Hybrid Senior Project Manager

at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Job title: Senior Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $153,828 - $197,628 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Fresno, United States

About the role

• Project Manager developing and implementing multi-year engineering projects for PG&E. Leading project teams and managing risks while ensuring project deliverables and standards are met.

Responsibilities

• Develops and defines project scope and objectives.
• Establishes and leads project team with agreed-upon roles and responsibilities.
• Obtain commitment on detailed work plans including schedule, cost, resource, contingency and communication plans.
• Obtains management approval as needed and is responsible for project tracking and analysis of project costs, scope and schedule.
• Ensures project documentation is maintained.
• Develops, monitors and updates the project cash flow and financial forecasts.
• Manages dates, operations, tasks and scheduling in current software system (e.g. WM, EPM Microsoft Project Server).
• Ensures all specialized materials are ordered in a timely manner.
• Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• Communicates project status on a regular basis to all stakeholders.
• Assesses project risk and formulates mitigative contingency plans.
• Implements quality standards, reviews project deliverables and communicates variances accordingly.
• Identify and communicate lessons learned and incorporate prior lessons learned as best practices into projects.
• Adjusts project scope, with project sponsor approval, and schedule as appropriate to accommodate change.
• Identifies project performance issues, analyzes and addresses them in a timely manner.
• Effectively completes multiple projects concurrently.
• Represents and promotes the project and its contribution to company goals.
• Determines that project objectives are achievable.
• Provides guidance to engineering on producing complex risk and alternative analyses, studies and conceptual designs for presentation to project sponsor.
• Oversees and administrates EPC contracts in accordance with ESC Work Oversight Committee.
• Negotiates third party contracts, in support of other departments when appropriate.
• Develops and champions company-wide best practices.
• Makes presentations to PG&E Officers as appropriate.
• Arbitrates and resolves conflicts within the project.
• Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced project managers.
• Uses independent judgment in selecting and applying Project Management methods and techniques to determine cost-effective and practical solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or its equivalent in education and experience
• 8 years of PG&E (9 years outside) experience in project management, project controls, engineering, and/or construction
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, PMI
• Knowledge and experience with electric substations, electric distribution and transmission projects
• Fluent in the use of Project Management tools and current company tools, such as SAP Financials and Work Management modules and Primavera P6 Scheduling Software.
• Master’s degree in business administration, Engineering, Construction Management or other relevant major.