Project Manager - W2

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