Who are we?
Founded in 1998, PlanNet21 are a multi-award winning technology solutions provider with headquarters in Dublin Ireland.
We employee over 100 full time staff with regional offices across Cork, Galway, Belfast, and Edinburgh.
Since our inception PlanNet21s heritage was built upon pioneering technical innovation and excellence and this continues with some of the key customers PlanNet21 work alongside today.
Throughout our 26-year history PlanNet21 have built up key strategic technology partnerships with some of the world leading technology vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, HPE Aruba, Juniper, Nutanix, IBM among many others.
We hold a number of advanced industry specialisations across enterprise networks, security, cloud, unified communications and collaboration, contact centre services and bespoke software development solutions.
With our unified architecture approach, we possess all the key attributes to evaluate, design, commission and support complex solutions for some of the industrys most prestigious customers across a range of sectors including enterprise, public sector, education and global multinationals.
Technical Project Manager (TPM) Role Overview The Technical project manager will have responsibility for the end-to-end deployment and integration of customer networking solutions.
The Technical project manager will have responsibility for the implementation of all technical aspects of the customer project from initial pricing and planning to securing equipment, installation, integration, cost, risk management, change control, quality, and customer acceptance for a variety of network infrastructure projects.
He or She will work closely with a technical team of Network and Security Architects and Engineers on network and security integration projects, while engaging with 3rd party vendors and customer staff.
The TPM will be the single point of contact for delivery and integration and may be required to supervise the work of 3rd party vendors and customer personnel to deliver the project on time and on budget.
We are open to considering both contractors and permanent employees for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop project plans from discussions with all key stakeholders including architects, customer and internal management.
Detailed risk management associated with all projects covering costs, resources, equipment, scope creep, integration and any other risks that come during project.
Be able to negotiate with 3rd parties, management and customer, to secure required resources, equipment, down time requirements, associated with implementing projects within budget and schedule.
Have the ability to manage and motivate people to ensure that project tasks are carried out according to the project schedule.
Engagement with customer for project implementation and support.
Act as a key customer interface for all project related issues.
Manage the resolution of these issues as they arise.
Lead regular project meetings and status updates with customer.
Provide regular reports to all project stakeholders.
Manage and monitor project and control progress against a baseline plan.
Participate in early deployment and integration activities.
Identification of new business opportunities.
Essential Skills, Experience & Qualifications Minimum 8 years experience as a Project Manager in Telecommunications or IT.
Experience working in a complex customer environment with several simultaneous demands working to tight deadlines.
Good computer skills / experience with MS Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, and MS Project.
Excellent communications skills and negotiations skills.
Good knowledge of IP infrastructure Switches, Routers and Firewalls.
Networking experience including IP, 4G, 5G and security.
Excellent customer engagement, leadership and management experience.
Full, clean drivers licence.
Willingness to assist technical engineers to get the project phases across the line if required.
Flexibility to work in multiple locations (in Dublin) for a customer and flexibility to travel at short notice, if required.
Exceptional organisational and management experience.
Desirable Skills Engineering degree or bachelors degree in a related field (Computer/Telecom).
Experience with early deployment and integration activities (Technical).
Strong Visio experience, creating and reviewing Low Level technical Design diagrams.
Experience with Data Centre operations, general onsite behaviour and processes.
Experience with data centre installations, power installations & network cabling standards.
High level understanding of general enterprise and carrier grade hardware such as blade enclosures (HP, Cisco & IBM), Servers (HP, Cisco & IBM), Routers (Cisco), firewalls (Cisco, Checkpoint & Fortinet), Switching (Cisco), Load Balancers (F5 & Cisco) including the installation and racking of these nodes in a data centre environment.
Experience working with Tier 1 Mobile Network Service providers.
Experience managing 3rd party vendors / suppliers.
Good understanding of customer trends and industry trends.
Why choose PlanNet21?
PlanNet21 Communications doesnt just hire good people.
We hire the best people possible.
By joining PlanNet21 you join an exciting community of developers, engineers, employees, partners and customers who are committed to building next generation of communications networks.
The secret of our success is the people we recruit and were looking for the best.
You need an enquiring mind, a proven ability to solve complex problems and have an outstanding academic record.
Join us and youll find that the focus is all about you.
Youre recognised and treated as an individual.
Your training is unique to you and will continue throughout your career.
The only constant is that you will be challenged and stretched, but within a supportive environment, working with some of the brightest minds in the business.
Structured Career Path Financially Stable Employer Exposure to Industry Giants Challenging Environment Ongoing Training & Development Flexible Working Environment Generous Benefits & Package PlanNet21 Communications is an Equal Opportunities Employer committed to Diversity and Inclusion.
Skills:
Project Management Technical skills network engineering telecommuncations Benefits: Work From Home Many