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Curtiss-Wright Corporation · 21 hours ago

Scrum Master / Project Coordinator

Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$76K/yr - $110K/yr

4+ years exp

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a leading company in critical-function machining solutions for the United States Navy and the commercial nuclear utility industry. They are seeking a Scrum Master/Project Coordinator to lead Sprints and high-performing teams, ensuring effective product delivery and Agile coaching.

AerospaceCommercialManufacturing

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Coordinate Scrum Events to ensure smooth workflow and successful project execution

Responsible for coaching, managing, mentoring, and removing impediments

Utilize appropriate tools, metrics and techniques to successfully guide progress against the Sprint Plan

Execute on the product roadmap with the team and assist with communications of product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization

Assist with maintaining and prioritizing the product and sprint backlog balancing stakeholder requirements

Provide Agile coaching for Scrum teams to ensure adoption and improvement of Scrum practices, process and desired outcomes

Act as the primary point of contact regarding updates, concerns, and queries for Sprints

Establish guidelines for project communications

Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution and consensus with stakeholders and team members

Develop concise status reports and communicate progress, risks, and any necessary changes regularly with stakeholders

Define scope, objectives, and sprint deliverables in collaboration with the team and stakeholders

Collaborate with Product Architects to ensure solution alignment with roadmap and integration points

Facilitate and lead sprint planning, daily meetings, reviews and demos, and release meetings with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and process engineers

Collaborate with the team to continuously review business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables while identifying opportunities and risks

Assist with user interviews as necessary to help develop use cases and user stories

Conduct testing with the team, identifying and tracking defects and updating proper documentation

Initiate and lead the stage gates necessary for sprint releases

Drive the communication and change plans for each sprint or product release to ensure success

Ensure readiness of user training materials and scheduled training to support implementation and adoption success

Follow internal SDLC framework guidelines

Track all risks, issues, actions, and decisions

Assist team to identify and communicate risks and mitigation plans early in the sprint

Address and resolve impediments that prevent progress with planned Sprint goal

Escalate significant challenges to stakeholders and work with them to resolve them promptly

Ensure quality assurance standards are met throughout the development and implementation phases

Ensure documentation is created and updated throughout the design, development, and sprint release

Partner with manager to ensure adherence to process and development standards

Enable repeatable processes for future Sprints

Drive continuous improvement through facilitation of retrospectives, ensuring teams effectively prioritize, plan and execute on improvement ideas

Develop and maintain tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment

Qualification

Scrum Master experienceAgile MethodologyProject ManagementBusiness AnalysisTechnical SkillsCommunicationOrganizationLeadershipCollaborationProblem SolvingTime Management

Required

Due to DoD requirements, candidates must be US citizens

Must be able to obtain and maintain DOD security clearance

Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience; Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration/Management or related field

Familiarity with Manufacturing or Engineering systems or process related experience is required

Demonstrated career experience: 2 years business analysis or product or software design / development

Demonstrated career experience: 2 years project and/or team coordination, or related

Demonstrated career experience: 1 year as a Scrum Master