WGL - Project Manager, Major Projects Delivery
About The Position
Washington Gas is hiring an experienced Project Manager to plan and deliver high-impact strategic initiatives and major infrastructure projects across its U.S. Utilities Enterprise. The position requires some travel within the company’s service territories. The Project Manager partners with business, strategy, and cross-functional leaders to define projects aligned with organizational priorities, establish objectives and execution strategies, and develop integrated plans. The role leads projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closeout, managing scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues, changes, decisions, and dependencies. It also applies project governance and stage-gate frameworks, maintains project documentation, monitors performance, and develops corrective actions. The role supports coordination of programs and portfolios involving interdependent projects, including planning, prioritization, resource planning, KPI tracking, and reporting. It builds relationships with leaders, teams, external partners, and stakeholders; facilitates collaboration; communicates project status and recommendations; and coordinates vendor and contractor engagement as assigned. The Project Manager prepares leadership reports, forecasts, and presentations, leads project closeout and lessons learned, and recommends improvements to project delivery standards, processes, tools, and organizational capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or Construction Management, or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- At least seven years of progressively responsible project management experience, including leading complex cross-functional projects or strategic initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing project scope, schedule, cost, risks, issues, changes, resources, and stakeholder communications.
- Experience working within a PMO or structured project governance environment.
- Working knowledge of recognized project management methodologies and tools, including predictive, adaptive, or hybrid delivery approaches.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Planner, or comparable platforms.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or other advanced degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
- Experience delivering major infrastructure or capital projects.
- Experience in a regulated utility or another regulated industry.
- Understanding of utility operations, regulatory processes, construction delivery, and contractor management.
- Experience coordinating external vendors, consultants, or construction contractors.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business, strategy, and cross-functional leaders to define major projects and strategic initiatives aligned with organizational priorities.
- Establish project objectives, scope, cost, schedule, deliverables, success measures, assumptions, constraints, resource requirements, and execution strategies.
- Develop integrated project plans and schedules covering activities, milestones, dependencies, decision points, and resource needs.
- Confirm alignment among project objectives, business requirements, regulatory commitments, and expected outcomes.
- Lead assigned projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closeout.
- Manage project scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues, changes, decisions, and dependencies.
- Establish project controls and maintain accurate, timely project documentation.
- Monitor project performance, evaluate variances, and lead corrective-action development and implementation.
- Apply governance frameworks and stage-gate requirements to support oversight, quality assurance, and timely decisions.
- Identify, assess, assign, monitor, escalate, and resolve project risks and issues at the appropriate level.
- Support coordination of programs composed of multiple interdependent projects.
- Contribute to program and portfolio planning, prioritization, resource planning, KPI tracking, and performance reporting.
- Identify cross-project risks, issues, resource conflicts, and dependencies, and facilitate coordinated resolution.
- Support the Major Projects PMO in strengthening delivery standards, governance, controls, tools, and reporting practices.
- Build productive relationships with senior leaders, functional leaders, project teams, external partners, and other stakeholders.
- Establish project roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and communication protocols.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and maintain stakeholder alignment.
- Communicate project health, progress, risks, decisions, and recommended actions clearly and concisely.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and promptly escalate matters requiring leadership attention.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain and other business functions on vendor and contractor engagement and performance, as assigned.
- Define and monitor KPIs and other measures of project performance and success.
- Prepare decision-oriented project reports, forecasts, presentations, and leadership recommendations.
- Lead project closeout, including completion verification, transition planning, lessons learned, and documentation retention.
- Identify recurring delivery challenges and recommend improvements to governance, controls, processes, tools, and organizational capabilities.
- Lead or support continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen the Major Projects delivery system.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Holiday pay
- Incentive bonus plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
