At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Senior Enterprise Project Manager

Operations Strategy & Planning

SUMMARY

As a Senior Enterprise Project Manager, you will have the unique opportunity to lead major strategic projects and initiatives that drive business transformation and operational excellence at Portland General Electric. You will plan, oversee, and implement new initiatives while consulting with operations leaders to ensure strategic alignment, cost-effectiveness, and risk mitigation. A successful candidate will have advanced knowledge of project management methodologies and business process reengineering, coupled with exceptional stakeholder management and change leadership skills. This role offers the chance to shape PGE's future in sustainable energy and contribute to advancing customer affordability through innovative projects and process improvements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Consultation and Planning - Responsible for leading a single major project or multiple moderate projects. Types include, but are not limited to, business systems or process improvement, department reorganizations and strategy implementation, training, feasibility studies and pilots. Consults with operations managers to ensure strategic alignment, cost effectiveness and mitigation of negative operational and/or customer impacts of business initiatives and projects; works with project sponsor to develop objectives and scope; assists in or develops business case/justification. Develops or oversees development of project plan(s) including WBS, schedule and cost baselines, dependencies and project roles and resource requirements; identifies project risks and mitigation strategies; partners and strategizes with Supply Chain, Legal, IT and project sponsor on vendor contract negotiations.

Team Leadership - Leads multiple major projects/initiatives in completing strategic projects. Provides staff leadership to team members; facilitates team meetings, cultivates and reinforces group values, norms and behaviors; provides guidance and motivation to team on performance and productivity issues; ensures compliance with established project management methodologies and standards; takes corrective action as needed.

Project Controls - Establishes and maintains formal controls to manage and monitor project budget, scope, quality, schedule and risks to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget and effectively. Negotiates necessary project changes with project sponsor. Maintains, adjusts and updates project plans as needed.

Stakeholder Engagement - Develops communication plans and strategies; provides timely, accurate communication of project plans and status to stakeholders.

Process Improvement - Leads and/or facilitates business process improvement (BPI) activities; assists managers and subject matter experts to identify, understand and improve or revise processes, practices and policies; assists managers in establishing process controls in order to measure baseline and post-improvement performance to monitor success of improvement initiatives. Acts as a change agent, systematically driving continuous improvement using lean, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement techniques.

Project Reporting and Documentation - Ensures all project documents are catalogued and archived in a secure and efficient manner; documents and files all "lessons learned" along with all project artifacts.

Internal Collaboration - Develops and maintains key relationships across the business, including with senior executives; provides subject matter expertise for project management and/or process improvement. Collaborates with, mentors and/or assists in training other PMs or leads to continually improve project standards and methodology.

External Relationships - Actively partners and participates with other utilities to strengthen and create opportunities to share best practices.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS

Education

• Requires a bachelor's degree in business, finance, data analysis, economics, or computer science or other related field or equivalent experience. An MBA is a preferred qualification.

Experience

• Typically eight or more years in project management or a related field.  Expertise