We are seeking an IT Project Manager / Network Project Coordinator to support enterprise network infrastructure projects and operational initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a foundational understanding of networking technologies along with strong project coordination, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
This role is suitable for candidates who have coordinated IT infrastructure or networking projects and can manage schedules, vendors, dependencies, risks, and project status updates.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate network infrastructure projects involving LAN, WAN, wireless, SD-WAN, internet circuits, and site deployments.
- Maintain project schedules, milestones, action items, risks, dependencies, and status reports.
- Coordinate with Network Engineering, IT infrastructure teams, vendors, telecom carriers, and site teams.
- Track equipment orders, circuit delivery, installations, implementations, and project readiness.
- Schedule project meetings, document decisions, and follow up on outstanding action items.
- Support network refreshes, migrations, upgrades, site expansions, and infrastructure deployments.
- Identify risks, delays, and dependencies and elevate issues to technical or program leads.
- Maintain project trackers, implementation plans, documentation, and management dashboards.
- Coordinate project handoffs to Network Operations after implementation.
- Manage multiple projects and priorities while ensuring timely communication with stakeholders.
Required Skills
- 2–5 years of experience in IT infrastructure, networking, technical project coordination, or project/program management.
- Basic understanding of LAN/WAN, routing and switching, wireless networking, internet circuits, firewalls, SD-WAN, DNS, and DHCP.
- Experience coordinating technical teams, vendors, or telecommunications providers.
- Strong project tracking, organization, documentation, and follow-up skills.
- Ability to manage schedules, deadlines, risks, and dependencies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate project updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in enterprise IT or network infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with Cisco, Aruba, Arista, Palo Alto, or similar networking technologies.
- Knowledge of telecommunications carriers and circuit provisioning.
- Basic familiarity with ITIL Change, Incident, and Problem Management processes.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Visio.
- Experience maintaining project trackers, schedules, dashboards, and status reports.
- PMP, CAPM, ITIL, Network+, or similar certifications are a plus but not mandatory.