Technical Project Manager - IT Infrastructure & Agile Delivery

Pantex•Amarillo, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Technical Project Manager, you will help lead complex Information Technology (IT) infrastructure projects from start to finish, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and delivering results on scope, schedule, cost, and quality. You will drive cross‑team coordination, manage risks and dependencies proactively, and keep stakeholders informed through clear, consistent communication. Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of strategic IT projects, ensuring alignment with company strategies, policies, methodologies, and goals. Lead complex IT infrastructure projects through the full lifecycle—including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure—while applying agile delivery principles and ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality expectations. Manage day-to‑day project activities, including project team formation, execution plan development, deliverable tracking, and stakeholder communication. Establish clear accountability across all assigned project resources, ensuring ownership of deliverables, tasks, outcomes, and adherence to commitments. Drive strong cross‑team collaboration and coordination across infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, applications, and external partners to ensure seamless execution and rapid resolution of cross-functional challenges. Identify, map, and manage inter‑project and cross‑team dependencies, ensuring sequence clarity, resource alignment, and early detection of schedule or scope impacts. Proactively surface, document, and communicate risks, issues, and decisions (RID) using a structured and transparent approach, with timely escalation to leadership when needed. Develop and maintain comprehensive project execution plans, including milestones, resource loading, budget oversight, and cost management. Develop and maintain complete and accurate technical and project documentation in accordance with procedures. Ensure effective and consistent communication across all project stakeholders; provide weekly and/or monthly briefings to upper management on cost, schedule, status, risks, and technical performance. Participate in departmental processes such as planning, budgeting, and scheduling. Some travel may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline. OR Master's degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline. OR applicants without a bachelor's degree may be considered based on a combination of at least 8 years of completed education and/or relevant experience.
Proven experience leading delivery‑focused IT infrastructure projects, preferably in organizations undergoing modernization or technology transformation
Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification OR Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Leading SAFe Certification
Experience with JIRA, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, or equivalent project management and work‑tracking tools
Strong interpersonal, communication, organizational, and time‑management skills
Deep understanding of risk management, mitigation strategies, and contingency planning
Scrum Master Certification and Agile Project Management Certification preferred
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations and ServiceNow Agile Development/Project module experience preferred
Highly motivated with demonstrated success delivering multiple concurrent, complex IT infrastructure and/or software development projects in fast‑paced environments
Knowledge of PMI best practices, project lifecycle management, and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Ability to lead multi‑disciplinary technical and functional teams and collaborate with internal/external stakeholders at all levels
Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
Experience in conflict resolution.
Exercises initiative and independent judgment under limited supervision
Experience serving as a Scrum Master and executing agile projects is desired
Ability to enforce accountability, maintain structured Risk, Assumption, Issues, Decisions) (RAID) tracking, manage dependencies, and drive clarity in complex project environments
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status.
The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP).
If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 709.
Medical requirements may apply.
Pantex is a drug-free workplace.
Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation.
As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter.
U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants.
All employees are subject to random selection for drug testing without advance notification.
Pantex is an equal opportunity employer, and does not tolerate discrimination in the terms and conditions of employment on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law.
Such terms and conditions of employment include, but are not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.
Pantex takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans; including disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active-duty wartime, or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans.
All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification OR Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Leading SAFe Certification
Scrum Master Certification and Agile Project Management Certification preferred
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations and ServiceNow Agile Development/Project module experience preferred
Experience serving as a Scrum Master and executing agile projects is desired

Responsibilities

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of strategic IT projects, ensuring alignment with company strategies, policies, methodologies, and goals
Lead complex IT infrastructure projects through the full lifecycle—including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure—while applying agile delivery principles and ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality expectations
Manage day-to‑day project activities, including project team formation, execution plan development, deliverable tracking, and stakeholder communication
Establish clear accountability across all assigned project resources, ensuring ownership of deliverables, tasks, outcomes, and adherence to commitments
Drive strong cross‑team collaboration and coordination across infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, applications, and external partners to ensure seamless execution and rapid resolution of cross-functional challenges
Identify, map, and manage inter‑project and cross‑team dependencies, ensuring sequence clarity, resource alignment, and early detection of schedule or scope impacts
Proactively surface, document, and communicate risks, issues, and decisions (RID) using a structured and transparent approach, with timely escalation to leadership when needed
Develop and maintain comprehensive project execution plans, including milestones, resource loading, budget oversight, and cost management
Develop and maintain complete and accurate technical and project documentation in accordance with procedures
Ensure effective and consistent communication across all project stakeholders; provide weekly and/or monthly briefings to upper management on cost, schedule, status, risks, and technical performance
Participate in departmental processes such as planning, budgeting, and scheduling