Project Manager 3
Company: Tekwissen
Location: Lansing
Posted on: May 2, 2024
Job Description:
Overview:
Tekwissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the
USA and many other countries in the world. The below Client runs
through fifteen executive departments which carry out the
day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular
departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights,
Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources,
Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of
career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and
administrative support, education and human services, IT and
computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law
enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With
positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is
waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity
Employer.
Job Title: Project Manager 3
Location: Lansing, MI, 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Contract
Job Description:
- This position provides oversight, leadership, accountability,
and project management functions for an upgrade of the operating
system for application and database servers for two
agencies.
- This effort will start in June 2024 and finish within 18
months.
- This position will ensure consistency with the client project
management methodology (SUITE), perform long-term release planning
based on organizational direction, regularly interact with the
project management teams for status of budget, quality and
schedule, escalate issues and risks as needed to executives and
exercise project quality control activities to ensure project scope
expectations are met.
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 sponsor and technical owners.
- 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,
monitors, and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources.
- Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies,
tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of
barriers.
- Provides Project Management technical support to project
members.
- Responsible for project activities that include complex
features and technical designs.
- 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 were 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 weekly reports for upper management regarding status
of project using Clarity reporting tool.
- Facilitates meetings and work sessions, including scheduling,
agenda preparation, taking/sharing notes, and following up with
action items.
Required experience:
- 5+ years of IT software Project Management experience managing
complex projects including coordination of multiple teams
- Experience with and knowledge of IT infrastructure, servers,
and web applications
- Strong oral and written communication skills; excellent problem
solving and analytical skills with expertise in identifying
risks
- Proven ability to drive project planning and execution process
and add value beyond just a task-oriented doer or project
manager
- Familiarity with systems development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Must be local to Lansing, client area. Work will be 2 days per
week in office and 3 days remote.
- Previous SOM experience highly desired
TekWissen - Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting
workforce diversity.
Keywords: Tekwissen, Kentwood , Project Manager 3, Executive , Lansing, Michigan
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