Project Manager 3

Position location: Lansing, MI. Hybrid Role with 2 days onsite from day 1 - Tuesday and Wednesday (non-negotiable). Interviews: MS Teams video interview with camera ON. Second round interviews will be held in person at the Lansing, MI office. First round of interviews anticipated for the week of 1/20. Clear and concise communication skills required.

Top Skills & Years of Experience Required:

• 5 years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
• 5 years Agile Leadership Experience (document in resume).
• Past 5 years of experience must be as a Project Manager working on IT Projects.
• Documented experience managing an IT project in a large, complex enterprise-governed IT ecosystem.
• Microsoft DevOps Experience.

Job Description - Project Manager 3 ORS

This Project Manager will be responsible for a $20+ million modernization project, which will be highly complex, require extensive change and vendor management skills, and experience with Microsoft DevOps.

General responsibilities:

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams.
• Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsors.
• Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.
• Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Documents risks and develops mitigation plans.
• Manages scope.
• Creates and implements a communication plan.
• Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.
• Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsors.
• Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
• Provides technical support to project members.
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.
• Generally, manages a group of applications system analysts.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable.
• May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application or platform skills.
• Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project.
• Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts.
• Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers.
• Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency.
• Directs corrective actions in any area when performance falls below objectives.
• Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance.
• Self-directed and independent. Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects.
• Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
• Prepares reports for executives and upper management regarding status of project and presents status of projects in regularly scheduled program steering meetings.