Consultant Position Description



POSITION TITLE: Consultant

REPORTING TO: V.P. of Consulting Services - directly
Client Executive(s) - dotted line

THE COMPANY:

Founded in 1983, Project Success, Inc. (formerly YCA) is a training and consulting firm that drives project success for a diverse global client base. PSI delivers the knowledge, skills, tools and systems to plan and execute projects that achieve targeted results. We employ project management procedures, organizational approaches software tools, practical training courses in the technical and behavioral aspects of project management and consulting assistance in planning and controlling actual projects to meet the multiple needs of our clients. PSI allows companies to gain strategic advantage by acquiring the ability to complete projects consistently on-time, on-budget and to specification. Our services have broad applications, but are particularly critical with respect to strategic projects, product development and introduction, information systems development and implementation, marketing initiatives, facilities development and business process re-engineering. Projects are both domestic and international in scope.

SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

PSI Consultants are expected to facilitate and improve client project teams through the delivery of project management strategies, tools, methodologies and training. It is expected that consultants will continually expand their professional capabilities such that they can more broadly and positively impact client companies.

Responsibilities include:

•Introduce, implement and leverage the capabilities of various project management software tools (Microsoft Project and Oracle’s Primavera Products).

•Develop project charters that concisely define project scope, objectives, major stakeholders, constraints, assumptions and risks.

•Facilitate work breakdown structure development, which includes team analysis of project work content, breakdown and definition of manageable activities and allocation of responsibilities to individual team members.

•Guide the creation of project networks. Specifically, develop logic diagrams illustrating precedence relationships among activities.

•Assess and prescribe activity durations and network schedules to determine project length, component timing and critical paths.

•Employ complex schedule compressing techniques. Utilize established and intuitive schedule crashing methods as required to meet project deadlines and to optimize the relationship between the costs of performing activities more quickly versus the costs of extending project durations.

•Lead and facilitate project update meetings.

•Generate reports and other information to document project programs, procedures and performance.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Minimum of five to seven years of progressive experience in a manufacturing environment is required. Relevant professional background possibilities include product development and introduction, re-engineering or core process redesign, facility start-up, equipment installation, information technology development and implementation or marketing program development. It is imperative for this individual have solid project management experience in one or more of these areas. Strong leadership, communication and facilitation abilities are the essence of this position, and strong technical and computer skills are a must.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

75% travel – 3 weeks a month

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

PSI desires professionals with excellent communication and relationship building skills. This executive is expected to be a mentor that inspires trust, commitment and results in both PSI and its client companies. The successful candidate must be a good listener with keen analytical skills that can serve as an example of honesty, integrity and effort. This person should be a student of industry and someone that enjoys learning as much as teaching. Initiative, confidence and charisma will be relevant professional characteristics in every client engagement. This individual must be a team player, a builder of cooperative relationships and excited to join an organization that is entrepreneurial, collaborative and collegial.

EDUCATION:

A Bachelors degree in Engineering or Technical degree is required. Masters work or additional training is a plus.


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