Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Looking for a strong, personable PM with a strong understanding of infrastructure technologies. Responsible for working on a diverse range of small to mid-size projects. Projects may be technical in nature and have implications and impacts associated with the enterprise wide systems/system applications, network, and telecommunication/product devices. This position will manage work utilizing standard project management methodologies, processes/procedures - projects have clear start/end dates; specific manpower resource allocations; budgets and are clearly identified as a ''project'' by the business.

JOB DUTIES:
Creates and drives project status reporting and meetings as communication and management tools to ensure project health and to provide transparency to risks and issues that require stakeholder support and action. Establishes and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders.
Identifies in a proactive mode potential risks to the project that are likely but possible and putt in place risk mitigation plans to alleviate them should they occur using team as a validation point.
Creates a project schedule through defining needed activities, sequencing, resourcing, estimation of durations and resources; validates schedule with team. Uses the schedule as a communication and management tool to ensure project stays on schedule, making needed adjustments to address project exceptions.
Works with knowledge and project team input to accurately define Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and scope definition to provide a common understanding of the project. Uses planning, estimating and controlling skills to ensure scope creep does not occur. Can manage and help others to understand the impact of change.
Leads cross-functional or multi-team effort in defining budgeting process for a project, provide through knowledge and team input initial estimates to drive the business case, define monthly budget forecasts, collect actuals from finance, identifies areas of potential variance early in the forecasting process, and provides an accurate report on variance to leadership.
Plans, identifies, and documents project quality standards. Works with stakeholders and project team to align deliverables with requirements. Works with project team to understand customer experience and minimizes negative impact to customer. Adheres and manages to standard processes and change boards. Works with project team and stakeholders to establish decision points and quality control points to ensure project deliverables meet expectations. Assesses quality of documentation and deliverables. Mitigates issues through validation and test using both QAT and UAT methodologies. Works with stakeholders to make informed decisions on quality factors that can be compromised. Communicates any gaps in design and sets realistic expectations on deliverables. Follows through and closes all of defined exceptions.
Validates prepared statement of work, RFIs and RFPs per project objectives and manages vendor against stated deliverables and communicates and ensure compliance with company standards and values. Proactively identifies and recommends improvements to standard processes and procedures. Actively participates in the implementation of changes to standard processes and procedures.
Communicate with IT App Support and Engineering teams to identify application migration plan.
Will work closely with teams managing maintenance windows.
Work with delivery teams daily.
Some night and weekend work for deployments/Will offer Flex time.
Will be working on replacing older load balancers with new load balancers.
Schedule meetings with these teams for planning and define the process.
Facilitate all associated calls.
Provide weekly follow up with these teams.
Identify high level schedule/migration date.
Follow-up and track issues/action items, send meeting agenda/minutes.
Schedule and Coordinate NOD (Night of Deployment) meetings.
Develop SIS (Short Interval Schedule) for Night Of Deployment work.
Work nights as required for migrations.
Attend regular weekly meetings.
Update the Master tracking schedule weekly.
Provide high level status weekly.

SKILLS:

MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:
2-4 years formal project management work experience
Must be proficient and have experience using MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and MS Project and Visio
Working understanding of PMI principles and practices; demonstrated ability to apply PMI principals required
Good written and verbal communication skills; effectively communicates with all employee levels and levels of management.
Ability to identify project impacting issues and work with more senior members of the Project Management team to develop and implement solutions.
Awareness of general accounting practices, related to project management - including budgeting, invoicing, purchase orders, and accounts payable.
Must typically have a background in the project business area assigned, in order to successfully serve as a conduit between the technical functions and the business clients.

QUALITIES:
Manager is seeking fast paced independent minded people who can work within a unified team.
Need a strong people manager who can keep diverse teams on task while meeting business needs.
Must be able to filter out the noise to get the work done. Timelines are very important.
Detail Oriented/follow through.
Self starter/takes initiative.
Outgoing and personable - quick to develop relationship with team members.
Technical background required - primarily hardware oriented.
Quick to pick up on high level plan.