Duties & Responsibilities

• Supports specific work streams or short-term projects where the number of inter-dependencies and inter-connections are moderate to highly variable. Assigned activities and/or project(s) encompass a level of high variations requiring agile management of deadlines.
• Accomplishes results through own efforts. May act as lead to other Project Management Specialists.
• Conducts analysis and provides status reports that communicate project health and potential risks/roadblocks. Challenges are varied and complex.
• Applies advanced in-depth knowledge of project management support principles, methods, procedures, and practices in the development and execution of project management support activities.

Required Qualifications & Education

• Associate Degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Typically possesses five or more years of project support experience.
• Typically possesses two or more years of experience performing project management functions such as investigating and resolving problems, coordinating and communicating key project decisions and deliverables (i.e. Change Management documents.)
• Broad knowledge of project management and operational policies, procedures, and practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, construction management or related field.
• Project Management Certificate.
• Demonstrated experience working in a utility or contractor environment supporting the development and/or execution of major transmission or distribution projects/programs, large capital projects, or Third Party interconnection projects.
• Demonstrated intermediate- to advanced-level experience using Microsoft Office suite, including spreadsheet and presentation software tools to report out data trends and analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with applications such as SharePoint, Aconex or other document management platforms.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple disciplines, interdepartmental teams and engaging with internal and external suppliers and stakeholders.
• Ability to proactively manage time constraints, prioritize work, and resolve project related concerns through strong oral and written communication skills to effectively communicate at all levels in the organization.
• Customer focused and have ability to understand and appropriately respond to internal and external stakeholders’ business needs.
• Strong ethics, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

Additional Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Transmission line knowledge is preferable.
• Proactive; accomplishes results through own efforts.
• Identifies problems and solutions. Provides input to project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables and budgets.
• Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts amongst team members and, if needed, escalates to Project Manager.
• Conducts analysis and prepares presentations.
• Exercises independent judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action.
• Applies advanced in-depth knowledge of project management support principles.
• Proactive in addressing project team needs and reminders; good communicator, both written and verbally. Will be interacting and coordinating with outside agencies, licensing, and project teams.
• Recognizes verbal cues in meetings (action items, requests, additional meetings to be setup, etc.)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, OneDrive, Sharepoint
• Adept in Excel for advanced data manipulation
• Portfolio mindset (will be tracking ~100 projects)
• Associate degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Possesses five or more years of project support experience.
• Possesses two or more years of experience performing project management functions.