Project Manager #1057087

Fasttek; Okemos (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental

Vision

PTO

Disability (Long Term)

Life Insurance

401(k) match

Referral program

Recognition culture

Job summary

FastTek Global in Okemos, Michigan is seeking a Project Manager to plan, organize, and manage multiple small to medium projects to meet defined objectives. You will create project plans, budgets and timelines, identify staffing needs, and drive risk mitigation as part of delivering value.

Lead project teams, coordinate with vendors, and ensure timely delivery while maintaining quality and alignment with corporate standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with relevant coursework in business or computer science.
• 3–5 years' project management experience in systems development or support.
• Certification (PMP/PMI-ACP) preferred; knowledge of SAFe is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Creates project plans, defines scope, budgets and timelines.
• Oversees staff assignments and documents technical solutions.
• Monitors delivery across Agile teams to meet cost, time and quality goals.
• Communicates status to stakeholders and escalates risks as needed.
• Coordinates with Enterprise Portfolio Management Office to improve performance.
• Provides mentorship to other project teams and staff.
• Utilizes PPM and Agile tools to track progress and performance.

Skills

Project management

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or computer science

Job description

Okemos, Michigan Project Manager #1057087

Description

To plan, organize, and manage one or more small to medium sized projects to meet defined requirements or business objectives.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Creates project plans, defines scope, creates budgets and timelines, identifies staffing and other resource needs, prioritizes tasks, creates roadmaps, defines strategy, identifies and documents technical and business needs, develops risk mitigation plans, and ensures project objectives meet the defined business requirements.
• Executes project plans by overseeing staff assignments, facilitating meetings with the project team and end users to define and document technical solutions, engages external vendors as necessary, and executes operational readiness activities
• Monitors and tracks the progress of project deliverables across multiple Agile teams and business units and focuses on regular and timely delivery of value to ensure that established cost, time, and quality goals are met.
• Communicates project status with key stakeholders as needed, leads project team meetings as needed to assess project progress, prepares and distributes ongoing status updates, escalates issues and risk as appropriate, and manages and documents change.
• Coordinates project activities and process definition with the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office and other departments as necessary to improve project team performance and ensure documentation requirements and formats adhere to corporate standards
• Provides assistance, consultation, and mentoring to other project teams and Enterprise Portfolio Management Office staff.
• Utilize PPM and Agile tools to track and measure project and team progress, productivity, and individual performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Position requires a bachelor's degree with relevant coursework in business or computer science and three to five years' related work experience in project management with prior experience in systems development or support. Certification or advance degree in project management (i.e., Masters Certificate in Project Management or PMP/PMI-ACP-certification) is preferred. Basic knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practice is required. Experience working within a SAFe environment is preferred.
• Position requires advanced leadership skills; ability to analyze and resolve complex problems; use independent judgment and communicate effectively with internal and external contacts.
• The position will be working on multiple, small Infrastructure type projects and supporting senior level project managers on larger projects. Some experience with networking, hosting, database management would be helpful.

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories.Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashionedhard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!