Senior Project Manager – Onsite Leader (Lansing)

Dewpoint; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dewpoint in Lansing, MI seeks a Project Manager to lead full lifecycle initiatives, from initiation to close. You will plan, schedule, monitor, control and deliver projects on time and within budget, guiding cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.

The successful candidate brings 5+ years of PM experience, a strong customer-service orientation, and proven ability to handle complex programs (>$1M) with disciplined project management practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education, experience and training may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.
• 5+ years full project management experience implementing projects through a project life-cycle process.
• Proven experience independently leading medium to large sized/complexity high-priority projects (minimum $1M+, 1year+).
• Excellent customer service, communication, interpersonal and documentation skills.
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem–solving capabilities.
• Experience mentoring and coaching project management staff.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of the project, over the entire project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, control, close).
• Leads and directs projects, which often require multiple resources and low to moderate levels of functional integration and interaction with Stakeholders.
• Interfaces with the project sponsor and other key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Conducts regular meetings with stakeholders, to present project status, issues, risks, accomplishments and next steps.
• Interfaces with all areas affected by the project, including end users, business leadership, technology and vendors.
• Ensures adherence to quality standards for project deliverables.
• Assigns individual responsibilities, identifies appropriate resources as needed, and develops and maintains a project schedule to enable timely completion of the project.
• Reviews and approves/denies time off requests, ensuring appropriate project coverage.
• Manages and reports financial aspects of the project against assigned budgets.
• Creation of all required project management documents, leveraging project team members as needed.
• Assists with the creation and quality review of other project documents.
• Plans, documents and manages scope, budget, issues, risks, changes, deliverables, communications, quality, and schedule for projects.
• Holds project team members accountable for project delivery commitments.
• Manage dashboards and executive reports.
• Establishing and maintaining a professional relationship with the vendor and holding vendor teams accountable for contractual commitments.
• Work with the Program Manager to communicate project status across the organization.
• Track risks/issues to closure and communicate the status to the PMO organization.
• Exhibit executive presence and attend leadership meetings when required.
• Establish and maintain required project metrics.
• In the absence of Program Management Plan, develops project management standards and ensures they are followed.
• Ensure that project lessons learned, and continuous improvement action plans are identified, captured, shared and implemented.

Skills

Project leadership

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Project

MS Office

Job description

Dewpoint in Lansing, MI seeks a Project Manager to lead full lifecycle initiatives, from initiation to close. You will plan, schedule, monitor, control and deliver projects on time and within budget, guiding cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.

The successful candidate brings 5+ years of PM experience, a strong customer-service orientation, and proven ability to handle complex programs (>$1M) with disciplined project management practices.