Senior Project Manager

Holistic Partners, Inc; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Limitless Mobile is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end mobile telecommunications deployments and internal projects. The role involves planning, execution, risk management, and governance across Sales, Engineering, NOC, and other stakeholders.

You will ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with strong communication and thorough handover to operations, while coordinating distributed teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of project management experience within mobile telecommunications, wireless, networking, or related technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex customer technology deployments from project initiation through operational handover.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or comparable recognized project management training/certification preferred.
• Experience using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, Microsoft Planner.
• Working knowledge of 4G/LTE and 5G network architectures, including 5G NSA and SA.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, and lead complex, long-duration internal and customer projects, ensuring delivery is on time and within budget.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Pre-Sales/Solution Architecture to ensure the appropriate technical design process is followed.
• Produce and maintain core project documentation (PID, risk/issue registers) and provide status reporting.
• Lead project initiation, governance, and handover activities to Operations (NOC) after deployment.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Strong communication

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Smartsheet

Microsoft Planner

Job description

Role: Project Manager – Mobile Telecommunications Deployments

Location: Richardson, TX or Harrisburg, PA (Hybrid, but 3 days a week in office)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

Seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead customer mobile telecommunications solution deployments following contract execution, as well as selected internal projects.

The Project Manager will have end-to-end responsibility for project planning, execution, coordination, risk management, delivery governance, stakeholder communication, and operational handover. The role will work closely with Sales, Pre-Sales/Solution Architecture, Engineering, Network Operations, customers, vendors, and other internal stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to agreed quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery

• Plan, manage, and lead complex, long-duration internal and customer projects, ensuring delivery is on time and within budget.
• Participate in the formal project handover following contract execution, receiving:
• Signed Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Approved network architecture
• Delivery assumptions
• Project requirements from Sales and Pre-Sales/Solution Architecture
• Review project scope, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and resource requirements to confirm delivery readiness.
• Identify and formally raise scope, resource, technical, schedule, or commercial discrepancies before project initiation.
• Lead formal project initiation activities, including:
• Project objectives
• Milestones
• Resource requirements
• Project governance
• Ensure project plans and delivery activities remain aligned with contractual commitments and company objectives.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Pre-Sales/Solution Architecture to ensure the appropriate technical design process is followed.
• Ensure High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) are developed by Engineering after the Solution Architect has finalized the customer solution architecture and before the solution design is frozen.
• Ensure HLDs and LLDs receive appropriate peer review by the Pre-Sales/Solution Architect before final design approval.
• Coordinate engineering activities, dependencies, and technical deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure technical decisions, assumptions, and design changes are properly documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders.

Project Governance & Reporting

• Produce and maintain core project documentation, including:
• Project Initiation Documentation (PID)
• Dependency trackers
• Action-item logs
• Track project progress, budget consumption, resource utilization, milestones, and deliverables using approved project management methodologies and tools.
• Facilitate regular internal and customer project meetings.
• Provide clear and accurate project status reporting to management, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Provide weekly management updates, including project schedules, Gantt charts, milestones, open tasks, risks, issues, and required actions.
• Track project-related time entries for all assigned personnel using internal tracking tools.
• Proactively identify project risks, dependencies, constraints, and potential delivery impacts.
• Develop and maintain mitigation and contingency plans.
• Escalate significant risks, issues, and deviations through the appropriate governance channels.
• Maintain accurate risk and issue registers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure decisions and corrective actions are documented and followed through to resolution.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers, vendors, Sales, Pre-Sales, Engineering, NOC, and other internal teams.
• Maintain consistent and professional communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage customer expectations regarding scope, schedule, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and changes.
• Coordinate distributed teams and cross-functional resources to maintain project momentum.
• Build trusting relationships with customers and partners while maintaining clear project accountability.

Operational Handover & Closeout

• Ensure all project deliverables are fully documented before operational handover.
• Coordinate formal transition of completed solutions to the Network Operations Center (NOC) or designated operational owners.
• Ensure operational handover packages include, as applicable:
• Acceptance criteria
• Operational procedures
• Support playbooks
• Network information
• Support-readiness requirements
• Lead post-implementation reviews and project closeout activities.
• Capture lessons learned and identify opportunities to improve future deployment efficiency, quality, and scalability.

Process & Continuous Improvement

• Work with the Director, Project Management to continuously improve:
• Governance frameworks
• Project templates
• Reporting standards
• Delivery tools
• Deployment methodologies
• Identify opportunities to improve project execution speed, quality, consistency, and scalability.
• Maintain and develop technical awareness of Limitless Mobile's platforms, services, network architecture, and deployment models.
• Apply lessons learned across projects to improve future customer deployments.

Performance Measures

Success in this role will be measured by:

• On-time and on-budget project delivery
• Accuracy, completeness, and clarity of project reporting
• Ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent deployments
• Effective identification, mitigation, and resolution of project risks and issues
• Successful coordination of distributed, cross-functional teams
• Quality and completeness of operational handovers
• Customer satisfaction and stakeholder communication
• Successful post-deployment outcomes
• Continuous improvement of project delivery processes and practices

Required / Desired Experience & Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of project management experience within mobile telecommunications, wireless, networking, or related technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex customer technology deployments from project initiation through operational handover.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or comparable recognized project management training/certification preferred.
• Experience using project management tools such as:
• Microsoft Project
• Jira
• Smartsheet
• Microsoft Planner
• Working knowledge of 4G/LTE and 5G network architectures, including 5G NSA and SA.
• Working understanding of:
• IP networking
• Signaling protocols
• OSS/BSS platforms
• SIP
• VoLTE
• VoNR
• Understanding of mobile network roaming relationships and functions with other Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).
• Experience managing projects involving integrated hardware and software solutions.
• Experience working with Engineering, Solution Architecture, Sales, Operations, vendors, and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage distributed teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong understanding of project schedules, dependencies, resource planning, budgets, risks, issues, and change management.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing 5G Standalone (5G SA) deployments.
• Experience with Private Enterprise Networks and enterprise wireless deployments.
• Experience with mobile core, IMS, VoLTE/VoNR, roaming, or related mobile network technologies.
• Experience working in a startup or high-growth telecommunications environment.
• Experience developing or improving project management processes and delivery governance.