IT Project Lead/Manager

Hawk Group

$90K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Math, Engineering, or equivalent
  • 5+ years in information technology
  • 2+ years in project management
  • 2+ years building and tracking project budgets
  • Basic knowledge of SAFe Agile delivery or PMI principles

Responsibilities

  • Develop and track project plans, deliverables, and budgets
  • Prepare status reports for on-time, on-budget delivery
  • Assist product owner with business case and stakeholder alignment
  • Advise on agile and traditional project management practices
  • Recommend project management tools and techniques
  • Serve as scrum master for sprint planning and execution
  • Lead user acceptance testing and knowledge transfer activities

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact IT and digital initiatives
  • Engagement in both agile and traditional project management frameworks
  • Exposure to enterprise and local applications in the oil and gas sector
  • Collaboration with diverse teams and stakeholders
  • Based in Anchorage, Alaska, with coordination across multiple locations
Full Job Description
Our Client is seeking a skilled IT Project Manager to play a key role in delivering high-impact IT and digital initiatives across Alaska. This position supports programs and projects spanning enterprise and local applications across petrochemical and business capabilities with a focus on value driven planning, disciplined execution, and operational readiness.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience in finance, project controls, and scaled agile and traditional project management. You will partner with other project managers, business stakeholders, financial analysts, vendors, and IT delivery teams to advance strategic priorities and deliver successful outcomes. We are looking for someone who listens actively, welcomes diverse perspectives, drives results through influence, and has a genuine curiosity for learning and applying the technical side of the oil and gas business and the IT systems that support it.
This position is based in Anchorage, AK.
Your responsibilities may include:
Project Management, Support, and Coordination
  • Develop and track project plans, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, budgets, and risks
  • Prepare status reports for leadership to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery aligned to business goals; escalate risks as needed
  • Support product owner and business analysts with business case development, stakeholder alignment, budget preparation, vendor and alternatives analysis, execution, governance, risk tracking, and OCM planning throughout the SDLC
  • Support and advise on both agile and traditional project management practices as applicable, including development of related artifacts
  • Recommend appropriate project management tools and methodology (waterfall, agile, hybrid) based on project requirements
  • Serve as scrum master for facilitating events, sprint planning, and execution
  • Lead UAT administration including testing configuration, design, and execution
  • Support transition of projects to ongoing support, lead knowledge transfer, capture lessons learned, and complete close activities

    Operational & Financial Support
  • Support AFE preparation (FEL & EXE phases) and other financial documentation
  • Support budget development, forecasting, monthly estimates and cost submissions, and year-end close activities for programs and projects as assigned
  • Support third-party project controls including budgeting, plan-forward activities, MSA renewals, service confirmations, and invoice tracking
  • Coordinate with third-party vendors across Alaska locations and provide light AV program coordination across Anchorage Tower, Kuparuk, Alpine, and Willow
Basic/Required
Legally authorized to work in the United States
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Information Science, or equivalent experience
  • 5 or more years of experience in information technology
  • 2 or more years of experience in project management
  • 2 or more years of experience building and tracking project budgets
  • Basic knowledge of SAFe Agile delivery and/or PMI principles
Preferred
Master's degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Information Science, or a related technical field (or foreign equivalent)
  • PMP certification
  • SAFe Scrum Master or other scrum master certification
  • Experience with the following applications: S/4HANA, PIMS, GEP, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Jira, Microsoft Office Suite

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