IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager Utilities 1 day per week in Warwick 6 months £500 per day

In short: We're seeking a mid-senior level IT PM who can coordinate activities whilst support the Testing and Integration Programme Manager in a resilience team.

Role Purpose: Provide coordination and delivery support to the Tech Services workstream lead across testing, operational readiness, and tooling integration (e.g. SolarWinds, ServiceNow), ensuring decisions are translated into clear plans, tracking and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Tech Services workstream lead by turning strategy and direction into concrete plans, trackers and action lists across testing and operational readiness.
• Coordinate internal verification, audit/build validation, and testing activities, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks and issues.
• Act as daily coordinator for defect and testing data, ensuring accurate status views (e.g. scenarios, test cases, defect counts/age/rework) are available for governance forums.
• Provide governance support: schedule meetings, prepare agendas and notes, maintain RAID/action logs, and ensure follow-through across multiple stakeholder groups.

Candidate Profile

• Strong project coordination / PM experience ideally in infrastructure, service management or testing/ops-heavy programmes.
• Familiarity with testing/defect management, operational readiness, and service management concepts (CMDB, RTM, ITIL) is advantageous.
• Comfortable working with data and reporting (Excel/Power BI exposure) and translating business questions into reporting requirements.
• Familiarity with Jira/JSM/SNOW is advantageous
• Excellent organisational and stakeholder skills, able to manage multiple streams of work with minimal supervision

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.

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