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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)

Project Manager

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Project Manager for a contract opportunity in Plano, TX.

Project Manager Job Details

Seeking a results oriented, driven individual with excellent communication skills to manage client infrastructure initiatives utilizing various technologies at Intel. Candidate will work as the key interface with Stakeholders, Program/Project Management, IT Managers, SME's and project teams to manage project efforts. Manage the delivery of multiple projects concurrently that have moderate to high levels of business or technical complexity and risk, which involves multiple business areas and owners. Manage cross function dependencies and impacts and be accountable to ensure project commitments and deliverables are met. 
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 
Provide global and cross-functional leadership to local and virtual project teams, building a collaborative and productive environment for teams to excel in. 
Steward Infrastructure initiatives through various phases of the program/project lifecycle to meet business objectives. 
Plans and manages scope, resources, schedule, and quality of the project or program to meet objectives and deliverables. 
Understands the project or program charter to develop the scope statement and the work breakdown structure. Manages the project or program scope through the life cycle to control changes. 
Integrates and coordinates all project or program plans to create a consistent, coherent document; carries out the plan by ensuring activities are performed. 
Manage approval decisions in the Program Lifecycle and the work required to meet the respective exit criteria for each decision. Defines measures and tracks the program/project critical success indicators (CSIs) to meet requirements. 
Determines the resources (people, hardware, and materials), quantities, and timing needed to carry out project or program activities; identifies, documents, and assigns roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. 
Ensures complete and correct business requirements are gathered, analyzed, documented and prioritized based on business value and project objectives. 
Understands the technical concepts, architecture, systems, development methods, and disciplines associated with the defined projects, applies the knowledge to deliverables, and leverages it to meet/accelerate project deliverables. 
Creates the integrated program/project schedule with start and finish dates; analyzes activity sequences, durations, dependencies, constraints, and resource requirements and makes recommendations to meet commitments; involves senior management in the negotiation of schedule changes that require trade-offs of the project/program constraints; baselines the schedule. 
Identifies, documents, communicates and tracks risks and their characteristics through PLC; performs analysis of risks, and potential impact; develops risk responses and mitigation plans to prioritized risks and ensures the execution of risk plans and their effectiveness. 
Responsible for project status reporting to program management and leadership. 
Foster a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with project team members and colleagues. 

Project Manager Mandatory Skills

5+ years experience in a professional services environment exhibiting proven project management and end-to-end experience with IT infrastructure, processes and technologies. 
Experience with coordinating key teams and resources for data center/network build out and infrastructure deployment. 
Experience with client imaging and migration initiatives in medium to large scale environments. 
Experience in working with internal and managed services teams for client technology roll outs and migrations. 
Experience working closely with and managing tasks for infrastructure technology teams. 
Experience directly managing and coordinating migrations including service desk, client imaging, Tier 2 and white glove support teams. 
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
Proven interpersonal skills & track record managing work in a matrixed environment. 
Ability to "think outside the box" to mitigate issues/risks and develop innovative solutions working with project team members. 
Must have strong analytical, negotiation, presentation and organizational skills and abilities. 
Proficient in using Microsoft Office 2013 (Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) & Sharepoint 
PMI Certification a plus 
ITIL Certification a plus 
Proficiency in PMM/Agile tools a plus.

Project Manager Start Date

ASAP

Project Manager Assignment Length

3+ months

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