CHS Inc. is a diversified Fortune 200 company providing essential grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers.   We have an opportunity at our corporate offices for a Project Leader.

Responsible for multiple project management while maintaining high quality deliverables.  Manages projects to meet predefined metrics associated with budget, schedule, and quality.  Manage all staff involved with projects.  This includes both internal and external resources.  Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables for all active projects and project teams.  Provides technical and analytical guidance to other project leaders and project teams.  Works with all other areas of IT to ensure appropriate resource leveling and staffing of projects.  Creates detailed project estimates and Statements of Work or assigns to adequate personnel.  Works with Project Stakeholders to define project scope, cost, and time objectives and is responsible for those objectives being met.  Develops detailed work plans, schedules, resource plans, issue logs and status reports.  Assembles project team and assigning individual responsibilities.  Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis.  Ensures timely problem and issue resolution through appropriate issue escalation criteria.  Quantifies, manages, and communicates associated project risks.  Manages the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.  Communicates with higher-level staff and/or functional area manager regarding status of specific projects.  Responsible for timely communication to project stakeholders and affected business unit staff.  Properly adheres to defined Project Management Methodology and Project Change Management Procedures.  Provides IT team member performance feedback to respective team member’s manager or develops IT team member performance evaluations for projects with an extended duration.  Reviews all “project lessons learned” assessments for continuous improvement of defined Project Management Methodology. 

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of industry experience with 4 – 8 years of project management experience.


• Working knowledge of all phases of a development life cycle


• Proven track record of successful project management


• Must be able to maintain quality standards while meeting aggressive schedules


• Must be able to work on and effectively prioritize multiple projects while maintaining high quality deliverables


• Excellent oral and written communication skills


• PMI certification a plus

CHS offers a very competitive salary, annual bonus, 401(K) with match, profit sharing, pension plan, paid time off and a flexible benefits program including medical/dental/vision, disability and life insurance.