Project Manager

Lansing, MI Hybrid Only Locals

One Year Contract

We are looking for the candidates who can work on our W2.

Interviews: MS Teams video interview with camera ON.

Hybrid Role with 2 days onsite from day 1 - Flexible days on site.

Local candidates ONLY

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:
• Small projects (<6 months, =10 team members, low risk).
• Medium projects (=6 months, >10 team members, medium/low risk).
• 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.