Remote contract Project Manager leading Manitoba public - sector IT projects. Managing delivery, budgets, schedules, procurement, risks, stakeholders, and project closeout.
About the role
- Project Coordinator managing Jira work, vendors, and Agile delivery for Telesat’s satellite user-terminal programs. Supporting schedules, documentation, risks, and cross-functional technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Create well-structured Jira epics, stories, tasks, bugs, and technical-request tickets with clear problem statements, scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, priorities, owners, and supporting technical context
- Administer and maintain Jira projects and boards, including Kanban boards, workflows, backlogs, filters, dashboards, and reporting views
- Drive Jira work items through completion by coordinating follow-up with internal software developers, engineering teams, program stakeholders, and vendors
- Identify stalled work, facilitate resolution of blockers, and escalate issues when required
- Facilitate work intake, backlog review, prioritization, and status-tracking activities with technical leads and program managers
- Establish and maintain action-item registers and Kanban-style action boards; assign owners and target dates, monitor progress, follow up on overdue actions, and confirm closure
- Attend program, vendor, and technical meetings; prepare agendas; capture minutes, decisions, risks, dependencies, and action items; distribute and maintain meeting records
- Coordinate project activities across system engineering, user terminal engineering, software development, program management, product management, commercial teams, and external vendors
- Organize and archive program documentation, decisions, meeting records, and supporting artifacts according to data-management standards
- Support the Program Manager with project schedules, timelines, milestone plans, status reports, risks, and dependencies across vendors, integrators, component developers, and internal teams
Requirements
- The successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods program (CGP)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business management, or a relevant discipline
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in project coordination, program support, software delivery coordination, or a related role within a STEM or technical development environment
- Demonstrated proficiency with Atlassian Jira and Confluence, including creating and managing tickets, administering boards and backlogs, configuring or working within workflows, building filters and dashboards, and tracking work to completion
- Experience supporting Agile software development practices such as Scrum, Kanban, backlog refinement, sprint or increment planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Ability to understand technical discussions and translate them into clear, accurate, and actionable Jira tickets, meeting records, status updates, and follow-up actions
- Experience coordinating work across internal technical teams and external technology vendors
- Strong working knowledge of project-management and reporting tools such as Oracle Primavera and Microsoft Project
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with strong attention to detail and disciplined follow-through
- PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, or comparable project or Agile certification is an asset
- Experience with communications systems, satellite terminals, or other complex technical products is preferred but not required
- Experience with third-party design, software, integration, or manufacturing programs is an asset
Benefits
- Full Time Hire - (FTE with Benefits)
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