Network Infrastructure Technical Project Manager

Project Manager – Networking Be more than just an employee. Join New Era’s growing team and experience a corporate culture that promotes personal and professional development. We are looking for team members to contribute to and deliver our mission to “securely connect people, places, and information in a rapidly changing digital world.” Work alongside the finest team of highly skilled and industry certified professionals who are encouraged to drive change and think outside of the box. As a team member, you will receive competitive benefits, industry training, and certifications. New Era Technology is a global IT integrator with 2,500+ employees delivering Collaboration, Cloud, Data Networking, Security, Large Venue, and Corporate AV and Managed Service Solutions to more than 9,000 customers. We currently have a need for a Project Manager supporting a Global Network Infrastructure environment. The ideal candidate will have 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience in an enterprise network environment. Global Financial Services, Healthcare or Pharmaceutical experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Managing network upgrades and implementations projects.
• Managing network related projects associated to merger and acquisition activities.

• Establish and maintain project communications with the customer point of contact.
• Generate and maintain the project plan.
• Coordinate establishment of the project environment to include: communication & escalation paths and problem resolution methodology.
• Schedule resources, both internal and external.
• Management of onsite support personnel.
• Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with the infrastructure and customer project teams.
• Management of all project financials. This includes tracking and reporting of revenue and expenses and project billing.
• Project monitoring and closing activities; reporting of results to senior management.

Skills required:

• PMP Certification desirable.
• 5 to 10 years’ experience managing mid to large sized projects with Cisco Network Hardware.
• Experience in delivering services to customers with a track record of exceptional results.
• Ability to communicate internally and externally on all levels and through all mediums.
• Ability to apply project management principles, processes and tools to effectively manage projects.
• Good overall understanding of technology from a LAN/WAN perspective.
• End user focused, service oriented.
• Able to gather requirements from any area (end-user, engineering, operations, deployment etc.) and clearly communicate to all interested parties.
• Strong presentation skills for presenting to Senior Management and Steering Committees.
• Very strong verbal and written communications.