We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Project Manager to oversee and manage projects within multiple dynamic data center environments. As a Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful planning, execution, and completion of projects related to data center infrastructure, systems, and operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage resources, and drive projects to meet quality, timeline, and budgetary objectives.
Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following tasks with exceptional skill; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Project Management and Execution: Proficient in project management skills that demonstrate the ability to independently manage risk (budgets, schedules, and approaches) and convey high quality results in a meaningful way to project stakeholders. Leads diverse teams to complete the assigned project on time, on budget, to specifications, and with accuracy and efficiency.
- Project Planning: Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, objectives, tasks, timelines, resources, and budgets, in alignment with data center goals, business objectives, and stakeholder expectations.
- Resource Management: Identify project resource requirements, allocate personnel, and manage third-party vendors or contractors when necessary. Outlines all tasks involved in the project and delegates accordingly to available resources.
- Decision Making: Provides decision-making support, creating and reporting business trends, helps the business run efficiently and provides guidance on cost, schedule, and identifying/evaluating risk.
- Risk Management: Conducts risk assessments, if required; and reports identified risks to management and other interested parties; provides recommendations for risk mitigation.
- Communication Skills and Relationship Management: Acts as a liaison between company, customers, and vendors. Clearly conveys updates, issues, and solutions to all project stakeholders. Capable of developing and maintaining strong personal relationship with all project stakeholders.
- Code Compliance: Ensures compliance with federal, state, local, industry, contractual, and company regulations, standards, specifications, and best practices.
- Scope Change Management: Monitor project scope, ensuring any changes are documented, approved, and properly integrated into the project plan.
- Operational Change Management: Ensure strict compliance with data center change management policies to mitigate risk to operational aspects of the environments that we work in.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and oversee quality control processes to ensure that project deliverables meet or exceed established standards.
- Documentation: Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation, including project plans, status reports, issue logs, and other relevant materials.
- Lessons Learned: Conduct post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for process improvements in future projects.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Education / Experience / Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is desired. Relevant training and experience is acceptable in lieu of a degree.
- Proven experience (3+ years) in successfully managing complex projects in a data center environment.
- PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications, highly desirable.
- PMP Certification
