Project Manager

About the Role

A confidential public-sector client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the day-to-day management of a large, multi-site Operational Technology infrastructure modernization program in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This is a 12-month contractor assignment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the integrated project plan and master schedule, including milestones, dependencies, implementation sequencing, critical-path activities, testing, commissioning, training, and final acceptance.
• Coordinate vendors and contractors, track commitments and deliverables, monitor expenditures and invoices, validate milestone payments, and escalate unresolved issues.
• Control project scope, manage change requests, maintain the RAID register, assess impacts, assign mitigation actions, and escalate significant risks and issues.
• Facilitate design reviews and coordinate resolution of network, cybersecurity, infrastructure, monitoring, and legacy integration requirements.
• Ensure facilities, power, racks, fiber, cabling, environmental, field access, and installation prerequisites are complete before deployment.
• Coordinate FAT/SAT, lab validation, commissioning, migration, rollback, deficiency resolution, and final acceptance.
• Coordinate outages, maintenance windows, operational notifications, and change-control activities to minimize impacts to critical systems and service.
• Maintain project records and configuration documentation, lead project meetings, and provide concise reporting on schedule, budget, risks, vendor performance, scope changes, and key decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience leading complex technology, infrastructure, network, or systems modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, multi-site projects with multiple vendors, contractors, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong experience with master scheduling, critical-path management, risk management, budget tracking, contract/vendor oversight, and change control.
• Experience coordinating network infrastructure deployments, system integration, testing, cutovers, commissioning, and production implementation.
• Experience working in mission-critical or highly available environments such as transit, transportation, utilities, telecommunications, government, data centers, industrial environments, or Operational Technology.
• Demonstrated ability to manage site readiness, field implementation dependencies, outages/maintenance windows, and operational coordination.
• Strong executive communication, meeting facilitation, issue escalation, and written status-reporting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Operational Technology (OT), enterprise networking, cybersecurity, or infrastructure modernization.
• Familiarity with Arista, CloudVision, Cisco networking, network segmentation, firewalls, monitoring/SIEM, and legacy network integration.
• Experience supporting public-sector, transit, transportation, or regulated infrastructure programs.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project-management certification.

Pay

The anticipated hourly wage is $90–$100/hour, W-2, depending on qualifications and experience.

Qualified applicants may be invited to participate in one or more interviews. References or other employment-related screenings may be requested as part of the selection process. MGT employees may be eligible for benefits.