Job Description

SDLC IT Project Manager

12 Month Contract (Possible Extension)

Location: 100% Remote

Job Description

Dallas, TX company is seeking an SDLC Project Manager to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Rebuild Americas Infrastructure with our Fortune 200 Materials and Logistics Client.

• Ultimately responsible for partnering with business partner to uphold the project scope and objectives.
• Responsible for using Project Management best practice to guide a project with the stakeholders and/or business.
• Deliver projects on budget with desired outcomes. Will utilize skills to forecast financials of project to effectively communicate any variance to sponsor and required management.
• Able to articulate problems, bring the right people together to solve problems of the project and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed—all this with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires.
• Conduct weekly status reviews with project team and works with project team to obtain updates for weekly status reporting to include updates on timeline, health of project indicators, accomplishments, and planned items coming-up.
• Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports, stand-ups and/or review sessions to keep team organized and moving forward to successful project closure.
• Monitor projects for risks, actions issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement.
• Understand the end-to-end impact along with cross functional impact. Formulates and implements solutions.
• With input from project leadership updates project forecast, submits accruals and reclassifications to maintain project financial standards.
• Facilitate project teams in strategic meetings and follow up with meeting minutes.
• Responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices with project team.
• Excellent communicator that understands frequent, consistent communication helps keep teams aligned and progressing forward with project. Respectful and upholds team dignity throughout project.
• Encourage and support escalations, communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation issues.
• Proactively follow escalation and change control processes.
• Serve as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project.
• Cultivate the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders.
• Execute the proper communication and coordination of cross functional project teams to ensure seamless delivery.
• Engage in building consensus, developing contingency planning and providing recommend solutions.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with 3-5+ year as project manager in dealing with IT applications.
• Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle.
• Excellent organization skills.
• Self-motivated, works with appropriate urgency, friendly and assertive.
• Extremely detailed oriented and organized.
• Exceptional time management skills.
• Excellent concise writing and communication skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments.
• Can shift readily between the "big picture" and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each.
• Ability to or learn how to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Ability to use or learn how to use Microsoft Project.
• Ability to identify issues and problems.
• Physical requirements are only to work from home at a desk
• Detail Oriented
• Organized
• Must have great written & verbal communication skills

Desired Skills & Experience

• Previous energy experience
• Previous experience in an Information Technology Environment.
• Working towards Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

You Will Receive The Following Benefits:

Medical & Dental Insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401(k)

Paid Sick Time Leave

Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment provides IT Staffing Solutions (Contract, Contract-to-Hire, and Direct Hire) in major North American markets. Our unique expertise in today’s highest-demand tech skill sets, paired with our deep networks and knowledge of our local technology markets, results in an exemplary track record with candidates and clients.

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