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Job Description Job Title: Project IT Manager Location: St. Petersburg, FL - Hybrid Duration: 12 months Pay Rate: $42 - $52/HR (W2 Only) Job/Role Description: Manage and coordinate telecommunications and infrastructure projects supporting generation, transmission, solar, facilities, real estate, and regional enterprise IT initiatives. Oversee approximately 60 active, primarily smaller-scope projects simultaneously, ensuring work progresses efficiently and deadlines are met.
Coordinate project scope, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, action items, and follow-up activities. Maintain accurate and timely documentation of project communications, decisions, updates, and action items in JIRA. Collaborate with telecommunications, engineering, field, implementation, and business teams to schedule and execute work within established timelines.
Provide concise weekly stakeholder updates summarizing project status, upcoming work, risks, dependencies, and anticipated activities for the next two to four weeks. Partner with product owners to answer questions, remove obstacles, and support successful project delivery. Plan, facilitate, and document customer kickoff meetings and project-planning discussions.
Coordinate field work, site visits, construction windows, outage windows, and technician activities when required. Develop a working understanding of the client's operating environment and the telecommunications products and services provided to internal business customers. Track and report project budgets, forecasts, estimates, purchase requests, invoices, and cost variances.
Identify project risks, delays, and dependencies early and escalate concerns to the appropriate stakeholders. Support projects throughout the client's Florida service territory based on business needs. Attend occasional customer meetings, field visits, and project sites within Florida.
Required Qualifications Substantial project management experience supporting infrastructure, utility, telecommunications, construction, facilities, generation, transmission, solar, renewable energy, or related projects. Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of concurrent projects with competing priorities. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, milestones, and action items. Proficiency in tracking and reporting project budgets, forecasts, estimates, invoices, purchase requests, and cost variances. Experience planning, facilitating, and documenting project meetings, including decisions, risks, action items, and follow-up activities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear and concise updates to leadership, engineering teams, field personnel, product owners, and internal customers. Strong organizational, prioritization, documentation, and follow-through skills. Ability to coordinate field work, site visits, construction activities, outages, or technician assignments.
Valid driver's license and ability to travel occasionally within Florida. Ability to work onsite three days per week, with Tuesday and Wednesday required onsite days. Ability to attend in-office staff meetings every Tuesday morning in St.
Petersburg, FL. Ability to perform physical duties associated with field visits, including lifting and climbing ladders. Ability to wear required personal protective equipment while working in field environments.
Preferred Qualifications Project management experience within the telecommunications or IT industry. Experience supporting telecommunications service delivery in utility, field, construction, or enterprise environments. Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, JIRA, Primavera P6, and Business Objects.
Familiarity with data networking technologies, including switches and routers. Familiarity with transport equipment such as Ciena or SEL ICON. Familiarity with radio-frequency technologies, including Cambium equipment or point-to-point microwave.
Familiarity with DC power systems, including -48VDC and 130VDC. Familiarity with fiber-optic construction and single-mode fiber terminations.
Salary : $42 - $52