MVOP IMIT Project Manager

Swim Recruiting; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Swim Recruiting seeks an experienced Project Manager to coordinate technology work for a new administrative facility in British Columbia. The initial term is seven months with possible extensions, and the role is hybrid with regular project-site attendance in Metro Vancouver.

You will lead integration of infrastructure, workplace technology, facilities, vendors and operations to ensure readiness, validation and handover to support teams when the facility opens.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT infrastructure/workplace technology projects.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Experience coordinating facilities, vendors and business stakeholders.
• Strong governance, reporting and escalation skills.
• Proven ability to drive readiness assessments and handover.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current status of technology workstreams, plans, risks and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain an integrated schedule aligned with facility and occupancy milestones.
• Coordinate technology teams, facilities, workplace services and vendors.
• Maintain risk, issue, action, decision, dependency and change records.
• Facilitate working sessions, project meetings and readiness reviews.
• Prepare weekly status reports, executive dashboards and decision recommendations.
• Define readiness criteria, ownership, evidence requirements and acceptance checkpoints.
• Coordinate vendor deliverables and procurement dependencies.
• Develop technology move, cutover, contingency and transition plans.
• Support readiness rehearsals and go/no-go recommendations.
• Coordinate day-one support, hypercare, stabilization and operational handover.

Skills

Project management

Integrated scheduling

Vendor management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Office/facilities readiness

Job description

Contract opportunity leading technology readiness, vendor coordination and operational transition for a new administrative facility supporting a British Columbia healthcare organization.

• Expected initial term of seven months, with possible extensions.
• Hybrid work in Metro Vancouver, with regular office and project‑site attendance.

What & Why

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to coordinate the technology work needed to prepare a new office facility for occupancy. You will bring together infrastructure, workplace technology, facilities, vendors and operational teams to ensure that technology services are ready, validated and supported when the facility opens. Your work will continue through move planning, cutover, post‑occupancy stabilization and handover to support teams.

Who

You will work as an integrated member of the project team, collaborating with internal technology stakeholders, facilities and workplace services, business representatives, consultants, vendors and service providers. The technology scope includes networking, telecommunications, audiovisual systems, printing, end‑user computing and the processes needed to support these services.

You

You have managed projects where technology delivery depended on facilities schedules, vendor commitments and a defined operational deadline. You can establish practical controls, maintain an integrated schedule, identify risks early and turn readiness discussions into clear evidence, decisions and actions. You communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders and leadership, and bring a respectful, culturally safe approach to collaboration.

Critical Experience Requirements

• Project management experience involving complex IT infrastructure, workplace technology, facilities‑enabled technology or operational readiness.
• Integrated scheduling and coordination across multiple technology workstreams.
• Project governance, reporting, risk management and escalation.
• Coordination of facilities, vendors, business stakeholders and technology dependencies.
• Operational readiness assessments and acceptance planning.
• Vendor and procurement management, budget tracking, invoice validation and change control.
• Move planning, cutover, stabilization and transition to operational support.
• Clear written communication, facilitation and stakeholder management.
• Availability for the full‑time hybrid assignment and regular project‑site attendance.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current status of technology workstreams, plans, risks and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain an integrated schedule aligned with facility and occupancy milestones.
• Coordinate technology teams, facilities, workplace services and vendors.
• Maintain risk, issue, action, decision, dependency and change records.
• Facilitate working sessions, project meetings and readiness reviews.
• Prepare weekly status reports, executive dashboards and decision recommendations.
• Define readiness criteria, ownership, evidence requirements and acceptance checkpoints.
• Coordinate vendor deliverables and procurement dependencies.
• Develop technology move, cutover, contingency and transition plans.
• Support readiness rehearsals and go/no‑go recommendations.
• Coordinate day‑one support, hypercare, stabilization and operational handover.
• Support stakeholder communications, adoption and training coordination.

Compensation

$80-$100 per hour.