Our client is looking for an exceptional IT Project Manager -Infrastructure / Applications.
Long term Contract- W2
Location :Houston, Downtown- Onsite- 5 days a week
Industry: Oil and Gas -Midstream.
IT Project Manager manages the project life cycle of a project providing project leadership including defining project objectives and scope for each phase of the project, overseeing quality control throughout the project’s life cycle, acquiring resources, managing resources and coordinating the efforts of team members in order to deliver projects/products according to plan.
Essential Requirements: Experience, Educational & Special Training Required
- Responsible for the successful management of projects
- Manages project life cycle from initiating through delivery and project closure
- Manages the day-to-day activities of projects and project resources
- Creates, manages and tracks project documents including, but not limited to: project schedules, financials (budgets: estimates and actuals, forecasting, invoices), detailed project plans, scope documents, work breakdown structures, cost estimates, resource plans, risk and issue logs and regular status reporting
- Organizes, conducts and attends meetings with project team and stakeholders to facilitate all levels of project planning
- Manages multiple projects concurrently: 10 + projects
- Works with project managers of other teams to ensure overall business and operational requirements are met for company initiatives
- Lead steering committee meetings with IT and Business leadership
- Lead technical and requirements gathering sessions- bringing people and understanding together
- Communicates and collaborates with internal and external customers as needed including managing expectations, presenting and interfacing with stakeholders
- Works with third party integration teams to coordinate integration and testing
- PMI trained/educated
- Agile/Scrum understanding/experience
- Manage developer resources across projects
- Manages Geographically dispersed teams
Preferred Skills:
PMP Certification
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management, Project Management, Engineering or related field
3+ years of professional experiences in the management of IT infrastructure and operations projects or Applications & 3rd party software implementation project experience.
A team player with excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
A strong desire for quality and attention to detail with excellent problem solving and organizational skills
Demonstrates leadership qualities include flexibility and adaptability to change
