| Urgent Requirement || Technical Project Manager || Seattle, WA at Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Email: [email protected] |
| Hi, Hope you are doing well. We are looking for an : Technical Project Manager \\ to fill its Long-Term Contract position. If you are interested, please reach out to me on [email protected] / 7328258433 to discuss more about the position. Sr Technical Project Manager Location- Seattle, WA We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr Technical Project Manager to join our organization. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in successfully leading multiple infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity projects simultaneously. As a Sr Technical Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving transformational projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver results. If you are a motivated, proactive leader with a passion for driving transformational change in the infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity space, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Responsibilities Project Leadership: Lead and manage moderate to complex infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity projects from initiation to completion. Take ownership and accountability for project delivery, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related activities. Develop a project plan that outlines the scope, timelines, resource requirements, risks, and interdependencies. Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and risk management strategies. Coordinate project activities, track progress, and manage project risks and issues. Implement effective project management methodologies and best practices (experience with agile, waterfall, and hybrid). Oversee the execution of project tasks, ensuring adherence to the project plan and timelines. Monitor progress, track milestones, and resolve any issues or roadblocks that may arise during project implementation. Project Team Management: Assemble and lead a project team, assigning roles and responsibilities to team members. Provide direction, guidance, support, and motivation to ensure effective teamwork and project collaboration. Stakeholder Management and Communications: Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including executives, sponsors, accountable leaders, resource managers, external partners, and team members. Manage expectations, solve problems, escalate issues, and drive decisions. Create and help execute comprehensive change management strategies and communication plans. Project Governance: Establish project governance structures, processes, and frameworks to ensure effective decision-making, risk management, and reporting, including regular progress reporting, milestone tracking, and project status updates. Define roles and responsibilities for project governance committees and project teams. Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources across projects. Optimize resource utilization, address conflicts, and monitor resource availability to ensure project success. Collaborate with Resource Managers to secure resources for your project. Budget Management: Establish project budget, track project spending and reforecast spending regularly throughout project lifecycle. Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues across the project. Develop mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and escalation procedures to minimize potential disruptions and address challenges. Maintain RAID log. Monitoring and Control: Implement processes to monitor and control project progress, milestones, scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables. Regularly assess project performance, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and provide status reports to stakeholders. Change Control: Manage changes within the project, including changes in scope, requirements, or timelines. Evaluate change requests, assess their impact on the project, document change decisions, and communicate changes effectively to stakeholders. Quality Assurance: Define and implement quality standards, processes, and metrics to ensure high-quality deliverables. Conduct project audits and reviews to identify areas for improvement. Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and contractors, including contract negotiation, performance monitoring, and issue resolution. Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement based on lessons learned from completed projects. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation, process enhancements, and lessons learned to drive operational excellence. Project assignments for 2024 Wireless refresh Wood Products Refresh aging Meraki wireless network equipment (~350 access points) at multiple Wood Products distribution locations (10 sites). Ensure continued coverage and expand wireless in areas where the yard or product storage areas have changed. Implement 5GHz capability. Budget $1M. Network switch refresh Wood Products Refresh aging network equipment (~300 switches) at multiple Wood Products business locations (15 sites), replacing them with standard Cisco switches; add UPS units and new cabinets where needed. Budget $900K. Security Information and Event Mgmt (SIEM) deployment Evaluate and implement security technology solutions with supporting operational processes and procedures that enables real-time threat detection, compliance and security incident management across Weyerhaeusers corporate and manufacturing environments. Budget $800K. OT monitoring deployment Implement cybersecurity platform across all Weyerhaeuser manufacturing sites that will enable IT/Security to identify and prioritize cybersecurity risks through asset visibility, vulnerability management and threat detection capabilities. Budget $500K. Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. 6+ years of progressive, relevant information technology project management experience is required. Deep experience managing moderately complex IT projects from beginning to end, meeting budget, scope, schedule, and benefits targets PMP (Project Management Professional) or PgMP (Program Management Professional) certification are highly desirable. Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams is required. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels is required In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, hybrid), as well as relevant industry standards, best practices. and experience with industry standard project management tools (MS project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps) is required. Experience managing, tracking and reporting progress of work using data within Azure DevOps including development of burn down charts and reporting plan vs actual results is required. Proven ability to plan and execute the work in agile sprints while providing full transparency into the progress to complete the agreed upon project scope in alignment with project level milestones and deliverables is required. Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, systems development life cycle (SDLC), and enterprise software implementations is required. -- Keywords: information technology microsoft Washington |
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