Project Manager I, Project Engineering

Spire Inc.•Kansas City, MO

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position focuses on applying standards and governance, and creating awareness for Project Management and Change Management techniques on an Enterprise-wide level. This role will be responsible for managing the company’s cross-functional projects with varying risks, constraints and/or challenges, and will be empowered to focus on value creation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited University in an analytical field (i.e. Engineering, Science, Business, IT) is required.
5 years of related project experience required.
Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office applications is required, including MS Project and SharePoint/Teams.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional or other recognized project management curriculum (such as PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP), preferred.
Change management certification, preferred.
Prior experience leading large-scale, cross-functional projects preferred.
Experience with project management techniques preferred.
Prior experience in the Energy or Utility industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage a range of projects with varying timelines, cross functionality, requirements and scope.
Analyze problems, identify issues, summarize findings and collaborate with the project teams, always with a value-added mindset.
Assist in implementing change management tools and techniques in a flexible manner to optimize project results.
Analyze design construction schedule for modifications and update the schedule throughout the project duration.
Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team and ancillary projects.
Coordinate project progress meetings to identify action items and provide tracking status for outstanding action items.
Track and report on financial allocations.
Track and report on material procurement status, risks and delays.
Effectively communicate with Stakeholders; provide early and clear escalation of risks, identify to changes in work or direction, demonstrate flexibility in approach.
Develop comprehensive project documentation and distribute in a timely manner.
Lead project team members and contractors, influencing all participants to take positive action, be accountable for their assigned work.
Work closely with the Project Engineer during the design phase.
Lead the project team and contractors following contract award.
Provide monthly project reporting on financial allocations, project schedule and key updates.
Conduct post-mortems and deliver lessons learned reports.
Review work and provide feedback to project coordinators.
All other duties as assigned.