Job Title: Transition Manager (T&T Program Management)

Project Name: Transition Management

Job Location: Customer Site: Tucson, AZ
 

Job Description:

Skills Overview (list or overview) The Transition Program Manager position provides overall leadership and direction to the Transition team for large and complex projects in the initiating, planning, controlling, executing, and closing phases. Transition Program Manager has oversight responsibility for several to many PMs working under them to meet contract scope, deliverables, time frames, and budgets. This person will works hand in hand with the TTIM, reporting program status to the TTIM for inclusion in customer status presentations and organizational status reporting. Transition Program Manager ensures process execution and compliance to the documented TTPM Transition process as related to the Repeatable Model. Transition Program Manager manages and monitors risk, changes, and issues. Works to escalate issues to resolution as needed. This person initiates PCRs as needed and manages requests into RFS as appropriate. Transition Program Manager always keeps their project auditready by maintaining security checklists and compliance as appropriate. PMI certification is preferred. Position’s main office can be a home office, however a minimum of 50% travel to the customer or other site should be expected. May include some weekend and/or off shift hours work to meet deliverables

Job Requirements & Criteria:

Candidates must possess the following minimum skills:

1. PM Methodology and Processes - (Overall understanding of project management methods and processes.

2. PM Tools experience (Candidate demonstrates understanding and effective application of PCB, MS Project, other tools/forms/methods)

3. Contractual Agreements (experience writing, contributing to, or otherwise working with DOUs, SOWs, procurement, contracts, etc.)

4. Understanding of project integration and scope management, project plan development, agreement & execution (initiation and planning, charter, WBS, PDR.., change mgt, PCRs.)

5. Project Cost Management (How did the candidate track/control project human resources and other costs, track/control earned value?)

6. Communications/Leadership and project communications. management, including performance reporting and lessons learned at start and closeout

7. Project Quality Management (QA reviews before, during, after project life cycle)

8. Risk management, (risk planning, analysis, monitoring and control, including escalations)

9. Experience and suitability to work with commercial/external customers

Candidate should also have several of the following areas of experience: ·

Problem and Change Process · Problem and Change Tools · Measurements and Reporting · Platform Services (Midrange, AS400, MF) · Deskside Services · Service/Helpdesk · Network Services · Asset Services · Security Services · PIM · Disaster Recovery · Data Center Relocation and Built · Server Consolidation Years of

Experience (minimum years) 3

Educational Requirements (minimum requirements)

Pricing Level ( Master, Journeyman, Novice) Journeyman

Work shift? (1st, 2nd or 3rd) 1st

Weekend coverage? (Yes or No) Yes

On call? (Yes or No) No

Travel required? (Yes or No) Yes

Will candidate work from home or customer site? Customer site

Job Duration: 1 + year
Employment status: W2/Contract

Work Shift: 1st shift

Weekend Coverage: Weekend coverage is required.

On Call: Does not need to be on-call

Travel Required: Travel is required.

About our client: 
Pay Rate: see recruiter for details

About Us
CDI Corp. (NYSE: CDI) seeks to create extraordinary outcomes with our clients by delivering solutions based on highly skilled and professional talent. Our client offerings include an array of engineering design project solutions, information technology project solutions and managed services, specialty technology staff augmentation, and program and managed staffing services. Our clients are corporations in multiple industries, including energy, chemicals, infrastructure, aerospace, industrial equipment, technology, as well as municipal and state governments, and the U.S. Department of Defense. We have offices and delivery centers in the United States and Canada.  we provide recruiting and staffing services through our global MRINetwork® of franchisees.  We have 60 years of experience placing people in contract and full-time positions with clients in a broad range of industries with a specialization in IT and engineering recruiting with focus in the United States and Canada. 

If you are interested in this position, or other positions in the area of Program/Project Management, Business Analyst or Operations, please contact CDI Recruiter: Theresa Wilkerson, Theresa.Wilkerson@cdicorp.com, or (415) 613-2829