GIS Project Manager III

Position: GIS Project Manager III

Contract Duration: 12 months with strong possibility of extension to 36 months based on performance

Location: Jackson, Michigan (hybrid role) Mainly remote but must be onsite for vendor meetings when they arise. Prefer candidates that are close to Jackson, MI.

Description:

• Planning to transition the enterprise ArcGIS (geographic information system) platform to the latest ESRI Utility Network platform with deployment to the Azure could environment. This will be a three plus year complex program on behalf of the Gas and Electric business operation organizations.

Summary:

• The senior level program / project manager will be the acting “owners” representative responsible for leading and delivering this complex, multi-vendor, integrated Geographic Information System Solution. This resource will be responsible for managing the overall delivery, managing multiple vendor deliveries, managing risks, issues and mitigation plans along with budget reporting and management. Successful experience working with various IT and business teams to ensure successful implementation (scope, schedule, costs, and business benefits realized). This resource should have successful experience delivering multiple (USD)15 to (USD)30M programs.

Responsibilities:

Project Delivery and Operations Implementation:

• Manage all aspects of the program, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, and inter-dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Accountable for successful project delivery, where success is defined in partnership between Business Partners and IT, with a focus on cost efficiency and Business Partner satisfaction.
• Vendor management oversight of multiple System Integrators.
• Operates with significant autonomy and latitude in meeting business objectives and enabling efficient project delivery.
• Oversee the creation of project artifacts, such as project plans, metrics, team and stakeholder communications, resource requirements and schedules.
• Ensure requirements are developed, understood, and prioritized.
• Ensure that deliverables meet the agreed upon requirements and are completed on schedule, within budget, and with the defined level of quality.
• Collaborate as needed with internal support teams to ensure the program follows all company and departmental policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensure that deliverables meet the agreed upon requirements and completed on schedule, within budget, and with the defined level of quality.
• Ability to analyze, organize, and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines and constraints.
• Development creative contingency plans and mitigation strategies as needed to overcome schedule and budget constraints.
• Ensuring Program meets the enterprise Governance requirements defined at project commencement. Modify as needed for continuous improvement.
• Change Management, including awareness of multi-project dependencies.
• Resource Management Oversight, including identification of any resource constraints.
• Work with business and IT teams to Identify and acquire project resources.
• Ability to delegate project leadership tasks to manage multiple complex workstreams.
• Ability to mentor less experienced team members.
• Provide guidance for team members and review overall progress.
• Provide critical feedback to the individual members and/or the team member’s manager when necessary.
• Assist with the performance reviews for project-based resources as required.
• Interfacing with all teams as needed to ensure appropriate integration of solutions.
• Business Integration Support.
• Quality Management Oversight (Test strategies, plans, and execution)
• Organizational Change Management (OCM), Communications, Training Oversight
• Ensure regulatory and cyber requirements compliance.
• Transition planning for operations readiness as project phases transition to production.

Project Performance Messaging, Communications

• Ability to appropriately communicate, negotiate, influence internally, externally, and up and down through the organization.
• Critical Thinking: decision-making, strategic thinking, trade-off analysis, engineering/technical acumen, business acumen. Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of tactical and strategic problems.
• Oversight of the weekly stand-ups and status report outs. Metrics are measuring progress correctly; data is meaningful to business partners.
• Monitor and report project performance against the project plan and take corrective action when required.
• Lead regular project reviews with project sponsors and executive stakeholders. Bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly. Content support provided by solution system integrators and organizational change management teams.
• Communicate with executive management and their expanded staffs related to IT projects, operations, performance, and value delivery.
• Capability for leadership engagement and escalation when required.
• Oversight of OCM communications.

Budget Management:

• Develop and maintain project cost estimates, budgets, and financial forecasts.
• Accountable for performance against financial parameters while monitoring and reporting on budgetary aspects of project.
• Cost mitigation strategies to work through constraints as they arise.
• Regulatory Rate Case Support, as needed.
• Risk and Issues Management:
• Manage program risks, issues and change control process. Escalation as required.
• Ensure risks and issues documented and tracked within the project.
• Devise effective mitigation and escalation strategies with the project teams to address risks.

Requirements

5-10 years IT PM experience

SAP project integration experience

prior experience with vendor management and being able to interpret contracts and hold vendors accountable on what is listed in the contract and Statement of Work

navigating the IT and security processes for delivery

Azure experience

GIS experience and knowledge is preferred

PMP certification desirable

Clarity and/or Azure DevOps (ADO) or Microsoft Project experience is desirable

Telecom industry and/or utilities/oil & gas industry experience