Overview
Hybrid
$50 - $60
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
Project Manager
Job Details
The Project Manager will oversee the planning, execution, and completion of IT lab-based projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements and adherence to client's 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. This Project Manager must have experience over large IT projects. Strong leadership, time management, and communication skills are essential to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects and coordinate cross-functional teams.
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.
Comfortable executing task oriented work and following direction from supervisors to meet team and organizational needs.
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.
PMP or CSM - or working towards it.
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
A deep understanding of cyber and grid systems is not required, though familiarity is a plus.
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