Job Title: Project Management Engineer
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Contract
Job Summary
- As part of our continuous growth, we are seeking experienced Project Management Engineers to champion the successful execution of IT infrastructure projects.
- The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a proven ability to manage complex, high-impact projects within dynamic enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans and schedules; coordinate updates with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery.
- Lead and supervise the project execution team, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and timelines are achieved.
- Manage IT infrastructure projects encompassing networks, servers, virtualization, storage, and data center operations in a high-availability, ITIL-based environment.
- Oversee the full project lifecycle — from requirements definition, planning, and execution to transition and closure.
- Ensure smooth handover of completed projects to operations teams with comprehensive documentation and drawings.
- Manage project budgets, financials, and resource utilization to achieve delivery within agreed constraints.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues throughout project execution.
- Facilitate Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and participate in major incident and problem reviews.
- Conduct regular project reviews to assess performance, resourcing, and process compliance, and recommend improvements.
- Prepare and maintain key project documents, including charters, communication plans, and progress reports.
- Provide accurate project status updates and delivery performance reports to management and stakeholders.
- Foster collaboration across teams, resolving conflicts, aligning objectives, and ensuring accountability.
- Translate technical initiatives into measurable business outcomes, ensuring that project outcomes align with organizational goals.
- Actively contribute to workforce planning, capacity reviews, and project delivery governance.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years’ relevant post-NYSC experience in project management within the Telecommunications or Technology industry.
- Proven experience managing complex IT infrastructure projects in a fast-paced, high-availability environment.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure technologies including networks, servers, storage, data centers, and virtualization.
- Excellent understanding of project management frameworks (e.g., PMBOK, PRINCE2, Agile) and ITIL principles.
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and gain the respect of senior technical teams and stakeholders.
- Strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
- Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile) is an added advantage.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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