Senior GIS Project Manager

TRC, Member of WSP, is a global consulting environmental and engineering firm and one of the top design firms in the energy sector. Together, TRC and WSP’s 83,000 experts create positive, long-lasting impacts for communities and clients in the power and energy, transportation and infrastructure, environmental, and property and buildings sectors. As part of the team, you’ll discover opportunities to connect with innovative thinkers, forge your path, and tackle challenging projects. TRC combines science with the latest technology to devise innovative solutions, from pipelines to power plants, roadways to reservoirs, and security solutions.

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Project Manager (PM) with experience in electric utility operations implementing and integrating COTS solutions such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), SCADA, Distribution Management Systems (DMS), and Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI). The Intelligent Grid Solutions Team helps clients deploy GIS, operational technologies (OT), and information technologies (IT), assess and integrate emerging digital technologies, leverage information assets, uncover insights, improve processes, enable situational awareness, maximize technology investments, and prioritize security and data protection risks.

Working closely with the end customer, vendors, and project personnel, the Senior Project Manager will ensure the proper implementation and delivery of a new GIS system across the client’s territory. This role owns the scope and is responsible for the leadership, management, and overall success of the GIS Implementation Program. Strong team leadership and executive communication skills are vital for delivering a complex utility GIS upgrade project.

Responsibilities

• Act as a champion to foster a positive project work environment and lead the team to accomplish all project objectives on time and on budget.
• Manage executive-level communications with the System Integrator and Client.
• Oversee a team of offshore and onshore technical project resources.
• Control project schedule, resourcing, and financial reporting.
• Execute change management processes in line with the delivery contract and communication plan.
• Utilize project management methodologies such as task and quality management, project estimation, manpower and budget planning, modeling techniques, and tools.
• Maintain project plans, documents, and timelines.
• Govern the Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Decisions (RAID) log.
• Develop and report project status and analyze progress relative to milestones.
• Develop workflow plans to manage the project from request through systems analysis, technical design, implementation, procurement, testing, turnover to production, and client migration.
• Plan, prepare, and track project schedules and budgets to ensure controlled completion of each project step.
• Gather and analyze status for project deliverables.
• Develop and maintain project status reporting.
• Lead project meetings and workshops.
• Create presentations for all levels of organizations.
• Lead the project close-out process.
• Maintain forecasts to ensure schedule compliance and desired results.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of Project Management experience in the utility domain.
• Previous experience leading and managing large-scale, multifaceted enterprise-wide Operational Technologies projects in an electric utility environment.
• Fully knowledgeable and proficient in all aspects of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Excellent organizational, decision-making, and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills, ranging from addressing C-Level executives to multiple technical teams.
• Ability to self-direct and work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Excellent team-building and motivational skills.
• Strong budgeting and financial skills.
• Proficiency with MS-Project and MS Office Suite: Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Ability to travel to client location(s) up to 50%.

Skills

• Project plan development – waterfall, agile, or hybrid.
• Project scope of work (SOW) creation and negotiation.
• Project communication and stakeholder management.
• Project financial and schedule tracking and management.
• Executive sponsorship engagement and presentation.
• Effective client-side and TRC internal reporting.
• Business development initiation and support.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Previous experience implementing large GIS programs (ESRI, Smallworld, Hexagon).
• PMP Certification.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Pay

Salary Range: USD $158,017.60 - USD $178,942.00 per year.