Project Manager

Hello There,

My name is Himanshu Sharma , and I serve as the Recruitment Lead at Kanak-IT INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of Project Manager with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at [email protected]

Job Description

Positon : Project Manager (mid level)

Location : Detroit or Lansing, MI Hybrid (2 days a week onsite)

Duration : Long term contract

Interview : 2 nd round will be onsite

Job Description:

• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
• Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
• May work under supervision of Senior Project or Program Manager, assisting with larger, more complex initiatives.
• This PMO area supports the Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity, including State Housing Development Corporation and Unemployment Insurance Agency, in addition to the Attorney General's office.
• Project and program work may be assigned in any of these areas according to work demands.

Roles and responsibilities:

• 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.

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

2+ years experience with Azure DevOps

2+ years experiences with the SharePoint Platform

2+ years of Business Analyst/ Test Coordination experience

Minimum 2 years of experience as a Project Manager.

Exposure to Clarity

Exposure to Project Methodology

Skill Matrix