What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at DRS IT Solutions Inc?
Must be local to Lansing, Michigan area.
US Citizens local to Lansing/Michigan will only be considered
Ideal for candidates willing to work in 1099 Contract roles
No C2C
Work will be Tuesday and Wednesday in office; Monday, Thursday, and Friday can be remote (non-negotiable).
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.
Desired experience:
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.
Program management experience highly desired; experience working with other project managers to ensure technology integration between systems.
Provide name and telephone number of three professional references that can speak to project and/or program management experience.
Best Regards,
Nisha Miriam George,
DRS IT Solutions, Inc
28175 Haggerty Road,
Novi, MI 48377
(C) 248-440-7600 EXT -3
(F) 248-859-4430
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisha-george-0a7b39206/
nisha@drsitsolutions.com
www.drsitsolutions.com
An E-Verified Company
Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBENC) Certified Women Owned Small Business (WOSB)
Salary : $20
