Principal Project Manager, Project Management Office - Syracuse, United States - National Grid

Description

About us

National Grid is hiring a Project Manager for our NY AMI Meter and Field Deployment team. This role is based in our upstate NY, Niagara Mohawk territory.

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

As a key member of the NY Advanced Metering Infrastructure meter and field deployment (MFD) team this position will work as the principal project manager to ensure that the AMI program is achieving it's intended Operational benefits and defined deployment outcomes. The expectation is to plan, track, coordinate, and drive the strategic prioritization of deployment activities across cross-functional teams.

The position is responsible for providing visibility into MFDs progress, success, while providing strategic decision making through analysis of risks, requirements, and trends. Additionally, this position will manage regulatory approvals of operational assets, escalate obstacles, manage risk, and help drive continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the tracking and execution of meter and field deployment activities related to Advanced Meter Infrastructure
• Develop a framework to monitor AMI's program portfolio and ensure it remains aligned to strategic ambitions and is trending to achieve intended benefits.
• Maintain jurisdictional relationships with impacted business partners and executive leadership, to manage performance, gaps, and timely decision making.
• Lead critical regulatory relationships and approvals as it relates to the Operational elements of AMI
• Responsible for MFDs cross-functional alignment within the AMI program and engagement across key stakeholder groups, through weekly outreach, collaboration meetings, and program increments (PI)
• Support an agile project delivery and accountable for the prioritization and management of the MFD team agile program increments (PI) and sprint delivery.
• Understand AMI business case, to ensure it is executing to defined goals and regulatory obligations.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to track, resolve, mitigate, escalate deployment barriers and risk
• Support MFD budgets, regulatory filings, and benefits realization
• Other support tasks: Team building, communications, conflict management, coaching.

Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

• Able to analyze and present program trends in compelling and succinct narratives and generate top quality reports for executive audience.
• Drive reporting and/or accountability in a matrixed organization.
• Work across internal and external stakeholder groups/vendors in the business and IT to drive program performance.
• Proven team-oriented collaborator
• Self-motivated individual with ability to work through ambiguity and change, both autonomously and within a team.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree and related experience in program management, PMP Certification preferred.
• Demonstrated project management experience (5-10 years) on large-scale programs preferred.
• Advanced experience with Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional resources and a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Performance Excellence and continuous improvement experience

More Information

#LI-STR1

#LI-Hybrid

Upstate NY Salary

$132,000 - $155,000 a year

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.