About this role

Project Manager

Hybrid 4 days onsite in Greenwood Village, CO
Our client seeks a Project Manager to drive a portfolio of high-priority network equipment reliability issues from investigation through fix, deployment, and closeout. The role sits within a Reliability and Quality PMO and partners with Principal Engineers who own technical solutions, while the PM owns planning, tracking, coordination, and delivery cadence across initiatives focused on reliability, quality, production issues, security-related work, data-oriented efforts, and platform stability improvements. This is not a traditional budget-heavy PM role.
Rate: 48.00 to 56.00/hr. w2
JN -112026-109436

Manage multiple concurrent reliability initiatives across investigation, development, deployment, and mitigation stages.
Build and maintain project plans with milestones, owners, dependencies, and dates.
Partner with Principal Engineers to define measurements and success criteria, document agreements, and secure alignment.
Track deployment progress and validate that fixes move target metrics.
Confirm mitigations hold and align on closure criteria.
Drive evidence-based outcomes for issues under investigation.
Coordinate with external vendors on data requests, root cause updates, and fix timelines.
Track defects and release dates, and flag early when fixes miss release trains.
Run working sessions, capture notes, assign actions, and follow up.
Maintain and track open actions, risks, blockers, and decisions with timely escalation.
Keep Jira tickets current and aligned to plans.
Send concise, factual status updates with red/yellow/green ratings.
Prepare executive-ready status inputs for leadership reviews.

Experience Requirements:

Project management experience delivering reliability, quality, production issue, security-related, or data-oriented initiatives.
Ability to create structure from loosely defined problems and operate amid ambiguity.
Proactive stakeholder engagement and clear written communication, including documentation and status reporting.
Comfort presenting to leadership.
Knowledge of SDLC.
Proficiency with Jira, Rally, or similar tracking and documentation tools.
Nice to have: Telecom background and traditional PM experience.

Project Manager