Senior HR Project Manager (Process Improvement)

Portland General Electric • Portland, OR

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all. Please submit a cover letter along with your resume when applying for this position There is only 1 position available, but we can hire the successful candidate as a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager Prior experience supporting HR functions is strongly preferred SUMMARY As a Senior Enterprise Project Manager, you will have the unique opportunity to lead major business projects from planning through execution, ensuring strategic alignment, operational efficiency, and minimal impact on customers. Oversees all aspects of project management, including project teams, budgets, schedules, and risks while driving business process improvements. Builds strong internal and external partnerships, partners with stakeholders, and ensures thorough project documentation, reporting, and knowledge sharing. Applies advanced project management and process improvement skills to deliver clear results, using strong analysis, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder coordination, while working independently to complete complex projects.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's degree in business, communications, psychology or computer science or other related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically eight or more years in project management or a related field.
• PMP certification required
• Advanced knowledge of project management science, methodologies and standards.
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to integrate project management knowledge areas including project scope, quality, time, cost, communication, procurement, human resources and risk management.
• Advanced knowledge of and skill in using software applications such as MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel spreadsheet and graphing, Access and Visio, Maximo and Power Plant.
• Advanced knowledge of, Project Profile system and PGE email system.
• Advanced knowledge of business process reengineering and continuous improvement methods and concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of systems thinking concepts and principles.
• Advanced knowledge of group problem-solving methods and techniques including problem analysis, nominal group and brainstorming techniques and consensus building.
• Advanced knowledge of Six- Sigma or similar methodologies and the application of human factors.
• Advanced listening skills, including the ability to draw information out and to see things from another's perspective.
• Advanced skills in writing technical and business requirements.
• Advanced communication skills, both written and oral, including negotiation, persuasion and presentation skills.
• Advanced consulting skills.
• Advanced analytical thinking skills.
• Advanced ability to manage stakeholders.
• Advanced business acumen.
• Advanced change leadership skills.
• Advanced conflict management skills.
• Advanced decision-making skills.
• Advanced enterprise/business awareness skills.
• Advanced facilitation skills.
• Advanced negotiation skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
• Advanced risk management skills.
• Does the job require a valid driver's license? - Yes
• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work a variable schedule
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience supporting HR functions is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Project Consultation and Planning - Responsible for leading a single major project or multiple moderate projects. Types include, but are not limited to, business systems or process improvement, department reorganizations and strategy implementation, training, feasibility studies and pilots. Consults with operations managers to ensure strategic alignment, cost effectiveness and mitigation of negative operational and/or customer impacts of business initiatives and projects; works with project sponsor to develop objectives and scope; assists in or develops business case/justification. Develops or oversees development of project plan(s) including WBS, schedule and cost baselines, dependencies and project roles and resource requirements; identifies project risks and mitigation strategies; partners and strategizes with Supply Chain, Legal, IT and project sponsor on vendor contract negotiations.
• Team Leadership - Leads multiple major projects/initiatives in completing strategic projects. Provides staff leadership to team members; facilitates team meetings, cultivates and reinforces group values, norms and behaviors; provides guidance and motivation to team on performance and productivity issues; ensures compliance with established project management methodologies and standards; takes corrective action as needed.
• Project Controls - Establishes and maintains formal controls to manage and monitor project budget, scope, quality, schedule and risks to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget and effectively. Negotiates necessary project changes with project sponsor. Maintains, adjusts and updates project plans as needed.
• Stakeholder Engagement - Develops communication plans and strategies; provides timely, accurate communication of project plans and status to stakeholders.
• Process Improvement - Leads and/or facilitates business process improvement (BPI) activities; assists managers and subject matter experts to identify, understand and improve or revise processes, practices and policies; assists managers in establishing process controls in order to measure baseline and post-improvement per formance to monitor success of improvement initiatives. Acts as a change agent, systematically driving continuous improvement using lean, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement techniques.
• Project Reporting and Documentation - Ensures all project documents are catalogued and archived in a secure and efficient manner; documents and files all "lessons learned" along with all project artifacts.
• Internal Collaboration - Develops and maintains key relationships across the business, including with senior executives; provides subject matter expertise for project management and/or process improvement. Collaborates with, mentors and/or assists in training other PMs or leads to continually improve project standards and methodology.
• External Relationships - Actively partners and participates with other utilities to strengthen and create opportunities to share best practices.

What This Job Offers

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