Overview
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The Project Manager will oversee the planning, execution, and completion of IT lab-based projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements and adherence to Southern California Edison (SCE) IT and Grid Resilience PMO standards. This role involves managing a portfolio of lab demonstration projects, ensuring they meet milestones and budgetary constraints while efficiently handling scope changes. The PM will focus on pre-deployment testing and proof-of-concept (POC) development in a lab environment. Strong leadership, time management, and communication skills are essential to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects and coordinate cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities Project Planning and Execution
- Direct planning, scope definition, scheduling, and budgeting for IT lab environment projects.
- Oversee a portfolio of lab demonstration projects, ensuring timely milestone completion and adherence to budgets.
- Manage scope changes while ensuring project goals are achieved.
- Perform analysis, estimation, design, evaluation, and implementation of medium- to high-complexity projects.
- Build and oversee proof-of-concept (POC) testing in the lab to validate project feasibility.
Risk and Issue Management
- Proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Implement RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) processes per Grid Resilience PMO guidelines.
- Monitor and address scope changes, ensuring they are effectively communicated and resolved.
Team Leadership and Stakeholder Communication
- Build and lead cross-functional teams, including IT Leads for Cyber, Grid, and Enterprise Architecture.
- Establish clear and effective communication channels with stakeholders, vendors, and project teams.
- Facilitate team and stakeholder meetings, providing regular updates on deliverables, milestones, and risks.
Process and Standards Adherence
- Ensure compliance with SCE standards for Release Management, Change Management, Root Cause Analysis, and Financial Reporting.
- Support lab-specific requirements such as testing readiness, security assessments, and environment setup.
Vendor and Contract Management
- Coordinate with vendors to ensure delivery of quality goods and services.
- Manage contracts, project metrics, and supplier performance to meet project objectives.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities for process enhancements and recommend strategies for improvement.
- Maintain and share IT plans for potential new projects and emerging needs.
Qualifications: Essential Requirements
- 7+ years of project management experience leading IT projects with multi-functional teams (8-12 members).
- 3+ years managing large, complex projects involving software or cloud deployment using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- 3+ years of experience leading project quality initiatives, including metrics and quality assurance.
- 2+ years managing vendor contracts, project metrics, and supplier performance.
Preferred Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Computing Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of IT experience in the electric utility industry.
- 2+ years of experience in IT portfolio management or customer relationship management.
- Proficiency in Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Octane, GitHub) and Microsoft Office tools (e.g., MS Project, Visio).
- Familiarity with Product Line and Value Streams methodologies.
- Prior experience in IT lab environments preferred but not mandatory.
Key Deliverables and Milestones
- Ensure timely completion of IT lab-based project milestones, including:
- IT requirements definition and Solution Design Council (SDC) approval.
- Vendor risk assessments, security design assessments, and testing readiness.
- Cyber testing, final risk management reports, and decommissioning activities.
Additional Notes
- Role focuses on managing IT lab environments; candidates with prior lab PM experience are strongly preferred.
- Potential travel to Westminster and Pomona lab sites. Remote work is acceptable but must operate in PST hours.
- California-based candidates are highly preferred.
- A deep understanding of cyber and grid systems is not required, though familiarity is a plus.