Infrastructure Project Manager

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Infrastructure Project Manager 

 On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for an Infrastructure Project Manager for a contract opportunity in Durham, NC.

Infrastructure Project Manager Job Details

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the project produces the required deliverables, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost. The Project Manager is normally responsible for low to medium complexity and or low to medium risk projects. This will include managing the governance, scope, costing, scheduling, communications, planning & tracking, terms & conditions and risk management of the project to ensure total customer satisfaction. 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Defines the project requirements and manages the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Governance Board or appointed project assurance role

• Manages the delivery of the project and production of the required products / deliverables in partnership with the customer and FAI delivery units to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service.

• Reports to the relevant stakeholders through regular Status Reports. 

• Manages business and project risks and produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that impact to timeframe and project costs are understood and mitigated.

• Establishes and maintains the Change Control (CC) for their project against agreed plans.

• Identifies opportunities to increase revenue and margin and manage changes to the project baseline.

• Manages the relationship and communications with key stakeholders (customer, subcontractors and client); Grows long-term relationships with clients and capitalizes on equity and partnership opportunities.

• Manage activities of project resources and develops a team of personnel resources. Defines the roles and responsibilities of the project team, forecasts and establishes the project team and ensures that the team understands the task that is to be undertaken.

• Contributes to the overall development of the Project and Program Management community.

• Complies with and enforces standard policies and procedures and works across practices to share lessons learned and best practices.

• Works across practice to share lessons learned and best practices with team.

KEY MEASUREMENTS

• Project delivered within contractual obligations - on time, high quality and within budget  

• Positive team leadership and interactions per multi rater feedback

• Project management standards and methodologies documented, implemented and maintained.

• Governance, risk management and other explicit control requirements adherence

• Contribute to professional community through production and reusable content from other projects and lessons learned

• Contribution to business development thru identification of new opportunities

Infrastructure Project Manager Mandatory Skills

• 8 + years IT project management experience 

• PMP certification / ITIL certification a plus

• Detailed understanding of project management methodologies

• High level conceptual understanding of IT domains (desktop, server, security, network, COTS applications etc.)

• Ability to communicate at senior levels and good commercial and influencing skills

• Delivered more than 10 projects and experience of at least 2 types of project at different stages in lifecycle 

• Planning, financial and budgetary control skills 

• Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, Project, SharePoint and related “Project Management tool" CA Clarity a plus

Ideal candidate will have:

Experience in the following types of projects in a Client facing role:

Server hardware/virtual refresh

Data Center Migrations, Installations, Moves or Consolidations

Operating Systems migrations and upgrades (Window, NT, etc.)

AD/Exchange upgrades

COTS application upgrades (commercial off the shelf) (examples-Netscaler, VPN, AppSense, Lync, SharePoint)

Office 365 deployments

Infrastructure Expansions

Single Sign on deployments

VOIP Deployments

Assignment Start Date

ASAP

Assignment Length

6 months with likely extensions and potential to convert to a permanent role

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