Associate Enterprise Project Manager

Portland General Electric • Portland, OR

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About The Position

Portland General Electric is seeking an Associate Enterprise Project Manager to lead and coordinate regulatory proceedings and support major or enterprise-wide projects. The role focuses on proceedings before the Oregon Public Utility Commission, helping ensure high-quality work products and strong relationships with the Commission and stakeholders. Utility-industry and regulatory-process knowledge is a plus, while strong project-management experience and the ability to learn the business and regulatory environment are emphasized.

The position plans, oversees, and implements initiatives and projects. It leads minor-sized regulatory dockets and performs project-management activities in support of larger projects led by senior project managers. The role also leads a single-project team, manages project controls and stakeholder communications, facilitates process improvement, and maintains project documentation. This intermediate-level position requires professional knowledge and experience, independent work with moderate guidance, and solving complex problems using established protocols.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, communications, psychology, computer science, or another related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically two or more years of experience in project management or a related field, such as scheduling, project coordination, or business analysis.
• Valid driver’s license and a history of safe driving practices.
• Working knowledge of project-management methodologies and standards, and the ability to integrate project scope, quality, time, cost, communication, procurement, human resources, and risk management.
• Working knowledge of the listed software and systems: MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Maximo, Power Plant, Project Profile, and the PGE email system.
• Working knowledge of business process reengineering, continuous improvement, systems thinking, group problem-solving, and Six Sigma or similar methods.
• Listening skills; technical and business requirements writing skills; advanced written and oral communication, negotiation, persuasion, and presentation skills; and basic consulting skills.
• Analytical thinking, stakeholder management, business acumen, change leadership, conflict management, decision-making, enterprise awareness, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and risk-management skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and time-sensitive tasks, follow accuracy standards, collaborate effectively, communicate and solve problems under stress, adapt to frequent change, and apply feedback and learning to work.
• Ability to work long hours, a variable schedule, and an on-call schedule; report to work during severe inclement weather; and consistently meet regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance standards.
• Ability to travel or commute daily within the service territory and occasionally overnight inside or outside the service territory.
• Ability to regularly use a computer throughout the work shift and lift, push, pull, or carry up to 10 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification.
• Knowledge of the utility industry and regulatory processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead minor-sized regulatory dockets, coordinating with regulatory and business subject-matter experts on filings, discovery, responsive testimony or comments, settlement planning, and implementation of Oregon Public Utility Commission orders.
• Perform project-management activities in support of major or enterprise-wide projects managed by a senior project manager.
• Consult with operations managers on strategic alignment, cost effectiveness, and mitigation of operational or customer-service impacts; work with project sponsors to develop objectives, scope, and business cases or justifications.
• Develop project plans, including work breakdown structures, schedules, cost baselines, dependencies, roles, resource requirements, risks, and mitigation strategies; partner with Supply Chain, Legal, IT, and sponsors on vendor contract negotiations.
• Participate in developing project charters, business cases, budgets, schedules, cost baselines, and other planning documents.
• Lead a single-project team, facilitate meetings, support team performance and productivity, ensure adherence to project-management standards, and take corrective action as needed.
• Act as liaison between project managers and teams; coordinate meetings, document action items, and support teams in using collaboration tools and following project-management methods.
• Establish and maintain controls for project budget, scope, quality, schedule, and risk; negotiate project changes with sponsors and update plans as needed.
• Monitor project plans and budgets, track action items and issues, and alert project managers to significant variances or potential scope increases.
• Develop project communication plans and provide timely, accurate status communications to stakeholders; prepare progress reports, proposals, and presentations.
• Lead or facilitate business process improvement activities, identify process improvements and controls, and contribute to benchmarking, process mapping, gap analyses, and requirements documentation.
• Catalog and securely archive project documents, maintain document repositories, and record lessons learned and project artifacts.
• Partner with project managers and peers to improve organizational project-management competencies.
• Assist with storms or other company emergencies as part of the position.

Benefits

• Total rewards package intended to reward contributions and support well-being and professional development.
• Performance-based incentive bonus, with total compensation commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level