IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Summary: The role of Infrastructure Project Manager involves overseeing IT infrastructure projects, including network upgrades and site designs across the UK and Ireland. The position requires hands-on support during outages and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The manager will also be responsible for project planning, risk management, and vendor coordination. Regular travel to various sites is expected as part of the role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on support during network upgrades, cutovers, and infrastructure changes.
• Attend sites across the UK & Ireland during unplanned outages to assist with diagnosis, recovery, and service restoration.
• Support LAN/WAN/Wi-Fi troubleshooting, equipment replacement, patching, cabling, and physical device validation.
• Work with partners and business leaders to capture requirements for new office and factory networks.
• Develop implementation timelines, produce high-level and low-level designs, and gather cost estimates.
• Project manage network deployments or significant changes, maintaining risk registers, project plans, delivery trackers, and stakeholder updates.
• Coordinate infrastructure activities across Business, Real Estate, Digital Core / Infrastructure, and external vendors.
• Communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Manage incidents in multi-site or industrial environments and influence stakeholders regarding outage periods.

Key Skills:

• Experience contributing to or managing IT infrastructure projects.
• Ability to produce project plans, track delivery dependencies, and maintain risk logs.
• Vendor and partner coordination skills.
• Strong incident management experience in multi-site or industrial environments.
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and negotiate outage periods.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Manchester

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT