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Project Manager

  • Location: Dallas, 75201
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 8 months ago

Rebuild Americas Infrastructure with Our Fortune 200 Materials and Logistics Client

Position: Project Manager
Location: Dallas, TX 
Term: 6 Months
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

PURPOSE: The Project Manager will provide organizational support through the project lifecycle to integrate an acquired business, both in the back office and operationally. The Project Manager will ensure that the project is done timely, efficiently, and completely.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
* Create, assist with the creation of, and manage project materials, including project charters, work breakdown structures, project plans, risk/issue logs and project status update materials.
* Manage the implementation of chosen technology solutions to meet or exceed project goals.
* Responsible for overall coordination and stability of project oriented work efforts, including working with the team to help frame up requirement and design workshops, the fit/gap analysis process and through project testing and deployment.
* Establish and implement project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards, and meet key stakeholder expectations.
* Integrate multiple project workstream plans and schedules to create a cohesive overall cross-functional plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies and major milestones.
* Build project budgets and track project expenses.
* Track project communications, coordinate data requests, coordinate meetings & meeting agendas, and keep meeting minutes.
* Maintain professional communication and working relationships with project stakeholders and team members (including C-level business stakeholders).

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
* Extensive expertise in project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques.
* Experience leveraging both IT solutions and business process improvements.
* Ability to suggest plans to integrate new and existing business processes.
* Ability to coordinate with cross-functional business teams to plan and prioritize workstream activities.
* Ability to meaningfully contribute to continuous project reviews, and update project plan to ensure processes meet changing business demands.

QUALIFICATIONS: 
* 5 years Project Management experience.
* ideal project management experience will be business focused not IT focused in areas such as back office (accounting, tax, banking, credit card operations), manufacturing (mechanical processes, environmental, safety), and HR.
* Some sort of energy or Oil & Gas experience is a plus
* Active Project Management Professional PMP certification.
* Experience with formalized PMO structure and PPM tool such as Microsoft Project.
* Concise and diplomatic communication skills.
 

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

About Us

At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re consistently in the top 25 of all U.S. IT staffing firms and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average, earning us ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing awards year after year. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

MATRIX is and Equal Employment Opportunity employer including disability and veteran and provides reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals.  Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable. If you are a qualified individual you may request a reasonable accommodation under the American Disability Act (ADA). If you are a person with a disability needing assistance applying, or at any point in the hiring process, please email us at MATRIX_HR@MatrixRes.com. To ensure a quick response to your request, please use the words “Accommodation request” as the subject line of your email.

For hourly W2 contract roles MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options.  Please see MatrixRes.com/Benefits for more information.

For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits would be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.