Technical Project Manager (Restaurant Technology & Network Deployments)

Project Manager Required Skills & Experience: 5+ years of project management experience supporting technical infrastructure, deployment, or implementation initiatives. Experience managing multi-site technology rollouts, including restaurant, retail, hospitality, or similar distributed environments. Strong understanding of network infrastructure deployment processes and site-readiness activities. Hands-on experience using Jira and Smartsheet to manage project plans, dependencies, and technical workstreams. Experience coordinating third-party vendors and field deployment activities. Experience managing hardware deployment, procurement coordination, and implementation schedules. Strong risk management, organizational, and stakeholder communication skills. Ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams while maintaining attention to detail. Nice to Have Skills & Experience: Experience supporting restaurant technology or retail technology deployments. Background working with network infrastructure, telecommunications, or field technology implementations. Experience coordinating new-site openings or large-scale location transitions. PMP, Scrum Master, or similar project management certification. Experience working within highly cross-functional technical environments. Job Description: We are seeking a highly organized and technically minded Project Manager to support the rollout of restaurant technology infrastructure as part of a large-scale transition initiative. This role will focus on coordinating the network, hardware, vendor, and site-readiness activities required to successfully open and transition restaurant locations. The ideal candidate understands how network infrastructure components come together in a multi-site environment and has experience managing technical deployments across numerous locations. While this is not a hands-on engineering role, the successful candidate must be comfortable working closely with network teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to drive execution and keep complex rollout activities on schedule. This role is hybrid in Atlanta, GA. 1-2 onsite days per month. Key Responsibilities: Technical Rollout Coordination: Drive restaurant-level technology deployment activities supporting new restaurant openings and transition initiatives. Coordinate network infrastructure, hardware, vendor, and site-readiness workstreams to ensure locations are prepared for opening and operational milestones. Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, and milestone tracking in Smartsheet. Proactively identify schedule impacts, project risks, and execution challenges while driving timely resolution. Network Infrastructure Planning: Partner closely with network and infrastructure teams to coordinate deployment activities. Track network-related work in Jira and align technical milestones with overall project schedules. Understand network rollout processes, equipment requirements, and site-readiness dependencies. Coordinate activities such as circuit installations, network enhancements, cabling, data port expansions, and other infrastructure-related work. Vendor & Field Logistics Management: Serve as a primary point of coordination for vendors supporting restaurant technology deployments. Schedule and track vendor activities, ensuring resources arrive on-site according to project timelines. Coordinate installation partners, service providers, and field teams throughout the deployment lifecycle. Assist with vendor onboarding, scheduling, communication, and escalation management as needed. Equipment & Deployment Readiness: Coordinate hardware and equipment ordering activities in partnership with internal teams. Track deployment readiness milestones to ensure equipment, resources, and vendors are aligned with opening schedules. Monitor delivery timelines and escalate issues that could impact implementation schedules. Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular updates to project leadership and business stakeholders. Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment across technical, operational, and deployment workstreams. Facilitate communication between project teams, vendors, network engineering teams, and restaurant stakeholders. Contract/Contract-to-Hire Roles: Compensation: $65 to $75/hr. Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.