Project Manager

Title: Project Manager

Department: PMO

Revision date: December 17, 2024

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Remote U.S. or Canada

Level: P4

Rate of Pay: $70,000 - $90,000 USD / $100,000 - $120,000 CAD

Company Overview

Our growing company is seeking to hire a Project Manager who will oversee Project delivery/deployment, in organizing our ongoing Projects. This task involves monitoring Project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures, organizing and participating in stakeholder meetings, and ensuring that Project deadlines are met in a timely manner. Project Manager will plan, execute, and finalize Projects including closing out according to timelines, scope, and budget management. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors in order to deliver Projects according to plan. The Project Manager will work with Solacom Business Partners to assist in defining the Project’s objectives and oversee delivery and quality control throughout its life cycle.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams.
- Manage project teams for optimal return on investment, and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives.
- Identify key requirements for cross-functional teams and external vendors.
- Develop and manage the budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives.
- Work with other project managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department.
- Analyze, evaluate, and overcome Project risks, and produce Project reports for managers and stakeholders.
- Tracking progress against project milestones and holding others accountable for assigned tasks.
- Scheduling internal and external Project meetings while also tracking and following-up with action items.
- Identifying any barriers to successful project execution and escalating as appropriate
- Building partnerships with various industry stakeholders and leaders
- Managing contracts and agreements with clients to ensure all requirements are fulfilled
- Manage medium to large scale projects.
- Manage multiple project assignments in parallel to ensure timely delivery.
- Manage both Telecom and IT Infrastructure Projects of varying degrees of complexity and size.
- Execute project management policies, guidelines and Project parameters.
- Determine, establish, track and manage Project schedule timing and resource allocation to ensure targets are reached.
- Coordinate prioritization of Projects to ensure consistency with corporate strategies.
- Report and monitor projects budgets and statuses.
- Problem resolution and escalation management
- Conduct Project status meetings.
- Perform root cause analysis, issues management and conflict resolution.
- Maintain regular communications among organization leaders.
- Identify and manage Project dependencies and critical path.
- Develop and manage Project Charters, Project Plans, Schedules, and Risk Management Plan.
- Manage overall Project budgets.
- Oversee integration and alignment of resources (internal & external) schedules.

**Requirements**:

- A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in Project Management and experience managing Projects and projects as a Delivery/Deployment Project Manager directly overseeing customer Projects.
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience working in R&D managing product deliverables (SW and HW).
- Agile and Engr development Project/Project Management.
- Understanding of Project ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) infrastructure requirements, including:

- Networking & telecommunications; Hardware, Operating systems & Applications.
- Ability to work in a controlled PMO structure with defined processes.
- Information and systems security; Business risk & continuity planning.
- PMP or CAPM preferred (a certificate in PM will be considered for those with excellent track records)
- Experience in customer facing role and excellent presentation and listening skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and client relationship skills interacting with a wide range of IT and management professionals, including executives.
- Proficient communicating at all levels within an organization.
- Extremely organized and capable of tracking, managing and resolving issues in multiple activities.
- Ability to proactively identify and implement risk mitigation and issue resolution strategies to ensure Project success.
- Strong analytical, negotiation, problem solving and process thinking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication, coordination and organizational skills.
- Excellent presentation and listening skills.
- General knowledge of data center technologies, Telecom and IP networks
- Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Suite including MS Project, JIRA and Smartsheet.
- High degree of tenacity and persistence to get tasks completed on schedule.
- Ability to deal with change and learn new technology and proce