Job#: 3055236 Job Description: IT Operations Project ManagerLocation: San Antonio, Texas (Hybrid)
Schedule: 2-3 days onsite, 2-3 days remote. Hours are M-F 8-5
Length: 12+ Month W2 Contract
Job Summary- The IT Operations Project Manager will support ongoing technology lifecycle and operational initiatives across the organization. This role is responsible for providing practical project oversight with a strong emphasis on financial management, budget tracking, forecasting, resource capacity, and operational coordination.
Key Responsibilities- Manage and support multiple IT lifecycle and operational workstreams.
- Track detailed project and operational financials, including budget vs. actuals, forecasted spend, accruals, and financial adjustments.
- Maintain accurate financial reporting and identify potential budget variances.
- Support resource capacity planning and tracking across assigned initiatives.
- Partner closely with IT infrastructure and operations teams to understand work, dependencies, priorities, and financial impacts.
- Provide the appropriate level of project oversight based on the complexity of each initiative rather than applying unnecessary project-management processes.
- Coordinate ongoing lifecycle activities where scope, volume, and costs may already be established.
- Support vendor management activities, including invoice review and alignment of invoices to appropriate cost objects.
- Maintain visibility into schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and operational commitments.
- Provide clear, concise status reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
- Work independently with operational teams that have limited time for extensive project-management administration.
- Communicate effectively with both technical teams and business leadership, translating project-management concepts into straightforward, actionable information.
- Utilize Excel and other reporting tools to maintain accurate financial and operational tracking.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing or coordinating projects within an IT operations or IT infrastructure environment.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure operations such as networking, fiber, desktop/end-user services, or similar technology operations.
- Strong financial management experience, including:
- Budget tracking
- Forecasting
- Accruals
- Budget-to-actual analysis
- Spend tracking
- Financial reporting
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience supporting multiple concurrent initiatives or operational workstreams.
- Ability to work effectively with technical teams without creating unnecessary administrative or process overhead.
- Ability to quickly understand established operational work and determine the appropriate level of project management oversight.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate directly and clearly without relying heavily on PM terminology.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience supporting IT infrastructure lifecycle programs or recurring operational initiatives.
- Experience with resource capacity planning.
- Vendor management experience.
- Experience reviewing invoices and allocating or reconciling costs against cost objects.
- Experience working within a utility or similarly complex enterprise IT environment.
- Experience managing multiple technology workstreams simultaneously.
- Experience working with established IT operations teams supporting ongoing "run-the-business" activities.
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