IT Project Manager

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a IT Project Manager with our large power and utilities client in St Petersburg, FL. This is a 12-month contract with a potential for extension.

Pay: $46.00 - $51.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.


Description:
We are seeking an experienced Telecommunications Project Manager to oversee and coordinate infrastructure projects supporting generation, transmission, telecom, solar, facilities, real estate, and regional IT enterprise work across Company's Florida region. This role will focus primarily on smaller-scope initiatives and will require strong project controls, communication, documentation, and stakeholder coordination skills.

The successful candidate must be comfortable managing a high volume of active projects, working closely with internal telecom teams, field resources, product owners, and business customers to ensure work is planned, communicated, and completed within agreed-upon expectations.


Key Responsibilities:

• Manage approximately sixty active projects simultaneously, ensuring work progresses efficiently and deadlines are met.
• Coordinate project scope, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, action items, and follow-up activities.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of project communications, decisions, updates, and actions in JIRA.
• Collaborate with internal telecom, engineering, field, and implementation teams to schedule and execute work within business timelines.
• Provide concise weekly stakeholder updates that summarize current status, upcoming work, risks, dependencies, and expected activity over the next two to four weeks.
• Partner closely with product owners to resolve questions, remove obstacles, and support successful project delivery.
• Support customer kickoff meetings, project planning discussions, and occasional site visits within the Company's Florida territory.
• Develop a working understanding of the Company environment and the telecom products and services provided to internal business customers.
• Track and report project budgets, forecasts, estimates, purchase requests, invoices, and cost variances as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Substantial project management experience, preferably supporting infrastructure, utility, telecom, construction, facilities, generation, transmission, solar, or renewable energy projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple competing priorities.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a high volume of concurrent projects.
• Proficiency in managing and reporting project budgets for assigned work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear status updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Experience planning, facilitating, and documenting project meetings, including decisions, risks, action items, and follow-up activities.
• Valid driver's license.
• Commitment to attend in-office staff meetings every Tuesday morning at 299 1st Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL .
• Commitment to work in the office three days per week, with Tuesday and Wednesday required onsite days, at 299 1st Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL .

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in the telecommunications or IT industry.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, JIRA, Primavera/P6, and Business Objects.
• Familiarity with telecom service delivery in utility, field, construction, or enterprise environments.
• Experience coordinating field work, site visits, customer kickoff meetings, construction windows, outage windows, or technician dispatch activities.
• Familiarity with one or more of the following telecom disciplines:
• Data networking, including switches and routers.
• Transport equipment, including Ciena or SEL ICON.
• Radio Frequency technologies, including Cambium or point-to-point microwave.
• DC power systems, including -48VDC and 130VDC.
• Fiber optics, including construction and single-mode terminations.

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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