Project Manager
QTS Data Centers
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Ashburn • Texas • Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Effectively plans, manages, and delivers the internal IT projects on time and within budget.
- Facilitates communication between different team members (e.g. Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, Data Center Technicians, etc) and departments within the organization.
- Applies project management expertise to ensure accurate and timely delivery of services.
- Collaborates with team managers and resources to identify project approach, deliverables, tasks and resources required to complete a project.
- Develops and actively manages project plans, identifying applicable phases, tasks, resources, deliverables and due dates using traditional project management practices.
- Reviews proposed changes to project plans, including meeting with stakeholders to approve and implement beneficial changes.
- Manages multiple projects and tasks in a deadline-driven environment and completes projects on time.
- Continuously monitors and reports on project status to Upper Management (including C-Levels), including issues, risks, and escalations.
- Continually develops and improves internal processes and documentation within the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management or other related field or equivalent professional experience
- Five or more years of IT, Project Management, service delivery or customer relationship management experience
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite
- Experience managing and track task execution using project plan templates
- Basic understanding of data center/critical environment concepts, such as space, power, cooling and connectivity
- Basic understanding of technologies found within data center architecture, such as routers, switches, firewalls, server components, storage, and virtualization.
- Three or more years of progressive project management experience or team lead experience in an IT infrastructure environment (preferred)
- PMP or Agile certification (preferred)
- ITIL Certification (preferred)
- Experience with Salesforce CRM (preferred)
- Experience with Project Management applications such as MS Project or Clarity (preferred)
- Prior experience working in a Data Center environment (preferred)
- Experience in project managing customer migrations (preferred)
Benefits
- Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting
- Every employee is bonus or commission eligible
- Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Days Plus Floating Holidays
- Stock Purchase Plan (SPP)
- 11 paid Holidays Annually/Holiday compensation when worked
- Pet and Legal Insurance
- Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
- Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
- Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Military Benefits Package
- QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
- QTS Scholarship for Employee Dependents
- QTS Crisis Fund
- Wellness Program
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementservice deliverytask executiondata center conceptsdata center architecturecustomer migrationsproject planningrisk managementresource managementdocumentation
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationleadershiporganizational skillstime managementproblem-solvingstakeholder managementprocess improvementmonitoringreporting
Certifications
PMPAgileITIL