates detailed project estimates and Statements of Work or assigns to adequate personnel. 
- Works with Project Stakeholders to define project scope, cost, and time objectives and is responsible for those objectives being met. 
- Develops detailed work plans, schedules, resource plans, issue logs and status reports. 
- Assembles project team and assigning individual responsibilities. 
- Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis. 
- Ensures timely problem and issue resolution through appropriate issue escalation criteria. 
- Quantifies, manages, and communicates associated project risks. 
- Manages the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables. 
- Communicates with higher-level staff and/or functional area manager regarding status of specific projects. 
- Responsible for timely communication to project stakeholders and affected business unit staff. 
- Properly adheres to defined Project Management Methodology and Project Change Management Procedures. 
- Provides IT team member performance feedback to respective team member’s manager or develops IT team member performance evaluations for projects with an extended duration. 
- Reviews all “project lessons learned” assessments for continuous improvement of defined Project Management Methodology. 

Qualifications: 
• Minimum of 10 years of industry experience with 4 – 8 years of project management experience. 
• Working knowledge of all phases of a development life cycle 
• Proven track record of successful project management 
• Must be able to maintain quality standards while meeting aggressive schedules 
• Must be able to work on and effectively prioritize multiple projects while maintaining high quality deliverables 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 
• PMI certification a plus 

CHS offers a very competitive salary, annual bonus, 401(K) with match, profit sharing, pension plan, paid time off and a flexible benefits program including medical/dental/vision, disability and life insurance.

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