Senior Project Manager (PM3) - Local to MI
Summary
Senior IT Project Manager (PM3) supporting the State of Michigan PMO and Department of Treasury on a multi-year IT project — building schedules, budgets, risk logs, and status reports using Clarity and MS Project while managing vendors, technical teams, and stakeholders. Hybrid: 2 onsite days/week in Dimondale, MI.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager (PM3) to support the State of Michigan Project Management Office and Michigan Department of Treasury on a high-priority, multi-year IT project.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, resource plans, and project documentation using Clarity.
- Monitor and control project scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, and risks.
- Prepare and present project status reports to executives, stakeholders, and project teams.
- Manage stakeholder communications and coordinate with technical and business teams.
- Develop and maintain SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables, including project charters, schedules, budgets, communication plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, and project closure documents.
- Coordinate project interfaces and communications across multiple agencies.
- Ensure compliance with State of Michigan SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM).
- Manage change requests, corrective action plans, risks, and issues.
- Review vendor contracts, monitor vendor deliverables, and ensure compliance with approval procedures.
- Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and agency leadership.
- Manage technical teams responsible for system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.
- 7+ years of IT project management experience.
- 7+ years of successfully delivering projects on time and within budget.
- 7+ years of experience managing project budgets, schedules, change requests, risks, and issues.
- 7+ years of experience developing and presenting project status reports.
- 5+ years of experience using project portfolio management tools such as Clarity.
- 5+ years of advanced working knowledge of MS Project.
- 5+ years of experience managing stakeholders and system owners across departments.
- 5+ years of experience overseeing technical teams involving system architecture and SaaS integrations.
- 5+ years of experience managing IT projects involving Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technology.
- 5+ years of experience managing multi-vendor projects in a government environment.
- 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules.
- 5+ years of prior developer or senior technical project management experience.
- 5+ years of experience with Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM).
Highly Desired Qualifications
- Scrum Master Certification.
- PMP Certification.
- ADA Compliance experience.
- File Transfer Service experience.
- Local candidates only (within 90 miles of Dimondale, MI).
- Must be available to work onsite starting Day 1.
- Mandatory onsite days: Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Hybrid work arrangement: 2 days onsite and 3 days remote