Project Manager

Lansing, MI

Contract 1 year

Top Skills & Years of Experience Required:

Project Management Experience - 5 years

Enterprise Management Tools - 3 years

SUITE - Preferred

SOM Experience - Preferred

• Managing projects with different sizes and risks:

o Small projects (<6 months, =10 team members, low risk).

o Medium projects (=6 months, >10 team members, medium/low risk).

o Large projects (>6 months, =20 team members, medium/high risk).

• Ensuring consistency with the State of Michigan (SOM) project management, investment management, and systems engineering methodology (SUITE).
• Performing long-term release planning based on organizational direction.
• Regularly interacting with project management teams to update the status of budget, quality, and schedule.
• Escalating issues and risks as needed.
• Exercising project quality control activities to meet project scope expectations.

This position serves as a senior-level IT project manager, providing oversight, leadership, and accountability for multiple small to medium-sized projects simultaneously or for a single large project. Responsibilities include:

• Functioning as a PMO resource to DTMB managers, supervisors, and staff involved in application maintenance and development.
• Developing, maintaining, and overseeing project schedules that are logical and resource-driven.
• Maintaining the change control process, managing, and tracking changes in scope.
• Identifying project issues and risks, escalating to senior management as appropriate.
• Monitoring project performance, reporting status, and facilitating the creation of action plans to ensure adherence to project schedules.
• Interacting with various teams to develop and maintain project schedules and related documents.
• Assisting in information gathering, budget analysis, project estimating, and procurement.
• Providing assistance on special projects and promoting compliance with the State Unified Information Technology Environment (SUITE), potentially utilizing Scrum methodology and practices.