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Project Manager III

TekWissen LLC

  • Lansing, MI
  • 1 day ago
  • $81.22

Highlights

This position will ensure consistency with the Client project management methodology (SUITE), 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. Job Title: Project Manager III Location: Lansing, MI, 48933 Duration: 12 Months Job Type: Hybrid Work Type: Temporary Assignment Shift: 8.00AM 5.00 PM Job Description: This position provides oversight, leadership, accountability and project management functions for large strategic projects and programs with high visibility at the Agency Executive level.

Numbers & Facts

LocationLansing, MI
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$81.22
Company Size100 to 499 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions tour clients worldwide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the daytoday administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Title: Project Manager III
Location: Lansing, MI, 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Shift: 8.00AM 5.00 PM
Job Description:
This position provides oversight, leadership, accountability and project management functions for large strategic projects and programs with high visibility at the Agency Executive level. These projects and programs require a fully dedicated project manager due to the level of complexity, degree of intricate detail and accountability to executive leadership. Strategic projects typically have a large diverse set of stakeholders, utilize vendor participation, require coordination of multiple complex schedules and significant integration with other systems. Strategic projects typically have durations of 2 years or longer with 50 or more team members, require communication at the Agency Executive level and have a significant risk. This position will ensure consistency with the Client project management methodology (SUITE), 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.
Job Responsibilities:
  • Manage direct engagement with stakeholders and vendors, dedicating approximately 15 20% of time to executive-level communication, including high-level project oversight, stakeholder alignment, and leading monthly sponsor meetings to provide project health updates
  • Serves as a central point of coordination between product owners, development leadership, and business stakeholders to ensure clarity in release scope and expectations.
  • Proven track record of taking ownership of program or operational functions, including designing intake models, defining governance structures, and driving execution independently without requiring significant direction.
  • Provide planning, staffing, and reporting to ensure the successful completion of assigned projects according to the sponsor's goals and objectives. Planning, staffing and reporting should adhere to the Client 's SUITE Project Management Methodology and the Agency's project prioritization process. Planning, staffing and reporting spans the entire lifecycle of the project from initiation to closeout.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently in ambiguous environments, establishing work intake processes, governance frameworks, and operational procedures with minimal oversight.
  • Perform miscellaneous functions as needed to contribute to the overall operation and objectives of the Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB).
  • Highly self-directed professional capable of assessing organizational needs, building governance and work intake processes from the ground up, and creating sustainable operating models that enable effective prioritization, decision-making, and execution
Required Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience working effectively in team environments within matrix organizations
  • 5+ years of experience resolving complex, high-priority conflicts and competing requirements
  • 5+ years of experience applying Project Management principles, methodologies, and best practices
  • 5+ years of experience with system development methodologies for building new systems and enhancing existing information systems
  • 5+ years of experience communicating stakeholder needs clearly and effectively
  • 5+ years of experience communicating across teams, building consensus, facilitating working sessions, and negotiating outcomes
  • 5+ years of experience managing stakeholder relationships, maintaining positive interactions, and resolving issues
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Previous experience working in a government or public sector environment is preferred
  • Experience in multiple relevant roles (e.g., Project Manager, Program Manager, Project Coordinator, or similar leadership/support roles) is preferred
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



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