Engineering Project Manager 3

About the role

This Engineering Project Manager 3 will lead complex, multi-year transmission and infrastructure projects from planning through closeout, managing scope, budget, schedule, resources, risk, and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, and facilitate Transmission projects from inception to conclusion and in accordance with company and industry project management principles and standards.
• Facilitate complex large-sized, multi-year projects.
• Many of these projects are high visibility projects to Senior Management, requiring monthly project status updates.
• Responsible for coordination from the Scoping Phase of the project through documented Close Out procedures.
• Aid management with implementing project tasks on a daily basis (may include multiple projects) with regards to time, budget, schedule and quality.
• Provide updates and findings to manager.
• Issue project status reports on a regular or as requested basis.
• Collaborate with the manager (or assigned designee) to define the frequency and content of status reports from the project team; review and analyze results, troubleshooting concerns or problem areas and provide mitigation options and weighted recommendations.
• Draft monthly executive summary report.
• Interact and collaborate with external stakeholders, often navigating complex business relationships.
• Maintain consistent communication with project sponsors, performance managers, and stakeholders on the progress of the project compared to the work plan.
• Coordinate activities for manager-assigned projects that enable goals or objectives to be accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters, escalating concerns to appropriate manager / personnel.
• Facilitate the implementation of the project on a daily basis (may include multiple projects) with regard to scope, budget, schedule and quality. Provide updates and findings to manager.
• Prepare and monitor the budget for the project (monitors project funding and overall budget).
• Facilitate and monitor/track project budgets (project funding and overall budget).
• Facilitate project requirements, milestones, and project expectations and monitor the project schedule.
• Allocate time in the project plan for the project team to attend all recommended training.
• Alert the Manager of any budget concerns.
• Obtain authorization for changes to the project scope, cost, schedule, or performance.
• Issue regular status reports, issue final reports or deliverables and generate and act on lessons learned.
• Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Organize site visits with the project team members, as necessary for the project.
• Support and facilitate the following functions:
• Written and verbal sponsor communication.
• Project team communications and coordination.
• Inter-project team communications and coordination.
• Team meeting and sponsor meeting management.
• Facilitate the successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager including any training, documentation, or meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed on all critical aspects of the work and introduce them to executive sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Provide background information, technical input, options and recommendations that facilitate project decision-making. This may include, at management request, arranging, attending and facilitating decision-making sessions/meetings with management, executives and key stakeholders, including drafting agendas, answering technical questions, and presenting information, options and recommendations for decision-maker consideration.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or Management, Organization Development, Computer Science or other closely-related technical field is preferred.
• With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 10 years of experience is required.
• With a Bachelor’s degree not in applicable fields, 12 years of experience is required.
• Without a Bachelor’s degree, 14 years of experience is required.
• Experience should include project management experience on projects relating to some or all the following: (Utility Physical Security and Compliance; High Voltage Substation; Telecommunication Systems).
• 5+ years of demonstrated project management experience on projects using industry standard methods and tools for managing schedules, dependencies, resources, funding and developing technical specifications and project plans.
• Experience accurately assessing and estimating project costs.
• Experience writing and understanding functional and technical specifications.
• Experience with developing project schedule timelines to reflect major tasks (planning, design, procurement, construction, testing).
• Experience with SharePoint or similar program.
• Experience with Visio or similar program.
• Experience with MS Project.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Valid U.S. Driver’s License is required.