Requisition: 84444
PSEG Company: PSEG Services Corp
Salary Range: $ 137,000 - $ 224,400
Work Location Category: Hybrid
Job Summary At this time, only current PSEG employees are being considered. The Program Manager is responsible for the management of multiple inter-dependent projects. Oversees all aspects of assigned programs throughout project lifecycles to ensure completion within the defined scope, quality, and time and cost constraints. Supervises individual project managers. Ensures accurate allocations of resources throughout the program. Leads multi- disciplinary teams, composed of various levels of personnel, vendors, and clients to create and deploy successful programs. Programs at PSEG are a group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Programs may contain elements of work outside of the scope of the discrete projects in the program.
The main purpose of the role is to deliver strategic value of a business-aligned IT technology programs through effective team and initiative management. The Sr. IT Program Manager works with peers to shape portfolio needs and create estimates on portfolio budget and schedule. The resource will use their proven experience managing complex programs to improve business experience, minimize technical debt, and ensure successful delivery of projects. Role will support business and IT leaders to plan, scope, and develop programs and projects to implement business-aligned IT strategies. Develops and manages internal resources to continuously deliver technology and process value within an IT Tower or product aligned portfolio.
The position requires project management expertise, knowledge across infrastructure, application and Operational Technology (OT) domains, strong organizational leadership, strong financial acumen, understanding of corrective action program, and the ability to drive modernization within a highly regulated nuclear environment. By building stakeholder relationships, ensuring reliable project delivery, and leading non-project business initiatives, this role directly supports nuclear safety, security, and long-term fleet reliability.
Job Responsibilities- Budget - Manage program budget and expenditures for authorized amount within PSEG stage gate tolerances.
- Program Execution - Lead and manage programs by coordinating activities and delivery across multiple, related projects or work streams that span technology and areas. Ensures program meets schedule and scope targets.
- Risk Management - (RAID Management) - Identify, develop mitigation plans, and monitor to drive timely and effective escalation and risk/issue resolution. Manage and/or escalate issues and/or complications, and respond well to time pressures. Track dependencies and risks, and assessing change impact across interdependent work streams and projects. Capture all pertinent actions and decisions.
- Leadership and Oversight - Provide oversight and guidance to those managing smaller projects within specific business unit domain.
- Resource Management - Oversees project resources to deliver required project artifacts/goals.
- Stakeholder Engagement - Use effective people engagement skills to drive contact with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle to manage expectations, establish timelines, and grow relationships. Ensure alignment on scope, value proposition and overall project goals. Work with functional departments to coordinate systems testing, deployment, training, and support.
- Communication - Track and communicate progress; Provide project status report updates to project stakeholders through project level and executive steering committees, maintaining an effective communication cadence. Ensure proper communication and change management processes are adopted for all major change initiatives.
- Staff Oversight and Development - Manage team and work to build core competencies within the area with a focus on operational excellence.
- Vendor Management - Oversees vendor deliverables, ensures vendor adherence to contract terms, works with leadership on verndor performance and SLA compliance.
Project Artifact Management - Facilitate project tailoring and artifact development to align with project management processes in accordance with project sizing.
Job Specific Qualifications- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience in leading large projects. In lieu of a degree, 10 years of experience in leading large projects.
- Experience with IT project management methodologies, requirements management, quality assurance and IT processes from project inception to successful implementation.
- Understanding of financial principles including experience with project financial budgeting and planning.
- Strong communication, organization, and facilitation skills. Effective presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences.
- Experience managing outsourced vendors (on and off shore).
- Strong judgment and analytical ability.
- Leadership, teamwork and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to foster working relationships with the team, IT Management and functional departments.
- Experience in supervising/managing program team members or direct reports as part of program execution.
- Must be 10 CFR 810 compliant.
- Must meet and maintain nuclear requirements for Unescorted Site Access.
Desired
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Experience in regulated industries (nuclear, utilities, defense, energy). Certifications such as ITIL, PMP, Agile, CISSP, CISM. Master's Degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering or related field.
