We at Raise are hiring a Project Manager External 1 for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested,

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning and Delivery Support

- Maintain integrated project schedules and detailed work plans under the direction of the Senior Project Manager.
- Track tasks, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource commitments across workstreams.
- Support scope definition, effort estimation, sequencing, and coordination of delivery activities.
- Monitor progress against agreed baselines, identify variances, and upscale emerging concerns promptly.
- Coordinate follow-up with workstream leads to maintain momentum and accountability.

Reporting, Governance, and Project Controls

- Prepare accurate status reports, dashboards, governance packs, and management summaries.
- Maintain RAID and decision logs and follow up with owners on mitigation and closure actions.
- Support governance meetings, tollgates, reviews, and audit-ready project documentation.
- Apply PMO standards, quality expectations, and document-control practices consistently.
- Help define and monitor practical project performance indicators.

Coordination and Stakeholder Communication

- Coordinate meetings, workshops, and working sessions across business, IT, vendors, and external partners.
- Prepare agendas, capture decisions and actions, distribute minutes, and track completion.
- Support clear communication among stakeholders across functions and geographies.
- Assist with stakeholder readiness, change management, communication,



and training coordination activities.
- Build effective working relationships and communicate emerging delivery risks constructively.

Documentation and Continuous Improvement

- Maintain project repositories in SharePoint, PLM360, or other approved collaboration tools.
- Support documentation of requirements, processes, workflows, assumptions, and decisions.
- Improve project templates, trackers, reporting methods, and team ways of working.
- Capture lessons learned and help translate them into practical improvements.

Academic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
- A college diploma or equivalent combination of relevant education and practical project experience may also be considered.
- Foundational project management training or certification, such as CAPM, PRINCE2 Foundation, Agile, or Scrum, is an asset.

Professional Experience

- Approximately 1 to 3 years of experience supporting projects, programs, PMO activities, operations, engineering, IT, manufacturing, or business transformation initiatives. Relevant internships or co-op assignments may be considered as part of this experience.
- Practical experience coordinating meetings,



maintaining plans or trackers, preparing status reports, and following up on actions and deliverables.
- Exposure to cross-functional or multi-stakeholder environments, with demonstrated ability to organize information and manage competing priorities.
- Experience supporting enterprise systems, digital transformation, Product Lifecycle Management, ERP, engineering, manufacturing, or data initiatives is an asset.

Required Skills and Capabilities

- Working knowledge of project management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, issue, dependency, and change control.
- Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and written communication skills.
- Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate reports and presentations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Ability to collaborate effectively, take ownership of assigned work, follow through on commitments, and elevate concerns when needed.
- Attention to detail, sound judgment, curiosity, and the ability to work in a fast-paced matrix setting.

Preferred Skills and Assets

- Exposure to Teamcenter or another Product Lifecycle Management platform.
- Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery approaches.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, Power BI, or comparable planning and reporting tools.
- Awareness of engineering, manufacturing, service, product data, or digital-thread processes.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams or external delivery partners.

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📌 Project Manager External 1 (Montreal)
🏢 Ian Martin Group
📍 Montreal