Project Manager

Title:  Project Manager
Type: Contract - 6 months
Location:  Birmingham, AL 35203

The Project Manager is responsible for directing the efforts of multiple cross-functional project teams to achieve clearly defined results operating within the agreed upon time, budget, and specifications of each project. The Project Manager is also responsible for managing the expectations, deliverables, and results of all project resources, both internal and external, as related to the specific roles and activities defined in the project workplan. The Project Manager organizes, plans, and directs all project work activities, communicates project status to all roles and levels of project stakeholders, and provides specific performance feedback to the respective resource managers.

CLIENT DETAILS: Our client is an award winning leader within their industry, specializing in energy management. They have been recognized by Computerworld's Top 100 Best Places to Work for several years and Fortune magazine's 2011 list of the World's Most Admired Companies . They offer wonderful benefits packages and healthy work environments for their employees, making them the perfect next step for your IT career.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Lead a project team to devise and maintain a workable scheme to accomplish the need that the project was undertaken to address.
- Collect and analyze project information to determine where the project stands and take corrective action to eliminate negative deviations from the plan.
- Identify, analyze, and respond to risks over the course of the project - including minimizing the consequences of adverse events and maximizing the results of positive events.
- Demonstrate professional written and oral communication skills, communicating project related status information effectively and exhibiting active listening skills.
- Demonstrate ability to "get things done" - including effectively using the formal and informal structures of all organizations involved.
- Encourage and enable resources to work together as a team to accomplish the project and depend on each other for success.
- Manage interactions between the customer, any appropriate external organizations, and the rest of the project team to achieve good customer relations where both parties are enthusiastic about the relationship.
- Demonstrate knowledge of general management practices including finance, accounting, strategic and tactical planning, organizational behavior, managing work relationships through motivation, delegation, supervision, conflict management, and managing personal responsibilities through personal time management and stress management.

REQUIREMENTS:

- BS or BBA in Information Technology related field preferred
- 5-10 years project management experience or demonstrated project management skills - including project planning, project control, and risk management.
- Demonstrated leadership skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of management.
- Ability to build relationships at all levels and work in a team atmosphere.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the project management areas of competency, procedures, and methodology.
- Demonstrated knowledge of project life cycle processes.
- Ability to effectively lead/facilitate project planning and process definition meetings
- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects & tasks simultaneously.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and especially Project.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.

Please contact Britton Burgess

Synergis is a woman-owned company that serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies.  The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. 

From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology.  Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website

Synergis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.