Location: Orlando, FL 32801

Type: 1 year contract on W2

Position Summary:

This is an amazing opportunity for a Project Manager to work for one of our premier clients in the Utilities industry, headquartered in downtown Orlando, FL.

Position Description:

• Demonstrate exceptional decision-making, organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrate competencies in project management and business application analyst skills with application development and deployment projects.
• In addition:
  • Able to manage multiple small and medium projects and initiatives at once
  • Managing changing priorities while moving the work forward
  • Patient and solution-oriented
  • Customer and quality focused
  • Team player and great communicator
  • Able to work in an environment with many needs and demands but limited resources
  • Good listener capable of identifying critical details from working sessions, meetings and discussions
  • Able to handle difficult situations and sometimes difficult people but keep the goal in mind and navigate these complexities gracefully.
  • Must be able to negotiate priorities, be creative to keep projects active, and/or address conflicts that may impact one project over another.
  • Able to identify and mitigate risks BEFORE they become problems.
  • Escalate appropriately and in a timely manner.

Skills Required:

• Strong leadership, administrative and organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and interviewing skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentation skills
• Ability to make presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to create project work plans using Microsoft Project
• Experienced and demonstrated collaboration and problem solver
• Business Analysis

Skills Preferred:

Special skills and knowledge desired:

• Utility or Utility back office knowledge
• Customer Care & Billing "CCB", Oracle Meter Data Management "MDM",
• Customer Service and billing systems
• Salesforce solution development and support
• Data governance, purge and archive
• SDLC
• Software development
• Continuous Process improvement
• Environment planning
• Project planning within framework

Experience Required:

• 7 years of Professional Project Management experience (certification required)
• 5 years of managing Information Technology related projects
• Knowledge of the utility industry or manufacturing industry.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration or directly related field from an accredited university. In lieu of a degree, equivalent combination of education, certification, training, and directly related project management experience may be substitutable on a 1:1 basis

Education Preferred:

• PMP or other project management certification (Preferred).

Additional Information:

Projects/Work Likely to be assigned:

• Subletting project, complete project from requirements to implementation and business process use of outside vendor software
• Purge/archive project high end of medium includes refresh of requirements from previous work, review of approach, data governance review/update, (Allen Austin managed a piece of the project in the past)
• Development/update of environment plans
• Development/update of release plans
• Development/updates of 52 week plan
• Support of patching processes