Senior IT Project Manager, HRIS

Orion Groups is a professional services firm based in McKinney, Texas that provides experienced consultants to key organizations across the United States. They are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead a short-term project supporting access changes associated with retiring functionality within internal applications and implementing new access workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the day‑to‑day Project Manager for the access‑retirement effort
• Apply structure, organization, and planning to a project currently being supported by senior leaders with limited bandwidth
• Manage timelines, deliverables, risks, and issues; escalate as needed
• Coordinate closely with HR, Security, and technical teams to track progress and ensure alignment
• Lead Organizational Readiness activities, including stakeholder communications, change management tasks, and identifying training needs
• Support development and organization of training sessions for impacted users
• Facilitate cross‑functional meetings with business stakeholders and program directors
• Partner with technical SMEs for system impacts; no custom application knowledge required
• Prepare and maintain project documentation, Smartsheet trackers, slides, and status reports
• Drive execution to meet the March/April transition timeline

Requirements:

• Prior experience as an IT or business project manager in agile environments
• Proven ability to organize complex workstreams and drive execution independently
• Experience with stakeholder and vendor management
• Experience with Smartsheets
• Experience with Google Sheets & Google Slides including Google Suite collaboration tools
• Experience with ServiceNow PPM
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience considered