Sr IT Project Manager

Job Description

Sr IT Project Manager | Textron

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Textron, located in Augusta, Georgia. Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. manufactures a diverse range of products including golf cars, utility vehicles, professional turf-care equipment, and ground support equipment for various global environments. In this role, you will lead critical IT projects that underpin these operations, ensuring successful technology and business outcomes to support Textron’s product lines and operational efficiency.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Augusta, Georgia, USA

• Team: Information Technology – Individual Contributor
• Mission: This person owns leading large, complex, high-risk, or business-critical IT projects and programs from initiation through closure, ensuring successful business and technology outcomes.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Smartsheet, Power BI, SharePoint, SAP or other enterprise business systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Project Leadership: Lead large, complex, high-risk, or business-critical IT projects and programs from initiation through implementation and closure, with accountability for successful business and technology outcomes.
• Strategy Development: Develop integrated delivery strategies, including scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, governance approaches, and implementation plans across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and manage complex risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints involving business operations, technology, vendors, finances, resources, and organizational readiness.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary delivery leader for project sponsors, business leaders, technical leaders, vendors, and executive stakeholders, providing objective recommendations and decision support.
• Governance and Reporting: Lead project governance, executive status reviews, escalation forums, and decision-making processes that provide clear visibility into performance, risks, milestones, financials, and business outcomes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Management Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field required; in lieu of a bachelor’s degree, nine years of relevant project management, program management, portfolio management, PMO, information technology, or related professional experience may be considered.
• Experience: Five years of experience leading technology projects, programs, or large-scale business initiatives, with demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, and business functions. Experience leading enterprise technology implementations, business transformation initiatives, infrastructure projects, or ERP implementations is required.
• Skills: Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; strong experience with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Smartsheet), reporting and dashboard tools (e.g., Power BI), SharePoint, and SAP or other enterprise business systems. Candidates should be comfortable learning and applying AI-enabled tools responsibly, evaluating AI-generated output with sound judgment, and using AI in line with company policy and ethical standards.
• Bonus: Manufacturing, industrial, or operational business experience preferred, along with PMP, CAPM, Agile, Scrum, or comparable project management certification.