Program Manager

About the role

Location: Charlotte, NC 28202 (Hybrid). Duration: 36 Months. The PGO (Power Grid Operations) Training and Workforce Program Manager establishes the strategic direction for the Lighting initiative for PGO. The Program Manager defines the training for the Lighting programs to achieve PGO’s workforce strategies and operational objectives. The Program Manager supports multiple customer groups within PGO and may engage with all levels of leaders within the PGO organization. This position is the project manager for various lighting initiatives, provides strategic input for current and future lighting program development, effectively plans, schedules, coordinates, and monitors the activities of lighting programs and negotiates resources as needed, ensures that lighting programs are completed on time, within budget and in accordance with business needs and objectives, monitors status and progress of lighting projects and makes necessary adjustments to plans and schedules, makes recommendations and presentations to management and supports the communication and implementation of project deliverables. The successful candidate will possess total ownership of outcomes, assertiveness and independent decision‑making ability, and the ability to compare alternative courses of action and select the best solution. This role plays a critical part in the development and sustainment of leader training programs