Role Overview

BEM Systems, An Aventia Company, delivers innovative SaaS, AI-enabled, GIS-integrated, and mobile solutions to Departments of Transportation (DOTs), transit agencies, and government organizations. Our flagship PAECETrak platform supports right-of-way, utilities, permitting, infrastructure management, and related business processes through secure, configurable cloud-based applications.

We are seeking a disciplined, client-focused Senior Project Manager to lead complex enterprise software implementations and upgrades for government clients. The role is accountable for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, governance, organizational change, stakeholder communication, and transition to operations.

The ideal candidate brings exceptional scope management, experience delivering $1M-$5M enterprise projects, strong SaaS and fixed-price project controls, and practical use of AI tools to improve delivery efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery: Lead multiple concurrent enterprise software implementations and upgrades from kickoff through acceptance and transition to support.
• Planning and Controls: Own project plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, resources, milestones, dependencies, and delivery reporting.
• Scope and Commercial Management: Maintain requirements traceability, enforce SOW and change control to prevent scope creep, and manage margin and invoicing.
• Client Leadership: Serve as the primary client contact and lead status meetings, working sessions, steering committees, demonstrations, and executive communications.
• Team Leadership: Coordinate cross-functional teams across analysis, configuration, development, integrations, migration, testing, training, deployment, and support.
• Risk, Quality, and Governance: Manage risks, issues, decisions, actions, acceptance, document control, and delivery quality; escalate concerns and drive corrective action.
• Implementation and Change Management: Lead readiness, testing, training, go-live, stabilization, stakeholder communications, adoption, and organizational change activities.
• AI-Enabled Project Management: Use approved AI and automation tools to improve planning, reporting, meeting follow-up, risk analysis, documentation, and delivery efficiency with appropriate human review and security controls.
• Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned and improve delivery methods, templates, estimates, metrics, and portfolio visibility.