IT Project Manager

Wunderlich-Malec Engineering's IT group has a Project Manager opportunity in our Eden Prairie, MN office. This person is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing client-facing IT/OT infrastructure and technical services projects from initiation through completion. This role independently manages multiple projects, ensuring schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and client expectations are effectively coordinated and maintained.

The IT Project Manager works closely with engineers, technical leads, clients, vendors, and stakeholders to drive project execution, resolve issues, manage competing priorities, and maintain accountability for project commitments. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining project schedules, monitoring project financials and resource utilization, managing risks and dependencies, supporting proposals and change orders, and providing clear, proactive project status reporting.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of project management experience, preferably in IT infrastructure, networking, systems integration, or technical services environments. This individual must be capable of independently driving project activities, anticipating delivery challenges, communicating schedule and scope impacts, and escalating issues appropriately while partnering with technical teams to achieve successful project outcomes.

• Independently manage multiple concurrent IT/OT infrastructure and technical services projects from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Develop, maintain, and manage project schedules, milestones, deliverables, resource plans, and project documentation using Microsoft Project and other project tracking tools.
• Coordinate engineers, technical leads, project teams, clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure project activities and deliverables remain aligned with established commitments.
• Lead project meetings, establish agendas, document decisions, assign action items, and drive follow-through on outstanding tasks, dependencies, and commitments.
• Proactively monitor project progress against scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables; identify potential delays, resource constraints, and risks, and develop mitigation plans.
• Maintain project RAID logs, action registers, decision logs, change documentation, and other project controls to support visibility, accountability, and timely resolution of issues.
• Communicate project status, milestones, risks, issues, resource constraints, and schedule impacts to clients, technical teams, and leadership in a timely and professional manner.
• Manage client expectations regarding scope, schedule, deliverables, resource availability, and project changes. Facilitate discussions to resolve conflicts and align stakeholders on priorities and next steps.
• Coordinate resource planning and capacity management with technical leads and management, identifying scheduling conflicts, competing priorities, and resource needs across active projects.
• Monitor project financial performance, including labor hours, budgets, estimates, forecasts, and resource utilization. Identify potential overruns or variances and communicate impacts to appropriate stakeholders.
• Support and coordinate proposal development, project estimates, scope definition, change orders, and related commercial documentation. Evaluate the potential schedule, resource, and financial impacts of proposed changes.
• Coordinate procurement activities, vendor follow-up, equipment readiness, and other project dependencies as required to support execution.
• Identify gaps in project information, technical inputs, approvals, and deliverables; establish owners and due dates and drive resolution to prevent downstream schedule…