Senior IT Project Manager

Leidos hiring for Senior IT Project Manager jobs in Remote, VA, US

Description

Are you interested in improving and shaping the delivery of IT projects?

We’re seeking a Senior IT Project Manager who is motivated by variety, is seeking a challenging environment for professional growth, and is interested in running information technology projects for our utility clients. This candidate will be joining an established team that has been delivering IT projects to utility clients for over 20 years.

This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, monitoring, and implementing complex large scale IT projects to meet organizational goals. This person will maintain the efficiency of important aspects of the project management process such as planning, budget, and risk assessment. The ideal candidate is required to have excellent project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from vision to implementation involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors. The successful candidate will bring significant experience to plan, coordinate and manage all functions and activities necessary to execute the project to meet the customer requirements.

Location: Role will be remote. May need to travel on as needed basis. Candidates living in the New Orleans, LA, The Woodlands, TX, Jackson, MS, Little Rock, AR, Newark, NJ, or Long Island, NY area preferrable, but not required. 

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate and manage large projects.
• Integrate all functions and activities necessary to perform the project/program to meet the client or customer requirements.
• Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
• Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions.
• Provide strong, proactive and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects
• Makes decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis
• Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project
• Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources
• Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables
• Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards
• Ensures projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope. Monitors and tracks project dependencies
• Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates
• Actively monitor, track and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or similar degree with twelve plus (12+) years of Project Management experience managing IT application projects
• Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed
• Excellent customer facing skills
• Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Desired Qualifications:

• Utility experience preferred
• Active PMP certification
• Primavera P6 certification desirable

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.