Project Manager (Infra & network) ($44 per hour on w2 or $53 per hour on c2c)

About the Role

Job Title

• Project Manager

Location

• New York, NY / Northborough, MA - Onsite

Mode

• Contract (6 Months)

Rate

• $60/hr.

USC/GC only

Note

• Minimum 12 Exp

Responsibilities

Job description

• Govern the project wrapper for a defined batch of work
• Provide project governance for clearly defined work, typically requiring coordination across one or two delivery teams.
• Ensure the project is governed through the correct channels and with the appropriate level of discipline.
• Function as the primary coordination point for business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Create and maintain a unified view of scope, schedule, and cost
• Maintain an integrated view of scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery commitments across participating teams.
• Partner with the Portfolio Management Team to track budget and cost for non-labor spend and provide visibility of project-related work flowing through long-lived teams.
• Actively manage cost and budget for temporary teams organized around the project scope where required.
• Facilitate intake, framing, and routing
• Coordinate project intake and framing through standard governance channels.
• Engage Agile Teams, ARTs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, and accountable parties based on how the scope will be delivered.
• Do not approve or prioritize intake directly unless explicitly delegated.
• Coordinate dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions
• Maintain an integrated view of project dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, owners, due dates, and escalation paths.
• Escalate when progress stalls, ownership is unclear, or decisions exceed team authority.
• Work effectively with long-lived Agile Teams and ARTs
• Work within existing governance, tooling, and delivery methods.
• Respect the governance boundaries of Scrum Masters, RTEs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, System Architects, and delivery teams.
• Build project-level views around standing structures rather than replacing them.
• Coordinate readiness, milestones, release, and cutover
• Coordinate kickoff meetings, status reviews, milestone, release, cutover, transition, and handoff readiness.
• Collaborate with Program Managers on integrated readiness and governance where the project is part of a wider program.
• Collaborate with communication teams for deployment communications and stakeholder notifications.
• Support incremental and iterative delivery
• Encourage sequencing that enables earlier validation, feedback, and value delivery where practical.
• Coordinate staged releases with accountable owners and delivery teams.
• Provide reporting and stakeholder visibility
• Communicate integrated status across scope, schedule, cost, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness.
• Support steering forums and governance reviews with a clear view of delivery reality and decisions required.
• Support lessons learned and process improvement opportunities.
• Work across organizational boundaries
• Coordinate across I&O, other National Grid teams, external vendors, and delivery partners.
• Ensure external dependencies and contributors are represented in project governance and readiness planning
• Govern the project wrapper for a defined batch of work
• Provide project governance for clearly defined work, typically requiring coordination across one or two delivery teams.
• Ensure the project is governed through the correct channels and with the appropriate level of discipline.
• Function as the primary coordination point for business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Create and maintain a unified view of scope, schedule, and cost
• Maintain an integrated view of scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery commitments across participating teams.
• Partner with the Portfolio Management Team to track budget and cost for non-labor spend and provide visibility of project-related work flowing through long-lived teams.
• Actively manage cost and budget for temporary teams organized around the project scope where required.
• Facilitate intake, framing, and routing
• Coordinate project intake and framing through standard governance channels.
• Engage Agile Teams, ARTs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, and accountable parties based on how the scope will be delivered.
• Do not approve or prioritize intake directly unless explicitly delegated.
• Coordinate dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions
• Maintain an integrated view of project dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, owners, due dates, and escalation paths.
• Escalate when progress stalls, ownership is unclear, or decisions exceed team authority.
• Work effectively with long-lived Agile Teams and ARTs
• Work within existing governance, tooling, and delivery methods.
• Respect the governance boundaries of Scrum Masters, RTEs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, System Architects, and delivery teams.
• Build project-level views around standing structures rather than replacing them.
• Coordinate readiness, milestones, release, and cutover
• Coordinate kickoff meetings, status reviews, milestone, release, cutover, transition, and handoff readiness.
• Collaborate with Program Managers on integrated readiness and governance where the project is part of a wider program.
• Collaborate with communication teams for deployment communications and stakeholder notifications.