Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager
Reports to: Senior Manager Deployment- Telecom
Scope of Work - Main duties, settings, geography, reporting relationships, other relationships:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: project management, initiation, planning, executing, and closing projects, managing teams, procurement activities, managing vendor relations, corporate compliance, ensuring appropriate project accounting for cost recovery, contractor onboarding, budget tracking and adjustments, and support of change management and transition to Operational areas at project implementation to ensure alignment and understanding of responsibilities.
This position reports to the Senior manager of Deployment in OSG Telecommunications.
MAJOR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Initiation, Planning, Executing, and Closing Projects — defining the project WBS, Cost Baseline and OBS structure, initiating the project, building its comprehensive work plan, controlling, and managing to the risks, scope, schedule and budget
- Managing Teams — facilitating commitment and productivity, removing obstacles, and managing teams
- Management of third-party projects including other transmission owners and interconnecting customers
- Accountable and Responsible for:
- Cost /Budgeting and Management
- Communication Management
- Change Management
- Schedule Management
- Construction Management Oversight
- Commissioning Management Oversight
- Risk Management
- Fiduciary responsibilities including the management of budgets, establishing accounting structures, creation of cost collectors (Controlling Orders), budget forecasts, and variance reporting.
- Manages internal and external resources as appropriate.
- Coordinates efforts of cross-functional project teams. Holds regular program/project status meetings.
- Collaborates with various Avangrid business areas (Control, Electric and Gas Operations, IT, Customer Service, etc.)
- Evaluates regulatory filings and respond to interrogatories.
- Maintains compliance requirements (both internal and external).
- Provides expertise and immediacy of decision making, holds project team members accountable for results, coaches and guides team members, resolves disputes and escalates issues when appropriate.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- 10 years or more of experience in Project Management, 3 years in large projects.
- Bachelor’s degree is required. Professional Engineer License.
- Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Professional Project Management (PMP) Certification or equivalent (under AVANGRID approval)
- Experience in Telecommunications projects, or electric and gas construction.
- Proficient in Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI, SharePoint and Teams). Familiarity with other project support tools such as JIRA.
- Experience and understanding of establishing project accounting according to guidelines to ensure cost recovery through accurate reporting.
- Familiarity working with IT and OSG on the development of technical requirements documentation.
Skills/Abilities:
- Project management (individual projects, project management office, linked projects)
- Change Management (people, process, technology) experience
- Interpersonal skills
- Communications/influencing
- Negotiation/dispute resolution
- Analytical capabilities
- Regulatory experience
- Working knowledge of several utility business areas (e.g., Telecommunications within the Utility environment, Electric Operations, Gas Operations, Customer Service, Asset Management & Planning, IT and OSG)
- Coaching and mentoring
- Agility, versatility, and flexibility; productive in a multi-tasking and rapidly changing environment
Mobility Information
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