IT Project Manager

This is a remote position. Must reside in the United States. If a resident of North Carolina, must be willing to come to Raleigh at your expense to pick up a laptop. If outside the state of North Carolina, use personal computer to remote into a workstation. Position is remote with minimal in-person engagement if the candidate is local to the Raleigh area.

Description:

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is seeking a Project Manager specialist contractor for a 12 month engagement working for the Department's Engineering Application Services with the Engineering Design and CADD Services Team.   The specialist will be responsible for providing project management tasks on multiple ongoing technical projects as well as providing assistance in writing several technical guidelines and workflows. These administration tasks are in support of Preconstruction Engineering Design and CADD business processes that are critical to the project development workflows in the transportation lifecycle.

• Break down and work tasks into clearly defined, manageable work items for multiple ongoing technical projects.

• Prioritize and track progress on work items and deliverables

• Ensure work items and deliverables are scheduled, completed, and delivered to the clients on time and with high quality & excellent, usable documentation

• Develop and maintain CADD guidelines and workflows for the Department wide administration and utilization of Bentley and other CADD Systems.

• Document the program and project deliverables as assigned 

• Coordinate with clients to ensure coordinated business processes  

• Draft and deliver training materials as needed

• Provide maintenance and quality control for overall Team register of project tasks and project deliverables

Required Skills: (3+ years)

• Experience in project management of IT related initiatives and programs

• Proven experience writing clear and concise technical training materials and other user documentation

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills

• Positive interpersonal skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain business processes to IT users and IT applications to business users

• Excellent organizational and presentation skills

• Strong Microsoft Suite experience (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) 

• Working knowledge of application development life cycle

Preferred Skills:

• Working knowledge of NCDOT engineering design processes  

• Understanding of NCDOT transportation life cycle business processes 

• Experience with AGILE development methodology

Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience

Experience in project management of IT related initiatives and programs / Required3Years

Proven experience writing clear and concise technical training materials and other user documentation / Required3Years

Strong analytical and conceptual skills / Required3Years

Positive interpersonal skills / Required3Years

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain business processes to IT users and IT applications to business users / Required3Years

Excellent organizational and presentation skills / Required3Years

Strong Microsoft Suite experience (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) / Required3Years