Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager 28-month Fixed Term contract vacancy in a large education establishment £55,000 – £60,000 per annum, 32 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), generous pension scheme, hybrid working pattern (3-5 days on site) and other benefits   Hays Technology are working in partnership with a well-known organisation in Birmingham City Centre to recruit a Senior IT Project Manager on a fixed term contract basis.   Our client is delivering key strategic improvements and significant investment across its IT infrastructure. Some of that work involves relocating staff to enable building work to improve working environments and upgrading technology and equipment concurrently. They are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join the IT team to lead on IT Infrastructure Projects in conjunction with Estates project colleagues.   The successful candidate will have experience in delivering IT Infrastructure Projects within a building change, construction, estates context. You will also be expected to lead a team 2-3 Project Managers effectively.   Responsibilities include: • Take responsibility for the definition, documentation and safe execution of medium-large scale projects, actively participating in all phases of the project. • Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. • Take responsibility for the definition, documentation and safe execution of projects, actively participating in all phases of the project. Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. • Ensure that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained and tracks all activities against the plan, providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders, as appropriate. • Monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria. • Manage the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. Gain agreement for revisions to the project(s) from project sponsors. • Provide effective leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are motivated and developing their skills and experience.   Essential skills & experience required in order to apply: • Prince 2 qualification or equivalent experience. • Managed end to end IT and estates Infrastructure Projects. • Able to define project scope, requirements, deliverables and dependencies. • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be deadline driven. • Strong reporting and documentation skills required – project plans, financial management and forecasting, resource management, check point, high light reports and quality control. • Proven experience of delivering to time, quality and cost, as well as turning around aspects of projects that may have drifted off track. • Strong risk and dependency management (RAID). • Experience with using MS office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint and any project management tools are of a benefit. • Experienced in leading a team and managing 2-3 Project Managers effectively.   If you have the relevant experience and would like to apply, please submit your CV.