Southwest Power Pool · 1 day ago
Sr. Project Manager
Little Rock, AR
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$98K/yr - $127K/yr
6+ years expSouthwest Power Pool (SPP) is focused on delivering reliable and affordable electricity and fostering strong relationships. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale initiatives that align with SPP's operations and strategic objectives, overseeing the full project management lifecycle and ensuring successful project delivery.
EnergyEnergy Efficiency
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead and manage multiple medium to large complex projects requiring cross-functional coordination, stakeholder engagement, and vendor management to ensure alignment on project goals and objectives
Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately
Identifying and documenting project scope, milestones, deliverables, and budget
Oversee all aspects of project management, including scope, issues, risk, action items, dependencies, quality, cost, financial forecasting, change management, and scheduling, while ensuring adherence to budget and timelines
Direct a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, technical specialists, and vendors, ensuring successful execution of engineering tasks and design deliverables within established deadlines and quality standards
Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among project team members
Maintain comprehensive project documentation and records
Regularly maintain RAID logs so they can be referenced by any stakeholder
Proactively identify, communicate and manage project status, risks and issues, escalating where necessary
Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders and vendors, keeping the stakeholder’s needs and requirements continuously in view
Ensure project deliverables are fit for purpose
Manage project scope and use the Change Control process for new or changed scope
Developing a project schedule based on project scope, deliverables, and resource plan
Monitoring and controlling the project by, including but not limited to: 1) measuring project performance, 2) managing changes to project scope, schedule, and budget, 3) identifying and minimizing the impact of negative risk, 4) ensuring project deliverables conform to established quality standards/expectations, and 5) communicating project status to key stakeholders
Ensuring the successful execution of project, i.e., achieving the project deliverables within budget and schedule. Unless otherwise waived by the PMO Manager, explanations for variances 25% or more shall be documented
Collaborating with SPP Departments and project teams to identify, facilitate, and implement business process improvements, and documenting the benefits derived from the implemented business process improvements
Closing out the project by, including but not limited to, obtaining final acceptance of the project deliverables, collating lessons learned, and archiving project documents and other materials
Managing the overall delivery of a group of projects (program management)
Coordinating and prioritize changes to Integrated Marketplace major product group system (Markets, Settlements, or Internal IT system) resulting from the implementation of individual projects (product group management)
Coordinating, maintaining, and overseeing changes to PMO processes, procedures and templates
Follow SPP ePMO project management and methodology policies and procedures
Create project resource plan
Ensure that actual work matches the planned effort
Actively maintain resource requests and allocations
Identify and resolve resource overallocations and resource assignments
Review of all project resources and identify allocation issues
Actively manage vendor resources and deliverables per the project SOW
Maintain accurate project financial forecasts
Cost control and budget transparency
Ensure adherence to the approved project budget
Monthly review of project invoices and purchase orders with stakeholders and vendors
Understand and manage the different types of SOWs including Time and Material (T&M), fixed pricing or milestone-based payments
Review and understand project vendors SOWs. Identify project scope, SPP deliverables vs. Vendor deliverables, timelines, costs and compliance requirements
Ensure that applicable items in the SOW are reflected in the project schedule and/or RAID log
Ensure risk mitigation and compliance across all vendors
Proactively identify and manage potential cost overruns and communicate to stakeholders
Apply proficient decision making skills when confronted with ambiguity and less than desirable circumstances. Such skills include but are not necessarily limited to the ability to: make reasonable assumptions, identify issue(s), identify potential solution(s), and recommend a preferred solution
Understand the business and business processes performed by the assigned functional area(s)
Develop and manage processes that proactively support and promote compliance with the PMO’s SOC1 control objectives
Enhance overall effectiveness and productivity of SPP resources, and the PMO in particular, by providing leadership and direction to other PMO staff and assigned functional area(s) resources. Foster team-building within the PMO and provide coaching and mentoring to Project Managers and Project Analysts
Embrace and promote the SPP PMO’s Mission, Vision, and long-term goals and strategic initiatives
Embrace and promote SPP’s Mission, Value Propositions, Core Ideology, Culture Drivers, and Core Values as documented in the SPP Business Model
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field; or Project Management Professional Certification plus two(2) years of project management experience may be considered in lieu of educational requirement
Six (6) years of project management experience or closely related discipline (in excess of educational requirements stated above)
Demonstrated excellent written, verbal and communication skills
Maintain a professional attitude and appearance
Demonstrated experience in managing large, complex, high priority projects
Demonstrated experience with the Microsoft Office Suite software (i.e., SharePoint, MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint), or other comparable software
Strong organizational skills
Understanding of and compliance with SPP Policies and Procedures
Preferred
Specific knowledge of existing SPP Technology and SPP business and operating procedures
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Experience with SPP Project Management methodologies, tools and systems
Track record as Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master. Preferred 3+ years
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) or Scrum.org (PSM) + PSM II) or Scrum Alliance (Certified Scrum Master)
Benefits
Competitive pay with bonus opportunities
Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
Relocation assistance
Flexible working environment for positions that are eligible where employees have the flexibility to work from home and come in where collaborative in person work is needed.
Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a defined benefit plan fully funded by SPP
Company
Southwest Power Pool
SPP oversees the bulk electric grid & wholesale power market in the USA on behalf of a diverse group of utilities & transmission companies.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Lanny Nickell
President & Chief Executive Officer
Antoine Lucas
Vice President of Markets
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