Project Manager - Security

Iberdrola•Orange, CT

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager will oversee emerging programs within the Resilience vertical, helping reduce organizational risk through readiness, preparedness, and exercises. The role also works with business units across the company to develop, maintain, and test comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Working under the strategic direction of the Manager and Senior Director of Resilience, the position supports maturation of the overall resilience program. The role leads business continuity planning and coordination, including maintaining business impact analyses and plans, supporting a company-wide business continuity liaison program, planning and evaluating mock-disaster exercises, and reporting program results and recommendations. It also develops and maintains resilience processes, supports alignment of operational resilience policies, coordinates audit and regulatory support, maintains NERC CIP compliance, and promotes a resilience culture through planning, education, training, and analytics. The position may serve as backup incident manager and support other resilience initiatives and projects. This is an on-site position five days a week in Orange, Connecticut, or Boston, Massachusetts. The position may be assigned a system emergency role that can require work outside the regular schedule or job duties. The salary range depends on experience and location: $128,320–$160,400 in Orange, CT, or $134,080–$167,600 in Boston, MA.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education.
At least 8 years of relevant experience.
Previous experience with business continuity and/or disaster recovery planning techniques.
Previous experience developing or maintaining a NERC CIP-compliant program.
Effective written and verbal communication, including strong questioning and listening skills and the ability to understand impacts beyond obvious answers.
Ability to work under pressure, make quick decisions, and escalate appropriately.
Strong organization and ability to independently manage deliverables and meet deadlines.
Ability to shift project priorities quickly and seamlessly based on the needs of CSRO.

Nice To Haves

Emergency management and/or training and exercise experience.
Proven project and process management experience.
Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and its relationship to key enterprise assets, applications, and business services.
Business continuity, emergency management, or project management certification.

Responsibilities

Lead development, maintenance, and implementation of resiliency solutions, including business continuity plans, business impact analyses, and procedures.
Serve as the business continuity liaison for Corporate Security and Resilience, updating and maintaining the department’s business impact analysis and business continuity plan annually.
Lead the company-wide business continuity liaison program, including monthly calls, timely and relevant documents, and focused meetings.
Plan, facilitate, coordinate, observe, and debrief annual corporate mock-disaster exercises to test plans and strategies.
Partner with business functions to identify strategic improvements and mitigations for interruptions and risks related to business, regulatory, or industry-specific changes.
Prepare reports on business continuity program results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
Create and maintain metrics and risk matrices and assist with stakeholder communications.
Serve as backup incident manager to the Resilience Manager.
Drive business stakeholder commitment, ownership, accountability, and results for business continuity planning.
Develop and maintain processes for identifying critical processes, vendors, and locations across the company.
Contribute to program processes and practices that keep the business resilience program current and aligned with appropriate industry standards and practices.
Identify strategic improvements that reduce the likelihood of business interruptions.
Coordinate with Iberdrola to align Iberdrola and Avangrid operational resilience policies.
Lead support for resilience-related internal and external audits, rate cases, and regulatory findings.
Maintain NERC CIP compliance throughout the program.
Foster a resilience culture through planning, education, training, and analytics.
Support exercise programming and incident response as part of overall resilience efforts.
Participate in other initiatives and ad hoc projects and perform other duties as assigned by management.