Project Manager - Local to NY, NJ, CT

Job Title – Project Manager
Location – White Plains, NY

Duration – 12 months

Hours Weekly: 37.5hrs/week

Hybrid onsite role – 3 days

Project Overview

•         The IT Project Manager role will support the execution of a variety of technical solutions across multiple business units at the client.

•         Background: RSC Digitalization: As part of the client''s continuous improvement in NERC Compliance systems, there are several projects occurring that are critical to continued business systems improvements.

•         The client''s ability to both maintain and improve its NERC compliance posture will be critical to both the client and the energy industry. Internal Audit: The current Internal Audit (IA) strategy and processes could benefit from enhancements to improve our effectiveness and efficiency.

•         The audit team is using tools and methodologies that require considerable manual effort, which can be time-consuming and may limit the thoroughness of audits.

•         This impacts the overall quality of audit outcomes.

•         Additionally, the IA department has an opportunity to modernize and align with technological advancements seen in other departments within the utility industry.

•         By integrating innovative technologies, the audit team can enhance their capabilities, streamline tasks, and modernize the audit processes to keep pace with industry standards.

•         Capacity Forecasting: The client currently operates a capacity price forecasting model that produces the client''s proprietary long term capacity price forecast, which is reflected in the client''s 10-year financial plan and utilized by various departments to inform the client''s investment decisions and guide the implementation of the client''s strategy.

•         The client''s capacity price forecasting model was developed in-house and is currently Excel based.

•         Being Excel based limits the flexibility of the model and introduces operational risk. This project is a collaboration with IT to explore and implement a more robust solution, likely involving a database with a computational engine.

Skills

•         Understand the software development life cycle and experienced in IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall).

•         Strong and tested project management skills including: stakeholder management, conflict resolution, risk mitigation, organization skills, communication skills, daily standups, creation and presentation of data (updates, status, etc), vendor management.

•         Organized, good communicator, deadline driven, planner, problem solver, and adaptible

•         Ability to promote and maintain a positive and inclusive work environment with project team members, co-workers, management, and vendors by behaving, collaborating, and communicating in a manner consistent with professional standards.

•         Superior interpersonal skills to ensure open communication across project teams. Ability to handle broad-based, often complex, communication for internal and/or external audiences.

•         Outstanding record of project delivery success

•         Intermediate-Advanced M365 Suite (e.g. Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, etc.) skills

Education & Certifications

•         Bachelor’s Degree in business or technical field.

•         Minimum 7 years of increasing responsible experience, including experience successfully coordinating various IT projects in a matrixed environment.