Lightship Security
Highlights of the Job
We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team and help run our expanding operations. Someone comfortable leading in a high growth environment, who loves client-facing roles and has the soft skills to guide an internal team as well as our clients. Sound good? Here’s a little more about the job:
Key Responsibilities
- Guiding clients through their certification by teaching them the process, managing their deliverables and expectations, and ensuring clients are kept informed with frequent, contextual communication
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
- Analyze, implement, and continually improve organizational processes and project delivery work to ensure great product certification outcomes for our growing list of clients
- Develop, implement, and review operational policies and procedures
- Help promote a company culture that encourages top performance and where the best idea wins
- Work with senior management team
The Ideal Candidate
To excel at Lightship, you have a demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively on teams and are also an energetic self-starter with the self-motivation to work independently. You have excellent oral and written communication skills, and can count time management, problem solving, and managing multiple priorities as your strengths. You also share a dedication to Lightship’s core values: service, teamwork, innovation, quality, and integrity.
What You Bring
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or a related field
- 2-5 years of project management experience in a service-based organization
Skills
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Experience with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline
- Experience working in an environment where problem-solving is required
Bonus, but not required
- Experience with Microsoft Project and/or Mavenlink
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Knowledge of FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, and other related standards
What’s in it for you?
- Health & Wellness: Staying healthy is important; we provide health, dental, life, and disability insurance
- Development Opportunities: We value our employee career development by offering professional support, coaching, training reimbursement program, etc.
- Social: We enjoy getting together at various company events
- Culture: Come join our innovative, collaborative, and dynamic environment
- Flexibility: We try to accommodate real-life as much as possible and know that work is just a part of our daily lives
The successful candidate will work from our office in Ottawa, ON.
Lightship is an equal opportunity employer. Accommodations will be provided at all stages of the hiring process. We ask applicants to make their needs known in advance.
We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No agencies, please.