Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager
Rate: $76 per hour
Employment Type: Temp-to-Hire Resource, W-2
Duration: Now – September 2024
Location: Hybrid role with requirement to be onsite Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Columbus, OH. Local candidates only.

Scope of Services:

As a Project Manager overseeing a telecommunications project, your role is pivotal in driving the successful delivery of complex initiatives. You'll be instrumental in developing comprehensive project proposals and estimates, conducting rigorous quality reviews, and implementing effective issue and risk management strategies. Utilizing advanced project management methodologies, including waterfall, agile, and SDLC, you will forecast, plan, estimate, and meticulously track project delivery and budget. With over 7 years of experience, you'll bring leadership excellence, steering a diverse project team through requirements definition, development, testing, and final delivery. Your responsibilities extend to facilitating collaboration across multiple functions, serving as a role model for teamwork, and managing relationships between customers, IT environment providers, and service provider personnel. Additionally, your role involves providing transparent status reporting to leadership teams, including insights into potential impacts on scope, budget, risk, and resources. Your extensive knowledge of project cost management, resource capacity planning, and change management approaches will contribute to the overall success of the projects. Certifications in project management (PMP) and Agile methodologies are expected, with familiarity in the Energy Industry and ITIL v3 or v4 considered advantageous.

Role, Responsibilities, and Deliverables:

• Develop proposals and project estimates and conduct project quality reviews
• Perform issue and risk management activities
• Use tools to forecast, plan, estimate, and track project delivery and budget
• Provide oversight for performance, cost, scope, schedule, and quality to technical leadership
• Lead the project to produce the agreed upon solution deliverables in accordance with the applicable timeframes
• Execute a wide range of process activities beginning with the requirements definition and continuing through development, test, and final delivery
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Develop clear and concise documentation to identify processes, problems, and action plans as well as design attractive and simple sketches, charts, diagrams, and other illustrative material to facilitate communication of complicated topics
• Facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and levels and serve as a role model for teamwork
• Manage the relationship between Customer, other Customer IT Environment Providers, and Service Provider Personnel
• Coordinate and provide timely status reporting on the stability of program-oriented work efforts and on compliance with Customer technical standards and PMO aligned processes and methodologies
• Have responsibility for determining and communicating team assignments and directing and monitoring work efforts
• Provide status reports to Service Provider/Customer leadership teams on potential impacts to scope, budget, risk, and resources"

Qualifications:

7+ years experience in role with:

• Experience with project management and leadership across IT and business functions.
• Experience managing large complex projects that consist of a combination of internal/external and labor/non-labor cost components
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management best practices including knowledge of waterfall, agile and SDLC methodologies and tools
• Must have excellent leadership skills (proven ability to coach, develop, and lead a team) and must be able to work with a diverse project team consisting of resources from all parts of the organization (both IT & Business)
• Proven ability to engage and develop relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders with clarity and precision
• Experience with project cost management and resource capacity planning
• Strong Business Process Analysis and Mapping skills
• Experience implementing change management approaches to support projects
• Experience in the indirect management of team members including assisting in the development, training, and assignment of work/projects to
• Familiarity with the Energy Industry is a plus
• ITIL v3 or v4 a plus other members of a team

Certifications:

• Project management certification (PMP)
• Agile certification such as PSM (Professional Scrum Master) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) a plus

To apply, please submit a resume outlining your relevant experience as a Project Manager.
Short-listed candidates will be expected to complete a Blue Star Partners Bio.