Job Description :
Launch Your Career with Cook Systems
Ready to elevate your career? Cook Systems, a certified veteran owned IT consulting firm, has been transforming businesses and careers since 1990. Whether you're aiming to work with a Fortune 500 company or a small business, we've got you covered.
Our core values: integrity, investment, and innovation drive everything we do, ensuring you grow and succeed in a dynamic, supportive environment. We understand the importance of work life balance and personal growth. Our cutting edge IT consulting partners and FastTrack talent program are designed to help you excel.
Join our forward thinking team where excellence and creativity are valued every day. Check out what our associates have to say on Glassdoor. Ready to take your career to new heights? Cook Systems is where your journey to success begins!
2 Submittals- Web Cam Interview - Rate/candidate's hourly Pay Rate is competitive
1 year contract plus!
IT Project Manager (PM) will assist in the management of multiple internal and external end to end technical projects, documentation, and processes while reinforcing defined infrastructure and software best practices.
The PM will assist with implementing process improvement, documentation management, organization, and project guidelines to ensure project follow through, timeliness, and accuracy.
Local candidates. (Hybrid work schedule)
Experience with Workday HCM applications highly desirable.
Core Competencies
Communication to collaborate often and follow-up with and support engineering management
Attention to Detail to review incoming emails, timelines, resources, and process alignment
Organization of daily project elements garnered in meetings that need to be planned and organized
Flexibility to adapt to changing program demands
Data Visualization Creation and Analysis that comes in the form of dashboards and data to help understand velocity
Responsibilities
Collaborate with other project managers, clients, vendors, and engineering teams on various projects, presentations, and meetings.
Understand Agile practices and use them in a hybrid organization to facilitate project tracking in a traditional project schedule and use Kanban and Scrum practices with development and engineering teams.
Provide attention to detail to internal and external email communications to analyze in order to produce relevant and valuable responses to maintain organizational relationships and project visibility.
Identify relevant audiences for meetings, ensuring thorough meeting preparation and creating project charter and kick off presentations that provide information such as business driver, targeted audience, communications plan, scope, project phases, and next steps for planning project schedule activities with technical teams.
Conduct meeting analysis that results in facilitation of routine meetings/ceremonies to track projects and maintain project boards and dashboards using Jira and ServiceNow.
Understand when and how to escalate to other groups when necessary.
Consistently maintain project status, update project roadmaps, and adhere to defined project structure standards with the integrated tool stack provided.
Ability to draft process and 'how to' documentation.
Assist with identifying project constraints, risks, inefficiencies, and areas where processes can be improved and/or reinforced.
Reinforce agreed upon priorities, policies, and team best practices.
Utilize project management software i.e., SharePoint Project Template, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Project Online, etc.
Maintain, update, and archive project documentation.
Familiar with all functions of Outlook including alert functions and the ability to schedule meetings utilizing the Scheduling Assistant.
Generate and archive notes from project meetings that add value to management decision-making
Ensure communication channels are made available for all projects to enable adequate communication and escalation process among project team members.
Experience
3 to 5 years of project management in technology
Some college experience or applicable certifications (preferred) or college degree (preferred)
Highly proficient in writing and editing
3 to 5 years of IT project management experience in an enterprise environment
Required
3
Years
Utilize project management software i.e., SharePoint Project Template, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Project Online, etc.
Required
3
Years
Why Work with Us
Benefits
At Cook Systems, we don't just offer jobs we build futures. Our team is the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to supporting you with benefits that go beyond the basics. We want you to feel secure, valued, and empowered from the very beginning of your journey with us. When you join Cook Systems, here's what you can look forward to:
Your Health, Your Way: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, complete with dental and vision coverage. With access to one of the nation's largest networks, you'll get the care you need for yourself and your family wherever life takes you.
Peace of Mind, Every Step of the Way: Protect what matters most with life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum. Because your loved ones deserve security no matter what the future holds.
Flexibility for Life's Needs: Save money and plan ahead with a Flexible Spending Account and Daycare FSA through Navia, helping you manage healthcare and dependent care expenses on your terms.
Bridging the Gaps: Unexpected costs? No problem. Our Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife helps ensure you're covered when it counts.
Your Future Starts Now: Dream big with our 401(k) retirement plan through The Standard. After just six months, you will be eligible to participate, because your future deserves a strong foundation.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee you're family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Together, we innovate, grow, and celebrate success every step of the way. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.