Project Manager

Job description

Description:

**This position must be on site 2 days a week in Lansing, MI**

Skills:

•Documented experience in successfully managing IT projects (full project lifecycle) > $2 Million - 7 years

•Proven record of delivery project on time and on budget - 5 years

•Managing of IT Agile development projects - 4 years

•Experience performing scope management for projects, including a disciplined change control - 5 years

•Experience performing issues management across multiple departments - 5 years

•Experience creating and executing implementation plans - 5 years

•Experience in delivering excellent verbal and written communication with clients and technical staff - 5 years

•Preference will be given to candidates with PMP or other certification - 3 years

•Understanding of SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - 3 years

•IT Development Project Management experience - 5 years

Responsibilities

•Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.

•Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.

•Accountable for efficient and effective ongoing communication with the vendor throughout the project lifecycle.

•Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment. Advocates as necessary to ensure project success.

•Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle:

oProject Charter - Project Schedule - Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary

•Responsible for project health and quality by adhering to established quality and compliance processes.

•Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.

•Responsible for actively evaluating the project to anticipate, identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks and issues. Escalates risks and issues when needed.

•Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.

•Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in Yellow or Red status.

•Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.

•Responsible for project team adherence to information governance activities.

•Responsible for understanding project interdependencies and ensuring appropriate and timely discussions and actions occur when a project change may have an impact.

•Responsible for completion of the project tailoring process to determine the PMM and SEM deliverables for the project.

•Responsible for following the project Notice of Decision procedure for all major project decisions, including a Build vs. Buy decision.

•Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.

•Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

•Functions as the Scrum Master for Agile projects, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives

Skills:

Project management, Agile, Pmp, Sdlc, Ms project

Top Skills Details:

Project management, Agile, Pmp, Sdlc, Ms project

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

strong communication skills

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.