IT Operations Project Manager; Local to Texas

Pay Rate: $55-60/hour on W2, client will not consider C2C

The candidate should be hands-on in project execution and comfortable engaging in technical infrastructure discussions, while remaining focused on project management, coordination, governance, and delivery.

• Manage assigned infrastructure projects from initiation through closeout.
• Take ownership of active projects already in progress and ensure continuity of execution.
• Collaborate with senior leaders and team members to develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, RAID logs, action items, and status reports.
• Lead project meetings, working sessions, implementation planning, and status reviews, documenting and sharing minutes or outcomes of sessions.
• Coordinate engineers, architects, vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests.
• Support infrastructure cutovers, migrations, refreshes, deployments, and modernization activities.
• Track deliverables, owners, due dates, and completion status to ensure project commitments are met.
• Escalate blockers and drive timely resolution with project teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation, governance artifacts, implementation plans, and closeout materials.
• Facilitate decision-making and ensure technical and business stakeholders remain aligned.
• Prepare executive-ready status reporting, meeting notes, stakeholder updates, and project communications.

• Strong understanding of enterprise network infrastructure concepts including infrastructure lifecycle management, hardware refreshes, and end-of-life remediation.
• Experience supporting voice and telephony projects.
• Familiarity with data center operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud services, automated deployments, compute, and storage technologies.
• Ability to understand technical concepts without performing hands‑on engineering work.
• Ability to manage dependencies, facilitate decisions, challenge assumptions, and maintain credibility with engineers, architects, vendors, and leadership stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, meeting leadership, organization, and follow-through skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical discussions into business-friendly updates.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar project management tools.

• Proven experience managing enterprise infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent work streams and technical dependencies within the same or multiple projects.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams and third‑party vendors while working in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Experience managing RAID logs, project schedules, status reporting, implementation plans, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience taking over projects already in flight and quickly establishing ownership.