Technical Project Manager
Location: Houston, TX - Hybrid
Work Arrangement: Onshore / Hybrid
Job Type: Contract
Industry: Enterprise IT
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to support multiple large-scale IT initiatives and cross-functional workstreams. This role will focus heavily on project coordination, dependency management, stakeholder communication, action tracking, status reporting, and keeping project activities aligned across multiple teams and locations.
The ideal candidate is a highly organized Technical Project Manager who can manage multiple priorities, coordinate companion workstreams, identify risks and dependencies, drive follow-ups, and communicate effectively with project leadership and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate multiple IT project workstreams supporting large enterprise initiatives.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, action items, status reports, and project documentation.
- Track project activities, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and follow-up actions.
- Coordinate activities across multiple teams, offices, and geographic locations.
- Maintain regular communication with project managers, project leadership, technical teams, business stakeholders, and other participating groups.
- Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, status meetings, and follow-up activities.
- Monitor project progress and identify delays, gaps, risks, dependencies, and conflicting priorities.
- Escalate issues appropriately and help drive action items toward resolution.
- Ensure project information and coordination materials remain accurate and up to date.
- Support IT project activities from initiation through completion.
- Provide project coordination support across additional IT initiatives as needed.
- Help ensure activities remain aligned with overall project objectives, timelines, and requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Technical Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Project Manager, or Technical Project Coordinator.
- Experience supporting large-scale IT projects, programs, implementations, or enterprise technology initiatives.
- Strong experience with project coordination, project tracking, schedules, and action-item management.
- Hands-on experience with dependency, risk, and issue management.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience coordinating work across multiple teams, offices, locations, or functional groups.
- Experience preparing or maintaining status reports, project plans, meeting notes, action logs, and project documentation.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
- Ability to identify project issues and dependencies early and appropriately
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while maintaining consistent communication with project leadership.
- Strong follow-through and attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment in Houston, TX.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in an enterprise technology environment.
- Experience supporting multiple concurrent IT initiatives.
- Familiarity with common IT project management, collaboration, scheduling, and reporting tools.
- Experience working with distributed or geographically dispersed project teams.
- Formal project management certification such as PMP is a plus.