Project Management Intern at INIT Innovations in Transportation, Inc. in Seattle, Washington

Job Description:

INIT provides sophisticated Intelligent Transportation Systems for Public Transit Authorities, including Fleet Management, Real-time Passenger Information, and Fare Collection Solutions. INIT employs over 1,000 staff members around the world with a strong focus on IT and engineering.

The key to INIT’s success is our committed team of employees. We view our staff as the main source of potential to deliver our competitive edge. A position with INIT offers you not only challenging tasks, but also the opportunity to rapidly develop personal and professional skills with a successful and constantly growing international company.

Specific Job Functions:

• Help with tracking project milestones and their dependencies.


• Help organize JIRA deliverables and how they relate to milestones.


• Assist the PMs with following up on repetitive tasks.


• Assist in following up on upcoming and delayed payment milestones.


• Assist the PMs with updating/validating project schedules.


• Create a standard project schedule to be used as the base template for upcoming projects.


• Build reports in MS project for existing project schedules.


• Conduct a proof of concept on merging the various project schedules into a master schedule.


• Help with creating a template for project evaluation with the help of PMs.


• Create standard JIRA and other dashboards to help organize and monitor projects.


• Create standardized schedules and evaluate existing schedules.


• Help create a MS Planner template and organize existing projects to get the process started.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Expertise with MS project and MS project report.


• Willing to work on process improvement initiatives.


• Detailed oriented and focused on documenting the tasks.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Education:

• Current student in an accredited institution working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Project Management related degree.

To learn more, please visit our website at initusa.com. 

INIT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER 

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