Project IT Manager

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 58,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions in St. Petersburg, FL seeks a Project IT Manager for a 12-month assignment onsite three days a week.

The role supports early-stage infrastructure projects across generation, transmission, telecommunications, solar, facilities, real estate, and regional IT initiatives. Responsibilities include partnering with business stakeholders, documenting requirements, developing scope and estimates, maintaining project controls, using JIRA and Primavera P6, and coordinating

Qualifications

• Experience in project management, project coordination, project development, business relationship management, estimating, planning, or related project functions.
• Demonstrated experience gathering business requirements, clarifying project scope, documenting assumptions, and coordinating work across multiple internal teams.
• Experience supporting project estimates, financial planning, budget inputs, labor planning, contingency planning, project controls, or similar activities.
• Experience working with engineers, technical teams, business partners, or other stakeholders to obtain project information, resolve questions, and support project planning.

Responsibilities

• Attend and participate in meetings with business partners, engineering teams, regional teams, product owners, and other stakeholders.
• Track project decisions, issues, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and action items and ensure timely follow-up.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, financial inputs, estimates, status updates, schedules, and handoff information within applicable systems.
• Manage multiple work requests and planning activities simultaneously while maintaining organization and follow-through.
• Support projects from initial request through planning, estimating, documentation, and handoff to implementation teams.

Skills

Project management

Business requirements

Estimating & planning

Stakeholder coordination

Documentation

Scheduling

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

JIRA

Primavera P6

Tools

JIRA

Primavera P6

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Job Title: Project IT Manager

Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Duration: 12 Months
Pay Rate: $42 - $52/HR (W2 Only)

Job/Role Description:

• This role supports the early-stage development and planning of infrastructure projects across generation, transmission, telecommunications, solar, facilities, real estate, and regional IT enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders and internal customers to intake new work requests, understand business needs, clarify project scope, and document project requirements.
• Develop preliminary project scope, assumptions, constraints, financial information, and planning details required to move work through the project intake and development process.
• Coordinate preliminary project estimates by gathering project information, requesting estimates from engineering and technical teams, reviewing returned estimates, and resolving questions or gaps.
• Prepare and maintain labor planning, contingency planning, financial planning, and other project controls information based on engineering inputs and project requirements.
• Create and maintain JIRA Epics, Features, tasks, and related project records so work can be appropriately routed to regional and delivery teams.
• Use Primavera P6 schedules and other systems of record to review upcoming work, verify accounting information, and align project planning with business and project schedules.
• Coordinate with engineering, telecommunications, transmission, generation, solar, facilities, product, regional IT, and other internal teams to ensure project information is complete before handoff for implementation.
• Attend and participate in frequent meetings with business partners, engineering teams, regional teams, product owners, and other stakeholders.
• Track project decisions, issues, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and action items and ensure timely follow-up with appropriate stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, financial inputs, estimates, status updates, schedules, and handoff information within applicable systems.
• Manage multiple work requests and planning activities simultaneously while maintaining organization, accuracy, and appropriate follow-through.
• Support projects from initial request through planning, estimating, documentation, and eventual handoff to implementation teams.
• Occasional travel may be required for stakeholder meetings, project planning discussions, site visits, or coordination throughout Florida.
• This position requires working onsite three days per week in St. Petersburg, with Tuesday and Wednesday required onsite days and attendance at Tuesday morning staff meetings.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in project management, project coordination, project development, business relationship management, estimating, planning, or related project functions.
• Demonstrated experience gathering business requirements, clarifying project scope, documenting assumptions, and coordinating work across multiple internal teams.
• Experience supporting project estimates, financial planning, budget inputs, labor planning, contingency planning, project controls, or similar activities.
• Experience working with engineers, technical teams, business partners, or other stakeholders to obtain project information, resolve questions, and support project planning.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, work requests, meetings, follow-ups, and documentation requirements simultaneously.
• Experience planning, facilitating, attending, or documenting project meetings, including tracking decisions, risks, dependencies, action items, and follow-up activities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate project information to business partners, engineering teams, regional teams, and leadership.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing competing priorities and maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Ability to coordinate work across multiple stakeholder groups and move projects from initial request through planning and handoff.
• Proficiency with project, work management, scheduling, financial, or reporting systems.
• Valid driver's license.
• Ability to work onsite three days per week in St. Petersburg, including required Tuesday and Wednesday onsite days.
• Ability to comply with applicable field and site safety requirements, including use of personal protective equipment when required.
• Ability to perform occasional field or site activities that may involve lifting or climbing ladders as required by project needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting infrastructure, telecommunications, utilities, construction, facilities, generation, transmission, solar, renewable energy, or project development environments.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, JIRA, Primavera P6, Business Objects, or similar project management, scheduling, financial, or reporting tools.
• Experience creating or maintaining JIRA Epics, Features, tasks, or similar structured project records.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6 schedules, accounting verification, project cost structures, estimates, forecasts, financial planning, or project funding processes.
• Experience coordinating estimates and project planning activities with engineers, technical teams, product owners, business partners, regional teams, or field organizations.
• Familiarity with telecommunications or infrastructure disciplines such as data networking, transport equipment, radio frequency systems, DC power, fiber optics, construction, or facilities-related work.