Project Management Engineer at BlueChip Consulting

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains detailed project schedules, works with team to maintain / update schedules.
• This role is responsible for supervising the project execution team.
• Responsible for timely closure of project tasks.
• Ensure projects are handed over to operations with detailed documentation and drawings.
• Ability to get the respect of the senior technical teams to lead projects, coordinate teams and handle issues and problems effectively in a timely manner.
• Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation and efficient utilization; negotiates resource conflicts with other project managers or resources managers as appropriate.
• Reports accurate status and process delivery monitoring through the phases of the Solution Delivery Management process
• Provides effective day-to-day project management of multiple IT infrastructure related projects
• Identify project goals and delivery clearly from requirements, define all activities necessary to achieve project objectives
• Manages the projects delivery within agreed financials/budgets
• Conduct change throughout project inclusive of schedule, scope and efforts
• Risks and issues management during the project execution
• Runs regular internal projects reviews covering resourcing, project performance, displayed metrics, actions and recommendations
• Prepare project plan, projects charter, communication plans and any other documentation as needed
• Provides regular status reporting on project delivery performance feedback to management
• Works closely with all stakeholders to establish good working relations
• Participates actively in the Workforce Plan and review
• Collaborate effectively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills leveraging all available resources
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
• Exceptional verbal and written communication
• Participate in Change Advisory Board, and major Incident and Problem reviews

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or any other related fields
• Minimum of 7 year(s) of relevant post NYSC work experience in the Telco, and Tech industry.
• Candidate must have a very strong understanding of current infrastructure concepts with the proven ability to manage networks, servers, virtualization, storage, data centers and monitoring in a fast paced, high availability, ITIL environment.