IT Project Manager or Enterprise Program and Project Consultant - Oahu

Hawaiian Electric•Kailua, HI

21d•$99,000 - $142,600

About The Position

Hawaiian Electric Company is hiring one professional in its Enterprise Execution Department, with placement as either an IT Project Manager or an Enterprise Program and Project Consultant based on the candidate’s skills and qualifications. The position is located in Honolulu, Oahu. The IT Project Manager manages multiple moderately to highly complex IT projects, leading cross-functional teams to deliver the expected product, quality, schedule, and cost. The role oversees project development, planning, execution, timing, functionality, controls, quality, and cost, while ensuring applicable legal, audit, financial, regulatory, safety, and other requirements are met. The work includes IT, e-business, telecommunications, and business development projects. The Enterprise Program and Project Consultant plans, directs, manages, and controls divisional activities to provide expert program and project execution, consulting, and mentoring across the enterprise. The consultant supports program and project leaders, helps strengthen delivery practices and standards, monitors projects not directly managed by the Enterprise Project Management Office, and partners with executives and managers across Hawaiian Electric Companies. The consultant also participates in strategic planning and organizational change management initiatives. Both roles may participate in company emergency response activities as assigned. The posting states that work may occasionally be required outside normal business hours and on weekends for the IT Project Manager role. The hiring ranges are $99,000–$127,500 for IT Project Manager and $109,000–$142,600 for Enterprise Program and Project Consultant.

Requirements

IT Project Manager: Thorough knowledge of information technology principles and theories, including e-business and telecommunications, typically gained through college-level courses or equivalent experience.
IT Project Manager: Thorough knowledge of information systems, e-business, and telecommunications development, with electric utility IT context, typically gained through at least five years of relevant systems development experience.
IT Project Manager: Thorough knowledge of project management standards and methodologies, including project initiation and closure, work breakdown structures, progress tracking, scope management, and risk mitigation, and experience using project management software tools.
IT Project Manager: Thorough knowledge of personal computers and/or Unix systems and related applications such as spreadsheets, word processing, and project management software.
IT Project Manager: Working knowledge of company policies and procedures relevant to projects and assignments.
IT Project Manager: Demonstrated leadership, written and oral communication, listening, and interpersonal skills for working with all organizational levels and external contractors or consultants.
IT Project Manager: Ability to develop ideas quickly, adapt to changing priorities, determine root causes, and develop solutions in a demanding work environment.
IT Project Manager: Strong organizational, multitasking, analytical, and administrative skills, including monitoring requirements and resolving cost, schedule, and priority conflicts.
IT Project Manager: Supervisory skills and ability to address sensitive, difficult, or confrontational issues.
IT Project Manager: At least seven years of experience implementing information systems or applications, e-business applications, and/or telecommunications systems.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Subject matter expertise in utility engineering and construction practices in transmission, distribution, and/or generation, and/or IT principles covering infrastructure/communications, operations, application development, production support, and service desk technologies.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Thorough knowledge of supervision and change management, typically acquired through related training and/or several years of direct or matrixed supervisory experience.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Thorough knowledge of project management standards and methodologies covering initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure; work breakdown structures; status tracking; scope management; and risk mitigation.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Demonstrated supervisory and leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills for working with all company levels and external contractors and consultants.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Ability to adapt to changing priorities, identify root causes, and develop solutions; build collaborative cross-functional teams; and develop, lead, and mentor others in program and project management.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Strong organizational, multitasking, analytical, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to resolve cost, schedule, and priority conflicts and to influence, motivate, and persuade others.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Ability to handle difficult or sensitive issues with tact, courtesy, and discretion.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: At least eight years of experience managing projects in the relevant subject matter areas, including at least six years as a lead project manager.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent is required.

Nice To Haves

IT Project Manager: Bachelor’s degree in information systems, e-business, telecommunications, project management, or a relevant discipline, or equivalent, is desired.
IT Project Manager: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly desired.
IT Project Manager: Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) certification is highly desired.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Working knowledge of regulatory requirements such as SOX, PUC, and permitting is highly desired.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Working knowledge of technology automation, including personal computers and/or mainframe systems, and related project management, spreadsheet, and word processing applications.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Experience with regulatory, social, and public affairs review processes involving neighborhood boards, community groups, government agencies, political leaders, or media is desirable.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification or equivalent is highly desired.
Enterprise Program and Project Consultant: Hawaii professional engineer registration or planner certification from a nationally recognized professional society such as AICP is desired.

Responsibilities

Manage multiple IT, e-business, telecommunications, business development, or enterprise programs and projects, as applicable to the assigned role.
Develop project or program plans, schedules, cost estimates, budgets, work breakdown structures, responsibility matrices, and communication and risk management plans.
Coordinate and lead cross-functional, matrixed project teams; establish accountabilities and ensure teams have the resources, information, and direction needed to succeed.
Negotiate project scope and schedules with sponsors, obtain approvals, solve problems, identify risks early, and lead teams toward project or program goals.
Prepare and present progress, status, review, closing, and cost reports as required.
Perform technical reviews and audits to assess compliance with standards, company policies, project plans, specifications, and applicable legal, regulatory, audit, safety, or SOX requirements; report findings.
Provide coaching, consulting, mentoring, and performance feedback to project and program managers, directors, team leads, and team members, as applicable.
For the consultant role, consolidate project status and assessments, identify shared-resource opportunities and inter-project conflicts, and escalate issues requiring executive attention.
For the consultant role, update enterprise program and project management standards and incorporate subject matter expert issues.
For the consultant role, build partnerships with executives and managers across HEI, HECO, HELCO, and MECO, and participate in corporate and business-unit strategic planning.
For the consultant role, identify enterprise-wide program/project management and organizational change management challenges and opportunities, and design and implement interventions.
For the IT Project Manager role, evaluate work requests, make recommendations, participate in work assignments with resource managers and other leaders, and potentially assist with company-level budgets.
For the IT Project Manager role, lead team work assignment and prioritization, monitor and evaluate work, and oversee performance, training, and development needs.
Participate in company emergency response activities as assigned.