IT Project Manager-Infrastructure

　　Dallas, TX

　　Hybrid

　　Contract

　　$70/hr - $80/hr

　　Dallas, TX company is seeking a IT Project Manager - Infrastructure to join their team for a contract opportunity.

　　Rebuild Americas Infrastructure with our Fortune 200 Materials and Logistics Client.

　　Contract Duration: 12 Months

　　Required Skills & Experience

　　Bachelor’s Degree.

　　Self-motivated, works with appropriate urgency, friendly and assertive.

　　Extremely detailed oriented and organized.

　　Exceptional time management skills.

　　Excellent concise writing and communication skills.

　　Cool, calm, collected and collaborative.

　　Works well under pressure, comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments.

　　Can shift readily between the "big picture" and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each.

　　Develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.

　　Intermediate to Advanced skills with Microsoft Project.

　　Ability to identify and document issues, risks, and problems.

　　Desired Skills & Experience

　　Masters is a plus.

　　Energy experience is a plus.

　　Experience in an Information Technology Environment.

　　Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

　　What You Will Be Doing

　　Ultimately responsible for partnering with Infrastructure management to uphold the project scope and objectives.

　　Able to handle the coordination with vendor to help take the load off the project team and communicate information accurately to project team.

　　Responsible for using Project Management best practice to guide a project with the stakeholders and/or business.

　　Serve as documentation Infrastructure analyst that understands how to use Visio and create diagrams.

　　Deliver projects on budget with desired outcomes.

　　Utilize skills to forecast financials of project to effectively communicate any variance to sponsor and required management.

　　Able to articulate problems, bring the right people together to solve problems of the project and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed—all this with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires.

　　Conduct weekly status reviews with project team and works with project team to obtain updates for weekly status reporting and PowerPoint presentations to include updates on timeline, health of project indicators, accomplishments, and planned items coming up.

　　Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports, stand-ups and/or review sessions to keep team organized and moving forward to successful project closure.

　　Screen projects for risks, actions, issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement.

　　Understand the end-to-end impact along with cross functional impact.

　　Formulate and implement solutions.

　　Project may involve working with multiple vendors and making sure vendor PM aligns to client’s deliverables, SOW, invoicing, and timeline.

　　Work with Financial Analyst to perform validation on financial-related reporting and liaises with project leadership about budget, forecast, accruals and reclassifications that may need to occur on project. With input from project leadership updates project forecast, submits accruals and reclassifications to maintain project financial standards.

　　Monitor project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility with delivery lead.

　　Develop a detailed project plan/schedule to track progress.

　　Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs.

　　Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.

　　Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

　　Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.

　　Create, maintain, and store project documentation and records.

　　Responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices with project team.

　　Excellent communicator that understands frequent, consistent communication helps keep teams aligned and progressing forward with project.

　　Respectful and upholds team dignity throughout project.

　　Encourage and support escalations: communicate to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation issues.

　　Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.

　　Serve as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project.

　　Cultivate the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all a project's stakeholders. This includes executing the proper communication and coordination of cross functional project teams to ensure seamless delivery.

　　Engage in building consensus, developing contingency planning, and providing recommended solutions.

　　Lead project teams in strategic meetings and follow up with meeting minutes.

　　Understand Software Development Lifecycle.

　　Excellent organization skills.

　　Ability to follow client’s governance and utilize required formatting of PowerPoint presentations as required.

　　You will receive the following benefits:

　　Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

　　Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

　　Vision Benefits

　　Health Savings Account (HSA)

　　Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

　　Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

　　Hospital Indemnity Insurance

　　401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

　　Paid Sick Time Leave

　　Legal and Identity Protection Plans

　　Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

　　529 College Saver Plan

　　Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

　　Posted by: Cate Novak

　　Specialization: Project Management