Program Manager - First Tek : Job Details

Join our team in East Aurora, a vibrant location that offers a perfect blend of professional growth opportunities and a supportive community atmosphere. Our company is dedicated to fostering innovation and integrity, and we are looking for a driven individual to contribute to our dynamic and diverse team. Responsibilities

• Establish, refine, and report on program schedule, including management of individual workstream timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Facilitate team meetings for various program workstreams, ensuring deliverable progress is captured and driven to agreed-upon timelines, and minutes from meetings are captured and shared as appropriate.
• Manage financial tracking and planning for program expenses, including reconciliation of invoices against planned capital and operational expenses, tracking and maintenance of purchase requests against program workstream budgets, and updating budgets and cash flow forecasts.
• Track deliverable status for data center, compute, network, storage, database, cloud, and security workstreams and manage past due items to closure.
• Summarize progress, compile materials, and lead program steering committee discussions, ensuring to raise risks and actions to the committee for decision and support.

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams/projects at once - with ability to successfully navigate context switching between related but separate efforts.
• Foundational understanding of the infrastructure and security domains, including exposure to compute, network, storage, data center, and security projects.
• Experience with disaster recovery or business continuity topics is a plus.

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical field, and a minimum of ten years of work experience, with at least 5 years of program-related work experience.
• Must have excellent listening and persuasive skills to both understand and expedite where necessary.
• Strong people skills to handle stakeholders in a positive manner regardless of the situation.
• Ability to organize people, the ability to influence, and outstanding ability to communicate and facilitate.
• Proven knowledge and experience with formal project management, including use of project management tools.
• Must have good writing skills.

• Ongoing Training (RSO, Systems, Software Programs, OSHA Safety, JJ Keller, etc.)
• Continuous Employment Development and Learning
• Ongoing Advocacy, internal assets with HSE, Legal and HR teams and experts to aid in Employee Career Path and Advancement
• 401K
• Aetna Group Medical Coverage & Kaiser for California only
• Dental Insurance Coverage
• Vision Insurance Coverage
• Basic Life Insurance & AD&D
• Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability
• Direct Deposit
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts