Tech Tammina
Location: Jackson,MI, USA
Date: 2025-01-01T06:59:18Z
Job Description:
Role: GIS Project Manager III Rate: Market Work Location: Jackson, MI - Duration: Long termSkills and Experience: - Project Performance Messaging and Communications: Ability to appropriately communicate, negotiate, and influence internally, externally, and up and down through the organization.
- Critical Thinking: Decision-making, strategic thinking, trade-off analysis, engineering/technical acumen, and business acumen.
- Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of tactical and strategic problems.
- Oversight of weekly stand-ups and status report outs.
- Ensure metrics are measuring progress correctly and data is meaningful to business partners.
- Monitor and report project performance against the project plan and take corrective action when required.
- Lead regular project reviews with project sponsors and executive stakeholders.
- Content support provided by solution system integrators and organizational change management teams.
- Communicate with executive management and their expanded staffs related to IT projects, operations, performance, and value delivery.
- Capability for leadership engagement and escalation when required.
- Oversight of OCM communications.
Budget Management: - Develop and maintain project cost estimates, budgets, and financial forecasts.
- Accountable for performance against financial parameters while monitoring and reporting on budgetary aspects of the project.
- Develop cost mitigation strategies to work through constraints as they arise.
- Provide Regulatory Rate Case Support, as needed.
Risk and Issues Management: - Manage program risks, issues, and change control processes, escalating as required.
- Ensure risks and issues are documented and tracked within the project.
- Devise effective mitigation and escalation strategies with the project teams to address risks.
Qualifications: - 10+ years of experience working in an enterprise-size IT environment and delivering complex, integrated business/IT solutions.
- Successful delivery of multiple diverse and complex enterprise-size projects ($10M - $30M), including scope, schedule, budgets, quality, inter-dependencies, and business value throughout the project lifecycle.
- Energy, Utility experience preferred.
- Execution Management & planning and delivery of multi-phased complex programs (GIS, Spatial Solutions, and Smart Grid experience preferred - design, development, and testing).
- SAP Project experience required.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully influence and negotiate to ensure positive outcomes in the delivery of services, including the ability to communicate effectively to both internally and externally facing organizations.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing cross-business units and cross-functional programs' interdependencies and deliverables.
- Experience leading multi-vendor programs with vendor management responsibilities.
- Experience with RFP processes and negotiating contracts.
- Project management experience with emphasis on critical paths and dependencies within the workstreams.
- Strong ability to produce results by motivating team members, overcoming obstacles, and executing sound judgment to meet deadlines.
- Proven experience developing baseline and maintaining project plans, including financial forecasts and performing against financial targets.
- Ability to drive detailed operational issues, collaborate with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experienced in working effectively in a diverse business environment with excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- Strong problem-solving ability and elevated level of dedication.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.
- Ability to see the big picture and provide succinct status updates and overall program summaries at regular intervals.
- Adaptability to changing work environments with tight deadlines.
- Ability to work and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with employees at all levels of the organization and from other organizations.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated leadership ability as evidenced by prior success in leading teams or projects.
- Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize business demands for the team and set clear team goals, objectives, and strategies.
- Requires basic skill and knowledge of general accounting principles and demonstrated ability to successfully manage budgets.
- Experience implementing GIS Solutions, familiarity with process integration of GIS (ArcFM, ESRI Utility Network, ESRI Applications/Schneider) with other Industry enterprises.
- Solid experience with operational systems, including EMS, DMS, OMS, ADMS, or Gas SCADA.
- Experience working on Spatial data governance & GIS data synchronization.
- Master's or other advanced degree, ideally in an IT or Business area.
- Experience presenting in front of executive leadership.
- Sales and marketing experience.
- Proven experience running high-profile projects under tight deadlines and budgets.
- Energy industry background that includes a working knowledge of effectively mapping technology to business challenges.
- Agile methodology experience.
- Knowledge of lean concepts and the quality system framework.
Required Skills: - Change management
- Forecasts
- Quality system
- GIS
- Project lifecycle
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