PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST – CALGARY
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
Responsible for ensuring the customer needs are satisfied by providing specific deliverables. Ensures good practices in standard methodologies and processes are used to deliver an integrated solution. The major emphasis is on coordination of tasks. The job may include responsibility for technical development. This position serves as a single point of contact and acts in a liaison capacity to facilitate problem resolution.
Responsible for ensuring the customer needs are satisfied by providing specific deliverables. Ensures strong Project Management practices in standard methodologies and processes are used to deliver an integrated solution. The major emphasis is on coordination of tasks and status reporting. The job may include responsibility for technical development. This position will be part of an onsite client Project Management team, yet act as a single point of contact on specific projects, and will act in a liaison capacity to facilitate activity around work breakdown and delivering on project milestones.
This person will be a proven performer, will be well organized, an excellent communicator, strong multitasking skills on multiple high priorities and will be successful with conflict resolution and negotiation. Candidates must be fully fluent in English with clear enunciation.
The candidate will be fluent and experienced in the Data Center.
Our client’s Data Centre is nearing capacity in key areas. There are other project dependencies related to resolving these capacity requirements. Solutions to these capacity requirements are being explored on an interim basis.
The Scope of the engagement is to manage the immediate capacity issues – including AC, Telecom, and Storage with other parties. This individual will gather all current demand and assess key areas impacting capacity within a short and long term horizon and assess the impact to the facility.
The Project Manager will also be responsible for a second and separate project. This project would entail project coordination of technical resources and logistics reporting into a vendor relationship project management team needed to deliver remote office mobile communications at field sites currently limited by network footprint or using a non-standard solution.
Deliverables:
• Implement a near term tactical process for dealing with current state
• Define the longer term Strategic plan for the Data Center, including stakeholders, funding responsibilities, then secure consensus around recommendation to start the Strategic Project.
Skills:
• Stakeholder management skills will be key
• Facilitation & negotiations – stakeholders will their own perspectives on path and priority
• Coordination of vendor and customer operational aspects of the DC facility
• Communications – clear concise communication is critical as there varying agendas and priorities. The businesses will need to be briefed relative to the impact.
• Data Centre expertise would greatly assist in quickly getting up to speed and developing a path forward
Preferences:
• Senior PM, with good interpersonal skills that can quickly gain the respect of the stakeholders
Duration:
• Initially 2 months, with a strong possibility of extension for 4 additional months.