Leads the development of project / program scope, schedule, design, execution, and transition to day-to-day operations.
Provides expertise, direction, and immediacy of key decision making. Coaches, guides, and holds team members accountable. Resolves disputes.
Leads cross-functional teams of internal and external resources and hosts regular project / program status meetings.
Conducts technical workshops to identify functional system requirements.
Obtains approval for project funding
Develops resource plans
Generates and leads the execution of Testing and Training plans.
Develops business processes, protocols, and tools.
Responsible for various fiduciary responsibilities including investment planning, budgets, forecasts, variances, accounting, cost-benefit development.
Evaluates regulatory documents and directives, understands potential project / program impacts, and assures compliance.
Understands overarching policy, strategy, and business finances, including but not limited to Company documents, interrogatories, orders, and reports.
Designs, implements, and tracks KPI's, and implements corrective actions as appropriate.
Implement change management to accelerate process standardization and technology utilization to improve organizational effectiveness.
Responsible for project presentations, reports, and regulatory requests.
Develops & maintains SharePoint / MS Teams sites.
Provides linkage to management by communicating progress through regular status updates with KPI's, detailed schedule tracking, explanation of corrective actions, and escalation.
Collaborates across all areas of the organization.
Makes recommendations to business areas and management and implements solutions to promote efficiencies.
Collaborates with global colleagues to leverage technical synergies.
Responsible for Avangrid Networks Pi, Compliance and Protection Systems Projects including, investment planning, budgets, forecasts, variances, accounting, cost-benefit development and measurement adherence and cost recovery.
Understanding of regulatory impacts on project in matters related to compliance with regulatory directives.
Evaluates and summarizes documents for regulatory, policy, strategy, and business financial implications, including but not limited to Company documents, regulatory filings, interrogatories, orders, and reports.
Provides leadership on various aspects of the Networks Pi, Compliance and Protection Systems related projects. Management includes development of scope (schedule), project design execution and transition to day-to-day operations.
Develop cybersecurity metrics to gauge how conformance to cyber standards, policies, and technical requirements
Educate members and government agencies as required during cyber and physical events
Engage suppliers for purposes of framing appropriate mitigation/remediation countermeasures in operational and nonoperational environments
Ensure that all elements of the NERC Reliability Standards Program are completed to schedule
Establish and monitor Compliance Program milestones for all programs
Establish vendor process and metrics for cyber assurance
Establishes, administers, and monitors departmental standards, procedures, and performance to minimize risk and ensure compliance with
Hold regular Program meetings and document key decisions and progress toward compliance requirements
Identify, analyze, track and resolve risk and non-compliance program issues
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience; Change Management, PMP, NIST experience are a plus.
7 years relevant business experience required, 3 to 5 years of project / program management a plus.
Experience leading technical and business teams.
Knowledge of Operational Technology systems.
Knowledge and experience navigating the Procurement Process, including the development of RFPs, contract requirements, and Statements of Work with milestones
Understanding and experience with establishing project accounting to ensure cost recovery through accurate reporting.
Experience with SAP both local and corporate.
Experience in leading internal and external resources.
Proficient in Microsoft Office too
Additional Information
Position Information
Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager
Location: Rochester, NY
Salary Range: $116,640 - $145,800
Schedule: On Site - Office
Job Summary
This Senior Technical Project Manager position, which reports to the Senior Manager of Compliance Operations, Digital Identities and Pi Systems, will lead cross-functional projects and programs for Avangrid with objectives to successfully implement vi Agile and Waterfall methodologies timely and cost-effective technical initiatives to deliver business efficiencies.
The current range of projects include but are not limited to: Pi Electric Implementation, Pi Gas Implementation, Compliance focused Projects and Protection System Projects.
Dependent on project assignments, intermittent travel within Avangrid Territory will be required.