Project Manager

IT Project Manager
Location: Chicago, IL
Type: Full time, Direct Hire
Contact: Mary at mnugent@forbestc.com

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with other Project Managers, IT team members, stakeholders and other departments to ensure successful project delivery from project inception through closure.
• Create various project documents, including project charters, project plans, status reports, project risk assessments and project gating presentations. Work with project team to ensure relevant project documentation is created.
• Provide project gating presentations to the IT Directors during the various stage gates of their assigned projects.
• Report on the project pipeline, budget run, risks, issues and mitigation plans for assigned projects.
• Resolve resource, timing or other conflicts between projects.
• Contribute to the project management best practices and standards within IT.
• Other duties as required.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• A minimum of 4 years of experience, including at least 2 years managing projects related to networking, hosting, disaster recovery and/or cybersecurity.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to process and methodology improvements
• Demonstrated knowledge and execution of project management practices, tools and methodologies, including an appropriate project management tool (Planview, Microsoft Project, etc.)

Contact:

Mary Nugent
Senior Recruiting Consultant
Forbes Technical Consulting
Chicago, IL
mnugent@forbestc.com