Associate Enterprise Project Manager

Job Function Summary

Plans, oversees, and implements new initiatives and projects.

Key Job Information

• Intermediate: Requires expanded professional-level knowledge and experience in own area; incumbents continue to acquire higher-level knowledge and skills.
• Expands on high-level knowledge of the company, processes and customers.
• Solves a range of more complex problems.
• Analyzes possible solutions using advanced knowledge and applying protocols.
• Operate independently and receive only a moderate level of guidance and direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Consultation and Planning

  • Responsible for leading minor-sized regulatory dockets.
  • Includes coordination with regulatory and business SME’s in the development of the filing, discovery management, responsive testimonies or comments, settlement planning and OPUC Order implementation.
  • Performs project management activities in support of a major or enterprise-wide project managed by a senior project manager (PM).
  • Consults with operations managers to ensure strategic alignment, cost effectiveness and mitigation of negative operational and/or customer service impacts of business initiatives and projects.
  • Works with project sponsor to develop objectives and scope.
  • Affords assistance in or develops business case/justification.
  • Develops project plan(s) including WBS, schedule and cost baselines, dependencies and project roles and resource requirements.
  • Identifies project risks and mitigation strategies.
  • Partners and strategizes with Supply Chain, Legal, IT and project sponsor on vendor contract negotiations.

• Team Leadership

  • Leads single-project team in completing a project.
  • Provides staff leadership to team members.
  • Facilitates team meetings, cultivates and reinforces group values, norms and behaviors.
  • Provides guidance and motivation to team on performance and productivity issues.
  • Ensures compliance with established project management methodologies and standards.
  • Takes corrective action as needed.
  • Acts as liaison between PM and team(s).
  • Provides guidance in support of or on behalf of PM.
  • Captures and documents action items.
  • Maintains, adjusts and updates project plans as needed.
  • Maintains, monitors and updates the project plan; tracks and updates budget.
  • Alerts PM to significant variances and potential scope increases.
  • Maintains and tracks all project-related action items and issues.

• Stakeholder Engagement

  • Develops communication plans and strategies.
  • Provides timely, accurate communication of project plans and status to stakeholders.
  • Affords assistance in developing communication plans.
  • Prepares program/project stakeholder communications such as progress reports, proposals and presentations.

• Process Improvement

  • Leads and/or facilitates business process improvement (BPI) activities.
  • Affords assistance to managers and subject matter experts to identify, understand and improve or revise processes, practices and policies.
  • Affords assistance to managers in establishing process controls in order to measure baseline and post-improvement performance to monitor success of improvement initiatives.
  • Contributes to BPI and benchmarking activities by surveying and analyzing best practices, diagramming and capturing process flows, performing gap analyses and identifying improvement opportunities.
  • Researches and documents user requirements for business systems.
  • Facilitates BPI sessions on behalf of senior PMs as requested.

• Project Reporting and Documentation

  • Ensures all project documents are catalogued and archived in a secure and efficient manner.
  • Documents and files all “lessons learned” along with all project artifacts.
  • Prepares program/project level communications such as progress reports, proposals and presentations.
  • Establishes and maintains repository for project documents.
  • Ensures all project documents are catalogued and archived in a secure and efficient manner.
  • Filings all “lessons learned” along with project artifacts.

• Internal Collaboration

  • Pairs with PMs to improve overall organizational competencies in project management.
  • Collaborates with PM peer group to continually improve.

Education/Experience/Certifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, communications, psychology or computer science or other related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically, two or more years in project management or related field.
• (e.g., scheduling, project coordination, business analyst)
• PMP certification preferred.

Physical and Cognitive Demands

• Cognitive Level Intermediate: Consistent use of relevant principles to solve practical problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks.
• Ability to follow accuracy standards.
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks.
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress.
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change.
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback.
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement.
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks.
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization.
• Demonstrates sound memory.
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks.

Schedule/Attendance

• Ability to work long hours.
• Ability to work a variable schedule.
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather.
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance.
• Ability to work on-call schedule.

Physical Capabilities

• Requires a valid driver’s license.
• Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory frequently (at least once a week or more)
• Overnight inside/outside the service territory occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
• Lifting/pushing/pulling: Up to 10 lb
• Carrying (check appropriate weight): Up to 10 lb

Environment

• Office environment
• Plant environment
• Field environment

Total Compensation

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.