About the job Senior Project Manager
Summary
Work Hours: Flexible, roughly 8a-5p. This position have the opportunity for an extension or FTE conversion.
Cloud implementation and Maximo exp will be given preference.
Required Skills
Is utilities experience required? (Y/N) Y
Top 3 Must-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):
1. IT project management basics (scope, schedule, budget planning and tracking)
2. Excellent communication skills
3. Experience with large scale technology implementations, ideally with a utility.
Top 3 Nice-To-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills)
1.Organizational change management experience
2. Maximo Implementation
3.Utility Work & Asset management practices experience
Roles & Responsibilities
Team and Work Environment
Can you give a high-level overview of your team size, roles, its initiatives/deliverables, and any tool/technologies specific to your team/department/project they will be supporting: Enterprise Work & Asset management IT Team. Looking for a project manager to lead our Maximo Application Suite upgrade project.
What would a day in the life of this role look like?: Completing project planning, documentation, coordinating resources and partnering with vendors.
What interaction level with this role have the team members and hiring manager? High interaction with manager, key team members and vendors.
What would you say is the top priority for the worker over the first few weeks/months?: Complete packaging of documentation for kick off of system integrator RFP.
What do you foresee being the biggest challenge in this role? Large scale, wide audience of impacted stakeholders. So staying on top of the implementation and the broad communication needs.
Minimum Qualifications
Job Description:
Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices
Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
Leads functional teams or projects
Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines)
Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project
Ensures that realistic project plans are created and maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use (Agile, waterfall, etc.)
Ensures quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure
Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets and are signed off
Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
Advises on the available standards, procedures, methods, tools and techniques
Evaluates project and/or program performance and recommends changes where necessary
Contributes to reviews and audits of project and program management to ensure conformance to standards
Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
Manages financial planning and budgeting. Develops financial plans and forecasts. Monitors and manages IT expenditure, ensuring that all IT financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances. Analyzes actual expenditure, explains variances and advises on options in use of available budget.
Analyzes business processes; identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility and recommends new approaches, typically seeking to exploit technology components
Evaluates the financial, cultural, technological, organizational and environmental factors which must be addressed in the change program
Establishes client requirements for the implementation of significant changes in organizational mission, business functions and process, organizational roles and responsibilities and scope or nature of service delivery
Ensures that program/project leads and/or service owners adhere to the agreed project management approach and timetable and that they provide the appropriate information to agreed targets of timelines and accuracy. Produces reports as appropriate for project governance, including making recommendations for changes to the project
Defines solution development projects which support the organization's objectives and plans.
Ensures that senior management is both aware of and able to provide the required resources. Facilitates availability and optimum utilization of resources.
Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects, ensuring that projects are carried out in accordance with agreed standards, methods and procedures (including secure software development).