OverviewJob Title: IT Project Manager
Job Location: Torrance, CA (Hybrid)
Salary: $105,000-$140,000/yr DOE
The IT Project Manager will plan and manage projects across IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, and Business Intelligence. This position will coordinate cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, consultants, and vendors to deliver projects within the approved scope, schedule, and budget.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple IT projects from initiation through implementation and closure.
- Develop project charters, plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and status reports.
- Coordinate project activities across Infrastructure, Applications, BI, cybersecurity, and business teams.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, design reviews, testing, user acceptance testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
- Track project milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
- Lead project meetings and communicate progress, challenges, and required decisions to leadership.
- Manage project scope and follow established change-control processes.
- Coordinate vendors and consultants and track their schedules, costs, commitments, and deliverables.
- Support statements of work, purchase orders, invoice reviews, and vendor-performance monitoring.
- Ensure projects follow IT governance, cybersecurity, compliance, documentation, and change-management requirements.
- Maintain complete project documentation and support the transition of completed projects to operational teams.
- Assist IT leadership with project prioritization, resource planning, and portfolio reporting.
Typical Projects
- Network, server, cloud, cybersecurity, and end-user technology projects
- ERP and enterprise-application implementations, upgrades, integrations, and enhancements
- Data warehouse, reporting, dashboard, and BI projects
- Application modernization, system migration, and process-automation initiatives
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Four to seven years of project-management experience, including experience managing IT projects.
- Experience with Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, BI, or data-related projects.
- Knowledge of standard project-management methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with project planning, budgeting, risk management, vendor coordination, and status reporting.
- Strong communication, organization, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
- Experience using tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, SharePoint, or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, CAPM, Scrum Master, or a similar certification.
- Experience with ERP systems such as Infor LN or Deltek Costpoint.
- Experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or another regulated industry.
- Familiarity with Power BI, Cognos, SQL, cloud platforms, and system integrations.
- Understanding of ITAR, CMMC, cybersecurity, and formal change-control requirements.
- Experience coordinating distributed teams and external consulting partners.
