Project Manager

Job Location : Available to work Hybrid, Lansing, MI.

Note : local candidate only, 2 days onsite from day 1 - Tuesday and Wednesday. : In-person interview REQUIRED, second round MS Virtual Teams

Job Description :

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. 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 sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.

Provides technical support to project team 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 where 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 upper management regarding status of project

Advanced experience managing programs of projects, complex projects or multiple projects. Demonstrated and advanced understanding of project management methodologies.

Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A significant degree of creativity and latitude is required.

Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment

Requirements

Skills Set : Skill

Skill

Required / Desired

Experience

experience managing development and infrastructure projects

Required

5 years

Strong Knowledge of project management processes and methodologies, such as Scrum and Agile

Required

5 years

Strong experience managing project scope schedule and cost

Required

5 years

Experience developing cost estimates, and project’s resources requirement

Required

5 years

Great communication and leadership skills

Required

5 years