Project Manager (PM) Roles and Responsibilities

• Planning, scheduling, running build-season
• Analogous roles: First Officer, Project Manager (industry)
• Responsibility - Overall technical project execution: finish robot on schedule with best possible results, track award/application due dates and ensure technical support is provided.
• Authority - All technical and systems leads are directly responsible to the Project Manager including reporting status at least weekly, flagging concerns, meeting schedule milestones, and working with PM to resolve schedule and risk issues.
• Duties: work with systems and technical leads to develop project schedule w/suitable software such as ​ProjectLibre
• Identifies project milestones and dependencies
• Update/track schedule throughout the build season
• Identify and mitigate risks as early as possible
• Keep leads and rest of team informed of schedule