Senior IT Project Manager - Hardware Deployment

Dahl Consulting; Wayzata (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 117,000; Part time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Dahl Consulting is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to support a global client in the food & beverage manufacturing sector. The role focuses on a major plant technology modernization program, coordinating hardware deployments across numerous locations and managing cross-functional teams in a hybrid delivery environment.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in project management, hands-on JIRA experience, and a proven ability to drive scope, timelines, risks, and stakeholder alignment across

Qualifications

• 7+ years of dedicated project management experience.
• Experience managing complex infrastructure or technology modernization programs.
• Proven ability to lead multi-site implementations across large, dispersed organizations.
• Hands-on experience using JIRA for roadmap development, backlog management, or storyboarding.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management support across five active workstreams.
• Define project scope, deliverables, dependencies, responsibilities, and timelines with workstream leads.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans aligned with broader program objectives.
• Organize project backlogs and coordinate task ownership, timing, prioritization, and completion.
• Track project milestones, forecasts, dependencies, risks, issues, and mitigation activities.
• Create and maintain clear, accurate, and up-to-date project documentation.
• Develop and integrate a unified program roadmap across multiple workstreams.
• Provide consultative project management guidance to workstream leads and program stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities across technical teams, business stakeholders, deployment teams, and external vendors.
• Review project deliverables against documented requirements, expectations, and agreed-upon timelines.
• Communicate project status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and required actions to appropriate stakeholders.
• Support change management efforts associated with technology modernization and deployment activities.
• Establish practical, consistent, and repeatable project management processes within an evolving program environment.
• Facilitate productive discussions and help maintain project momentum when stakeholders have competing priorities or perspectives.
• Utilize Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft Office applications to support communication, collaboration, planning, and project tracking.
• Utilize JIRA, as applicable, to support roadmap development, backlog management, and storyboarding.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Agile practices

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Title: Senior IT Project Manager

Location: Wayzata, MN (Hybrid, onsite 2-3 days per week)

Job Type: Contract (7 Months)

Compensation: $65-$85 per hour (W2)

Industry: Food & Beverage Manufacturing

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to support our client, a large global organization operating within the agricultural, food production, and industrial manufacturing sectors. This role will support a major plant technology modernization program focused on upgrading technology hardware across more than 1,000 locations. The Senior IT Project Manager will provide project management support across approximately five active workstreams, helping establish consistent project structures, coordinate cross-functional activities, and maintain visibility into key deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and risks. This position operates within a hybrid project delivery model, with approximately 40% of the work supporting Agile activities related to pre-deployment architecture and solution development and approximately 60% supporting waterfall-based hardware deployments to individual plant locations.

Job Description

Key responsibilities include

• Provide project management support across approximately five active workstreams.
• Partner with workstream leads to define project scope, deliverables, dependencies, responsibilities, and timelines.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans aligned with broader program objectives.
• Organize project backlogs and coordinate task ownership, timing, prioritization, and completion.
• Track project milestones, forecasts, dependencies, risks, issues, and mitigation activities.
• Create and maintain clear, accurate, and up-to-date project documentation.
• Develop and integrate a unified program roadmap across multiple workstreams.
• Provide consultative project management guidance to workstream leads and program stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities across technical teams, business stakeholders, deployment teams, and external vendors.
• Review project deliverables against documented requirements, expectations, and agreed-upon timelines.
• Communicate project status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and required actions to appropriate stakeholders.
• Support change management efforts associated with technology modernization and deployment activities.
• Establish practical, consistent, and repeatable project management processes within an evolving program environment.
• Facilitate productive discussions and help maintain project momentum when stakeholders have competing priorities or perspectives.
• Utilize Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft Office applications to support communication, collaboration, planning, and project tracking.
• Utilize JIRA, as applicable, to support roadmap development, backlog management, and storyboarding.

Qualifications Required

• At least 7 years of dedicated project management experience.
• Experience managing complex infrastructure, hardware deployment, or technology modernization programs.
• Proven ability to lead multi-site implementations across large, geographically dispersed organizations.
• Hands-on experience using JIRA for roadmap development, backlog management, or storyboarding.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing large-scale enterprise hardware deployment initiatives.
• Experience supporting technology implementations or deployments across multiple physical locations.
• Experience coordinating projects involving technical, operational, business, and vendor teams.
• Experience supporting organizational change management activities related to technology implementations.

Benefits

Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

We look forward to meeting you!