IT Project Manager
- Decision Six Inc.
13 Hours Ago
NA
W2
Washougal-WA
8-10 Years
Required Skills: IT Project Management, Contract Management , Work Breakdown Structure, Accountability , Corrective And Preventive Action , Status Reports , Maximo , Geographic Information System , Genesys , SAP , Oracle, Artificial Intelligence , Project Governance , Cadence , Change Control , PMO , RAID , IT Operations , Software Design , Data Conversion , Testing ,
Job Description
About this Position / Responsibilities
Core Accountabilities
- Outcome-Based Delivery: Define measurable outcomes, benefits, KPIs, acceptance criteria and target dates; track results through post-implementation review.
- Integrated Planning: Develop and maintain scope, work breakdown structure, schedule, milestones, dependencies, critical path, resources, budget, procurement, quality, risk, communications, testing, training, deployment and transition plans.
- Execution Leadership: Drive day-to-day delivery, assign ownership, remove impediments, resolve conflicts and hold business, IT and vendor teams accountable.
- Monitoring and Control: Measure performance against baselines using milestone, schedule, budget, resource, quality, risk and forecast indicators; initiate corrective action when required.
- Reporting and Dashboards: Produce concise weekly and monthly status reports, portfolio dashboards and executive presentations using Microsoft Project, Excel, Power BI, SharePoint and approved PPM tools.
- Forecasting and Recovery: Identify trends early, maintain realistic completion forecasts, and develop recovery plans with options, impacts and recommendations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead IT projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, implementation, transition and closure across platforms such as IBM Maximo, Esri GIS, Genesys, SAP, Oracle, SharePoint and AI-enabled technologies.
- Define and control scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, assumptions, constraints, success measures and acceptance criteria with business and IT stakeholders.
- Build and maintain logic-linked schedules with realistic durations, resource assignments, dependencies, critical path, milestones, baseline dates and delivery forecasts.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, resource plans, capacity needs, procurement activities and vendor commitments; reconcile actuals and forecasts with approved funding.
- Establish project governance, decision rights, meeting cadence, escalation paths, change control and required PMO artifacts.
- Maintain actionable RAID, decision, action, change and dependency logs with clear owners, due dates and timely closure.
- Monitor performance against approved baselines and implement corrective or recovery actions when scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, risk or benefit targets are threatened.
- Define outcome and benefits measures, including KPIs, baselines, targets, data sources, owners, measurement frequency and post-go-live validation.
- Prepare leadership-ready reports and dashboards showing overall health, accomplishments, upcoming milestones, outcome progress, schedule and budget trends, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and required actions.
- Ensure reporting data is timely, supportable and consistent with detailed project records; explain variances, forecast impacts and management recommendations.
- Facilitate kickoffs, planning and requirements workshops, design and risk reviews, steering committees, executive decisions and lessons learned.
- Coordinate IT, operations, business units, architecture, cybersecurity, data, vendors, consultants and external partners.
- Oversee requirements, solution design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, UAT, training, organizational change, cutover, operational readiness and stabilization.
- Manage vendor performance against SOW milestones, deliverables, staffing, service levels, acceptance criteria, invoices and change requests.
- Ensure compliance with applicable cybersecurity, privacy, records, procurement, architecture and public-utility regulatory requirements.
- Provide decision-ready recommendations on scope, schedule, funding, resources, risk acceptance and delivery trade-offs.
- Complete project handoff, financial closeout, documentation, lessons learned and post-implementation outcome and benefits reviews.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Project Management or a related field.
- 7+ years of project management experience delivering complex enterprise IT or utility initiatives, including plans, schedules, budgets, risks, vendors and executive reporting.
- Demonstrated strength in integrated planning, execution, project controls, critical-path and dependency management, forecasting and recovery planning.
- Proven experience defining business outcomes, KPIs and benefits-realization measures, not only activity or deliverable status.
- Advanced capability with Microsoft Project and Excel, plus practical experience with Power BI, SharePoint and/or an enterprise PPM platform.
- Experience delivering system implementation, integration, data migration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, cloud, application or digital transformation projects.
- Experience applying predictive, Agile and hybrid delivery methods and managing vendor SOWs, deliverable acceptance, invoices and contract performance.
- Excellent facilitation, written communication, executive presentation, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent recognized project management certification.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Public-sector, regulated utility, or water/wastewater project experience.
- Experience with enterprise asset management, work management, customer service, billing, permitting, field mobility, data and analytics, or operational technology initiatives.
- Experience with infrastructure, cybersecurity, network or mobile application projects and utility field-data collection
