About the role

Project Manager III managing customer and system projects for energy efficiency at Puget Sound Energy. Leading teams and ensuring compliance for project scope, schedule, and budget in a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

Assembles and leads multi-disciplinary project teams.
Identifies the scope of an assigned project and decides logical action to meet project requirements and deadlines.
Communicate and manage the customer relationship as the primary point of contact.
Accurately identify customer needs, set reasonable expectations, identify potential issues and share alternatives.
Perform effective upfront project planning and advocacy of PSE’s operational objectives to minimize costs and change orders, identify risks, and maximize efficiency through negotiation and conflict resolution.
Validate and refine the scope of an assigned project and decides logical action to meet project requirements and deadlines.
Recognizes technical issues that impact the projects under their leadership, and obtains resources to mitigate project risks.
Ensure compliance with codes, standards, and design, operation, and maintenance requirements.
Applies general rules, standards and guidelines to specific technical problems.
Communicate technical information clearly and concisely to non-technical audiences, sometimes in public settings.
Gathers, consolidates and analyzes facts in relation to project requirements.
Responsible for schedule and budget development, management and forecasting.
Supports emergency response work as requested.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
At least six years relevant work experience, including managing simple to medium complexity projects.
Strong communication and presentation skills and techniques to bring about agreement between divergent points of view.
Ability to write clear, concise and direct narrative and reports.
General knowledge and experience in scheduling, estimating, accounting and finance principles.
Experience with methods, techniques and procedures involved in budgeting, procurement and contract administration.
Strong knowledge in project management discipline to effectively arrange resources and manage multiple simple to medium complexity projects in a cross-functional environment.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and conceptual skills for single or multiple technical areas.
Strong negotiating and critical thinking skills.
Customer-oriented, a positive, team-oriented attitude, flexibility, an understanding of the business issues driving the need for the project, and solid work ethic are expected.
Leadership skills that can energize a multidisciplinary work team to respond to business needs.

Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
Additional voluntary options of supplemental life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare.
Employee assistance program (EAP).
401(k) investment option and a cash balance retirement plan.
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the calendar year.