Planning Project Manager – PMP

QTech; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

QTech in Mechanicsville, VA seeks a Senior Planning Project Manager PMP to lead complex IT initiatives with multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholders. You will guide projects through initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout under standard procedures.

Collaborate with development and business groups, manage budgets, timelines, risks, and deliverables, and produce regular reports. Must have PMP and experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex IT projects with multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business/technical requirements into system specifications.
• Knowledge of PM methodologies and governance.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall project management.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on Technical Project Manager with development teams and business groups.
• Coordinate with ITD management, staff, priorities, and resources.
• Communicate timelines, milestones, deliverables to technical and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors throughout execution.
• Support contract management and procurement activities.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA PM practices and governance.
• Coordinate with VDOT and VITA PMOs.
• Maintain budgets, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, issues, and status reporting.
• Disseminate project information according to communications plan.
• Ensure requirements and use cases are documented.
• Facilitate design workshops and define test objectives.
• Manage milestones to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define, measure, and track project progress with metrics.
• Support training activities and technology solutions implementation.
• Translate requirements into detailed system specifications.
• Support activities across analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, troubleshooting.

Skills

Complex IT projects

Hands-on with development teams

PM governance & methodologies

Agile & Waterfall

Microsoft Project

MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT)

SharePoint

Translate requirements to specs

System analysis & design

Communication skills

Customer/vendor coordination

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft SharePoint

Job description

Job Role: Planning Project Manager PMP
Location: Mechanicsville, VA
Duration: Long Term Contract
Employment Type: Both C2C and W2

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage and deliver complex IT projects involving multiple teams, work streams, vendors, and business stakeholders within an aggressive delivery schedule. The Project Manager will work under the Program Manager and be accountable for the successful delivery of assigned projects while following the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management through the PreSelect, Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, and Closeout phases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a hands-on Technical Project Manager working closely with development teams and business groups.
• Coordinate and communicate with ITD management and staff regarding work tasks, priorities, and resource requirements.
• Communicate project timelines, milestones, deliverables, and expectations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors throughout project execution.
• Support contract management activities and coordinate with appropriate procurement offices.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices, standards, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate with VDOT and VITA Project Management Offices (PMOs).
• Maintain project budgets, project plans, tasks, schedules, risks, issues, and status reporting.
• Disseminate project information to team members and customers according to the established communications plan.
• Ensure requirements and use cases are properly documented.
• Facilitate design workshops for assigned projects.
• Define test objectives and develop test plans and test cases.
• Manage project milestones and deliverables to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define, measure, track, and clearly communicate project progress using appropriate metrics.
• Support system and application training activities.
• Analyze, design, develop, troubleshoot, and implement technology solutions.
• Translate business and technical requirements into detailed system specifications.
• Support project activities across system analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and troubleshooting.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience managing complex IT projects involving multiple teams and work streams.
• Hands-on experience working with development teams and business stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of project management tools, methodologies, practices, and governance.
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Project.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including: o Microsoft Word o Microsoft Excel o Microsoft PowerPoint
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint.
• Knowledge of data modeling and interface management applications/tools.
• Ability to analyze and translate business/technical requirements into system specifications.
• Ability to analyze, design, develop, troubleshoot, and implement technology solutions.
• Ability to program and create custom reports using standard IT application tools.Progressively responsible experience in system analysis, design, development, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Comprehensive understanding of project management methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively interact with customers, technical teams, business groups, management, vendors, consultants, and contractors.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile Scrum Master Certification.
• Previous VDOT ITD work experience.
• Training, education, or experience in: o Computer Science o Information Systems o Engineering o Business Administration o Related field