Senior Project Manager – Digital & IS

Gulf Coast Automation Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Digital & IS to manage multiple healthcare IT projects. The role involves overseeing project scope, objectives, and governance while mentoring junior project managers and ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple concurrent projects from initiation through closure
• Define project scope, objectives, milestones, budgets, and success metrics with sponsors and stakeholders
• Establish and facilitate project governance to ensure leadership alignment and issue resolution
• Act as a liaison between IT and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic goals
• Develop project plans, communication plans, schedules, and budgets using standard PM tools
• Estimate, plan, and manage project costs and resources to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery
• Identify project dependencies, critical paths, risks, and mitigation strategies
• Proactively manage scope, schedule, and resource changes, escalating when necessary
• Facilitate regular project meetings and provide clear, actionable status reporting
• Track and report project progress, risks, and next steps to senior leadership
• Resolve issues and conflicts or escalate appropriately
• Collaborate with organizational performance improvement teams
• Coach, mentor, and motivate project team members and contractors
• Conduct lessons learned sessions and contribute to continuous improvement and PM best practices
• Support the development and maintenance of project management standards, tools, and processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Healthcare, or a related field
• 6+ years of hands-on project management experience
• Strong working knowledge of formal project management methodologies
• PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma certification (required within one year of hire, if not already obtained)
• Demonstrated experience leveraging Lean process improvement methodologies
• Advanced organizational, analytical, and communication skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficiency with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Outlook) and project management software
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of an organization
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or guiding junior project managers
• Flexibility to occasionally work outside normal business hours to meet project deadlines