General information
Ref Id: HREZ-2858
Published Date: Sep 4, 2025
Job location: Lansing, MI
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Job ID: 1885432
Employment type: Contract
Description
Project Manager
Location: Lansing, MI(Hybrid-Need Locals)
Duration: 12+ Months
Top Skills & Years of Experience:
- Strategic project oversight and accountability
- Large-scale project execution (6+ months, 20+ team members)
- Budget, scope, and schedule management
- Executive-level communication and reporting
- Risk and issue management
- Long-term release and resource planning
- Vendor coordination and contract oversight
- Leadership and team coordination
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Adaptability in dynamic environments
- Relationship-building across diverse stakeholder groups
Job Description:
- The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and a basic understanding of IT infrastructure and how the IT components interact via network communications. (Firewall, VIP, F5 Listener, Port, etm.)
- Possess a basic understanding of IT infrastructure components, including networks, servers, storage, web and virtual/cloud environments.
- Assist in evaluation of technical requirements and propose solutions that meet business objectives while adhering to SOM best practices and industry standards.
- This position provides oversight, leadership, accountability, and project management functions for one or more large size, complex projects.
- These projects typically utilize vendor participation and require complex schedules and integration with other systems.
- Large sized projects typically have durations longer than 6 months with 20 or more team members, require communication at the Agency Leadership level and have a medium to high risk.
This position will:
- Ensure consistency with the State of Michigan (SOM) project management methodology (SUITE), investment management and systems engineering methodology.
- Perform long-term release planning based on organizational direction.
- Regularly interact with the project management teams for status of budget, quality, and schedule.
- Escalate issues and risks as needed to executives and exercise project quality control activities to ensure project scope expectations are met.
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