Project Manager III

Role: Project Manager III

Duration: 6 months to start

Location: Remote

Responsible for regularly managing projects with team level integration points. Manages project schedules, cost and quality proactively making recommendations within the project objectives. Leverages technical knowledge, best practices and organizational dynamics to mitigate issues and risks. Drives toward continuous improvement.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establishes and manages project plans across the dimensions of schedule, cost, scope, and quality.

• Records and monitors project actual and forecasted cost against the project budget.

• Across multiple projects understands logical dependencies, identifies critical path, communicates and escalates key tasks to team members accordingly.

• Responsible for proactively identifying variances to plan and developing appropriate mitigation plans.

• Formulates corrective actions when project deliverables deviate from the work plan with the assistance of team members.

• Identifies, solicits and documents specific project risk at initiation using various modes and questioning techniques. Proactively identifies, documents, and communicates risks throughout the project lifecycle, including gaining project stakeholder agreement.

• Engages extended group of stakeholders in communications as appropriate. Validates appropriate level of participation and escalates where needed.

• Tailors the level of communication based on the audience working with the project team to synthesize information.

• Communicates escalations clearly by concisely stating the problem and specific impact to the project.

• Recommend deviation from the standard process, if needed and gain consensus from stakeholders.

• Understands the financial implications of project decisions and can forecast the impact.

• Actively seeks new skills and concepts and can leverage them to improve project deliverables and outcomes.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• 7 to 10 years of IT work experience, including 7 or more years managing IT infrastructure projects

• Related certification preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience

MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

1. Expert Level Understanding of:

• Waterfall methodology, values, and procedures

• Managing detailed capital/expense budgets and reconciling actuals for internal resources and external spend

• Complex projects

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail

• Relevant business software (e.g. Microsoft Office applications, Clarity/PPM, MS Project)

• Experience deploying/upgrading IT infrastructure (i.e. network circuits, routers, switches, servers, m365 tenant migration, databases, large storage, end user hardware, conferencing technology, cloud migrations)

• Experience to handle multiple high priority projects is required.

• Possess the ability to balance a willingness to engage with ideas different from their own, encourage others to express divergent perspectives, the capability to influence, conflict management, and teamwork.

• Highly adaptable to changing environment.

• Situational awareness of when to listen and when to be assertive.

• Experience deploying Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) applications to a large enterprise