Senior Project Manager (PM3) - Local to MI

Startekk Inc; Dimondale (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

StarTekk Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager (PM3) to support the Michigan PMO and Treasury on a high-priority, multi-year IT project.

The role requires building schedules, budgets, and governance while coordinating across agencies, vendors, and technical teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT project management experience.
• 7+ years delivering projects on time and within budget.
• 5+ years using Clarity for project portfolio management.
• 5+ years of MS Project experience.
• 5+ years of stakeholder and system owner management across departments.
• 5+ years of multi-vendor government projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, resource plans, and documentation using Clarity.
• Monitor and control scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, and risks.
• Prepare and present project status reports to executives and stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder communications and coordinate with technical and business teams.
• Develop and maintain PMM deliverables including charters, schedules, budgets, and risk logs.
• Coordinate interfaces and communications across multiple agencies.
• Ensure compliance with SUITE PMM and SEM methodologies.
• Manage change requests, risks, and issues.
• Review vendor contracts and monitor vendor deliverables.
• Facilitate collaboration between business, technical teams, vendors and leadership.
• Oversee technical teams for system architecture and SaaS integrations.

Skills

IT project management

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

PM tools (Clarity)

MS Project

SaaS integrations

Team leadership

Tools

Clarity

MS Project

Job description

Senior Project Manager (PM3) - Local to MI

• Contract

StarTekk’s adoption of Digital Transformation is to accelerate organizational growth, increase efficiencies and help Star Workforce achieve focused business goals. The Employee will help our organization to identify and bridge the gap that exists in the business by analyzing the data, scale and support digital transformation initiatives.

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

• 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