Project Manager

About the role

Help establish and clarify internal roles and responsibilities, work with other teams on governance activities, track approximately 15 approved NGIA pilots, gather status updates from SMEs, identify risks and roadblocks, maintain progress reporting, and support annual regulatory update reports.

Support development of the next NGIA plan, evaluate future pilots, and perform lifecycle greenhouse gas calculations using the GREET model, including building GREET pathways for different project types.

Typical office work including maintaining spreadsheets that track pilot progress, meeting with SMEs, monitoring pilot status and obstacles, coordinating efforts across teams, serving as a liaison among stakeholders, supporting reporting efforts, joining calls with potential pilot developers, analyzing projects, building carbon intensity scores, and assisting with clean fuel strategy activities.

Help build a new and growing decarbonization business area, influence NGIA planning efforts, and support innovative greenhouse gas reduction initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Establish and clarify internal roles and responsibilities
• Work with other teams on governance activities
• Track approximately 15 approved NGIA pilots
• Gather status updates from SMEs
• Identify risks and roadblocks
• Maintain progress reporting
• Support annual regulatory update reports
• Support development of the next NGIA plan
• Evaluate future pilots
• Perform lifecycle greenhouse gas calculations using the GREET model
• Build GREET pathways for different project types
• Maintain spreadsheets tracking pilot progress
• Meet with SMEs and monitor pilot status and obstacles
• Coordinate efforts across teams
• Serve as a liaison among stakeholders
• Support reporting efforts
• Join calls with potential pilot developers
• Analyze projects and build carbon intensity scores
• Assist with clean fuel strategy activities
• Help build a new and growing decarbonization business area
• Influence NGIA planning efforts
• Support innovative greenhouse gas reduction initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience performing greenhouse gas calculations
• Experience with the GREET model and lifecycle carbon intensity calculations
• Greenhouse gas emission reduction calculation experience
• Project management experience
• Experience working cross-functionally and coordinating projects across teams
• Approximately 5-10 years of relevant experience
• A project manager-level candidate

Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally
• Collaboration
• Coordination
• Project tracking
• Stakeholder management
• Organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications related to greenhouse gas accounting, GREET, or greenhouse gas emission reduction calculations
• Experience in carbon offsets and additional greenhouse gas emission reduction programs and calculations
• Prior work at CenterPoint Energy

Schedule

Standard office hours, approximately 8:00 AM-5:00 PM.

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full-time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.
• Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full-time employment with Synectics.
• Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full-time employment with Synectics.
• 401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first of the month following at least 1 calendar year after employment begins.