Infrastructure Project Manager

Top Skills
Must be local to Chicagoland or Denver, CO. Onsite 5 days/week.
1. Experience managing large-scale hardware refreshes (site build-outs, data center builds, lifecycle/eol refreshes, etc.)
2. Strong technical infrastructure background 50% + Ability to service Internal Business Teams 50% functional focus
3. Enterprise experience; supporting companies on million+ dollar projects
4. Energy industry is a pl not required
Job Description
This organization is a growth-oriented company that continues to expand its development of new energy sites. The IT Hardware Infrastructure Project Manager will be primarily responsible for executing new IT infrastructure build projects for generation sites (both Substations and Operations & Maintenance sites). This role entails managing multiple site infrastructure projects from inception through completion. The incumbent will drive work, collaboratively, to execute objectives.
Responsibilities:
Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes).
Interfaces with stakeholders from different parts of the organizations to develop scope, technical requirements and execution plans for new projects.
Lead projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, status reporting and closure.
Drives activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resource, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issue, dependency, vendor relationship and communications.
Collaborates with project and program leads to create any required business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules and resources required.
Provides timely updates to program manager, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates.
Collects, analyzes, and manages data from individual sites to generate reports to stakeholders and management teams.
Facilitates the teams daily work including all the scheduled meetings.
Creates a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely.
Assists with the enhancement of documentation related to process, SOPs, schedule templates, reports, communication plans, etc.
No formal supervisory responsibilities in this position, however the incumbent will manage third party project delivery resources/team.
Preferred

Skills:

Project management skills: create and execute project plans, proactively manage risks/issues, maintain compliance with project management processes, an eye for detail, independently maintain project documentation, drive follow-up on open actions etc.
Excellent oral and written communication skills:
Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation. Ability to drive productive conversations and team meetings. Active listening skills.
Excellent People skills: a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflict, be able to work with cross-functional teams.
Strong team player, able to foster teamwork, collaboration and a positive working environment to the project team.
Analytical skills: ability to perceive and analyze problems, develop alternatives and recommend sound decisions.
Solve Problems:
Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
Ability to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
Ability to adapt quickly to new and changing business and technical environments.
Adept at articulating technical implications to business users/stakeholders.
Ability to be hands on, as needed.
Self-starter with the ability to multi-task and juggle competing demands.
High degree of professionalism and integrity.
Qualification and

Experience:

Required:

Bachelor's degree.
7+ years in IT project management.
Experience, familiarity, and exposure to providing enterprise IT hardware infrastructure to existing sites.
Experience working on a variety of hardware infrastructure technology projects.
Adept at usage of various tools such as Microsoft Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Project.

Experience with industry standard project management tools.
Preferred:
Experience, familiarity, and exposure to providing enterprise IT infrastructure to new construction.
Understanding of telecommunication technologies and order processes a plus.
PMP or equivalent certification preferred, or other relevant certification/experience.
Experience in the energy or construction industry a plus.
Additional Skills & Qualifications

Experience with construction and/or corporate real estate teams.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Denver, CO.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $75.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are…