Project Manager, IT Project Manager

Consulting Project Manager – Operational Technology Topology Modernization (OTTM)

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Job Type: Full-Time Contract, 40 hours per week

Pay Rate: $80–$90 per hour, W2

Initial Contract Term: 1 year, with anticipated renewals

Anticipated Project Duration: 2–3 years

Description

MGT Impact Solutions is seeking a qualified candidate to be a Consulting Project Manager – Operational Technology Topology Modernization (OTTM) for their client OCIO – Operational Technology Services (OTS).

Successful candidates will be MGT employees contracted to MGT's client.

The Consulting Project Manager role is a full-time (40 hours per week) position initially contracted for one year, with anticipated renewals based on project needs and performance
. The overall modernization initiative is expected to run approximately 2–3 years
.

The Project Manager will provide dedicated day-to-day project management, coordination, schedule control, risk management, financial tracking, and vendor oversight for a major modernization of Operational Technology (OT) network infrastructure.

The project includes modernization across data centers, passenger stations, training/lab environments, and associated field locations while maintaining continuity of critical operational systems. The technical environment includes Arista network infrastructure, Cloud Vision, legacy Cisco infrastructure, cybersecurity and monitoring capabilities, network segmentation, and mission-critical operational systems
.

Primary Duties:

• Develop and maintain the integrated OTTM Project Management Plan, including phases, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, implementation sequencing, testing, commissioning, and final acceptance.
• Establish and maintain the master project schedule and track critical-path activities.
• Coordinate activities across data centers, passenger stations, lab/training environments, field locations, cybersecurity implementation, and production deployments.
• Coordinate multiple technology vendors, OEMs, systems integrators, contractors, cybersecurity partners, engineering teams, and operational stakeholders.
• Track vendor commitments, contractual milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and outstanding action items.
• Manage project expenditures, commitments, invoices, milestone payments, professional services, hardware/software costs, and remaining contingency.
• Maintain project scope and formal change-control processes.
• Maintain an active Risk, Issue, Action, and Decision (RAID) Register
  .
• Coordinate design workshops and engineering reviews and ensure decisions are documented and tracked through closure.
• Coordinate site readiness, installations, testing, migrations, cutovers, commissioning, and acceptance.
• Lead regular project coordination meetings and prepare weekly executive project-status reports.

Essential Functions:

• Manage the execution of a complex, multi-site OT/network infrastructure modernization program.
• Track hardware delivery, design approvals, lab testing, site readiness, installation, cutovers, FAT/SAT activities, training, documentation, and system acceptance.
• Identify schedule risks and critical-path concerns early and develop mitigation and recovery plans.
• Coordinate site-readiness requirements involving racks, power, UPS/PDU, fiber, cabling, conduit, environmental requirements, field access, and installation prerequisites
  .
• Coordinate Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), lab validation, Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), commissioning, migration, rollback, and acceptance procedures
  .
• Coordinate cybersecurity requirements, including network segmentation, firewalls, access control, monitoring, logging/SIEM integration, vulnerability management, remote access, asset visibility, and security validation
  .
• Coordinate planned outages, maintenance…