Requisition ID: 20626
SummaryA Program Office professional with experience in assessing, building, and optimizing project portfolios across departments. This role requires a strategic thinker with a comprehensive understanding of project management principles and methodologies. This position offers an opportunity to drive value-based changes to SRPs workload management, specifically managing the Grid Project Portfolio across Operational Technology Services (OTS). Additionally, it includes non-OTS-driven capital projects that require support from OTS, which constitute the largest portion of work.
The position does not have direct reports but will provide guidance and structure to project execution and is responsible for defining and upholding standards for project management within the organization.
What You'll Do- Ensure portfolio goals, deliverables, and milestones are clearly defined, communicated, and tracked throughout the project lifecycle.
- Work within a cross-functional environment to manage unplanned work and change orders for existing projects.
- Assist the business in the preparation of new project requests, helping to convey the needs in a language most understandable to all stakeholders.
- Assist the project team in managing constraints of schedule, budgets and assigned resources to deliver defined scope.
- Once established, serve as a central administrator for Operational Technology's Grid Work project portfolio management process.
- Maintains status between OTS-driven substation and distribution projects within our Generation, Transmission, and Distribution facilities, spanning transmission and distribution voltages from 500kV to 12.47kV.
- Proactively anticipate threats to achieving project tasks and adjust project schedule, resources and budget using project change control procedures.
- Appropriately escalate project issues and roadblocks to Management Conduct ad-hoc analyses with internal and external data to support strategic decisions.
- Maintain relevant databases and related records.
- Adhere to company's safety programs, trainings, and policies, as well as promote and manage the Safety & Health performance of project team members and subcontractors.
- Responsible for the central oversight of day-to-day construction activities.
- Review, approve, and communicate internal and external project status reports.
- Present reports to internal and external executive management as required.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to understand and plan around the development and distribution of engineering deliverables per project schedule and requirements.
- Coordinate and facilitate grid work commissioning teams as needed.
- Responsible for field progress-tracking specific to construction related activities as required.
- Drive effective staffing with the supervisory team to optimize project schedule and resource coverage.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EducationA bachelor's degree relevant to the assignment from an accredited institution is preferred.
ExperienceMinimum 7 years of relevant experience required. In lieu of a degree, 11 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience totaling 11 years may be considered.
Additional Requirements and Qualifications- Degree in construction, construction management or engineering preferred.
- Experience establishing and maintaining project governance and escalation processes
- Proven record of working collaboratively and building strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Experience in resource management, budget management, and performance monitoring
- Ability to constantly adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Operations fluency and experience in prior programs executed from charter to project close.
- Bias for action and the ability to meet deadlines and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Teams, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access).
- Advanced experience with Exceland SQL a plus.
- Experience with document control, scheduling, asset and project management software is preferred.
- General understanding of financial modeling, process mapping, change management, schedule creation, and reporting progress.
- Participate in the design and establishment of a Centralized Project Office, aligning project management practices with organizational objectives and timelines.
- Exhibits strong communication skills, facilitating open dialogue and welcoming diverse viewpoints.
- Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of project management methodologies, templates, and tools to ensure consistency and efficiency across SRPs projects.
- Improve interdepartmental coordination and communication, leading to effective project completion.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, business leaders, and project offices to understand high-level scopes, resolve issues, and ensure project alignment with strategic goals.
- Working directly with the supervisor teams on resource allocation, forecasting demand, and ensuring the optimal utilization of human and technical resources across projects.
- Collaborates on cross-functional projects to tackle complex scheduling challenges. Identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks, while negotiating contingency plans to minimize their impact on project delivery.
- Tracking project performance against established metrics, generating regular reports, and providing insights to stakeholders to inform decision-making.
- Apply principles of successful negotiation in collaboration with stakeholders to support project delivery.
- Adapt communications and approaches to successfully negotiate consensus across workplans.
- Exhibits autonomy in leading initiatives beyond the department, influencing project outcomes.
- Take the initiative to make informed decisions regarding project direction, resource allocation, and timelines.
Hybrid WorkplaceSRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona.
