Senior Technical Project Manager

Position Information:

Location: Orange, CT

Salary Range: $125,700 - $140,000

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 requir