IT Operations Project Manager (Only Local to Texas)
Job Description
Role: IT Ops Project Manager
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Location: Irving, TX - Onsite
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Pay Rate: $55-60/hour on W2, client will not consider C2C
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KEY RESPONSIBILITES AND DUTIES
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The candidate should be hands-on in project execution and comfortable engaging in technical infrastructure discussions, while remaining focused on project management, coordination, governance, and delivery.
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- Manage assigned infrastructure projects from initiation through closeout.
- Take ownership of active projects already in progress and ensure continuity of execution.
- Collaborate with senior leaders and team members to develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, RAID logs, action items, and status reports.
- Lead project meetings, working sessions, implementation planning, and status reviews, documenting and sharing minutes or outcomes of sessions.
- Coordinate engineers, architects, vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
- Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests.
- Support infrastructure cutovers, migrations, refreshes, deployments, and modernization activities.
- Track deliverables, owners, due dates, and completion status to ensure project commitments are met.
- Escalate blockers and drive timely resolution with project teams and stakeholders.
- Maintain project documentation, governance artifacts, implementation plans, and closeout materials.
- Facilitate decision-making and ensure technical and business stakeholders remain aligned.
- Prepare executive-ready status reporting, meeting notes, stakeholder updates, and project communications.
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MUST HAVE” SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
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- Strong understanding of enterprise network infrastructure concepts including infrastructure lifecycle management, hardware refreshes, and end-of-life remediation.
- Experience supporting voice and telephony projects.
- Familiarity with data center operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud services, automated deployments, compute, and storage technologies.
- Ability to understand technical concepts without performing hands-on engineering work.
- Ability to manage dependencies, facilitate decisions, challenge assumptions, and maintain credibility with engineers, architects, vendors, and leadership stakeholders.
- Strong facilitation, meeting leadership, organization, and follow-through skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to translate technical discussions into business-friendly updates.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar project management tools.
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ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
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- Proven experience managing enterprise infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams and technical dependencies within the same or multiple projects.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams and third-party vendors while working in large, complex enterprise environments.
- Experience managing RAID logs, project schedules, status reporting, implementation plans, and stakeholder communications.
- Experience taking over projects already in flight and quickly establishing ownership.
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