Head of PMO & Portfolio Delivery (Remote)

Electric Power Engineers, LLC

Austin (TX)

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Comprehensive health and wellness — 3

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Job summary

Electric Power Engineers, LLC is seeking a senior PMO leader to design and lead a comprehensive PMO, including recruitment planning, processes, and functions for project management, scheduling, controls, and contract management. You will represent EPE at events, shape the PMO portfolio, and collaborate with Marketing and other departments to identify clients and craft offerings.

Responsibilities include leading PMO policy development, portfolio management, bid planning, and ensuring project

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
15+ years Project Management experience in the power generation industry.
Experience in leading a PMO office, or major project teams and knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
Strong communication and leadership skills are essential for this role.
Proficiency with MS Office, and familiarity with MS Project, Primavera P6 is highly desired.

Responsibilities

Project leadership - Contributes to implementation of continuous improvements for the project execution strategy for the clients’ project operation.
Project portfolio - Ensures the portfolio of projects is managed consistently, based on best practices.
Instructions and guidelines - Leads the Project Management Office team and ensures that policies, directives, instructions and guidelines are followed. Develops, and continuously improves respective processes, based on industry best practices. Ensures that findings from lessons learned from project execution are incorporated in continuous improvement actions.
Budget, sales and operations - Planning Participates in Bid/Sales Phase, i.e. in estimating and resource planning.
Project execution and control - Oversees project management activities at the portfolio level through project reviews with the management team on the client side and Project Managers. Takes an active role in resolving escalated issues. Oversees that project closure is performed properly and timely for all projects in the portfolio.
Contract and claims - Oversees the proper application of contract and claim management methods in accordance with the client’s policies, and contractual agreements.
Stakeholder relations - Builds and maintain relationships with key stakeholders of the PMO. Serves as an escalation point for individual and systemic project management issues.
Health, safety and environment (HSE) - Reinforces and maintains a culture of Health & Safety in all project operations.
People leadership and development - Leads the PMO team to establish and enforce an effective project management approach to achieve both project and organizational goals. Develops project organization, jointly with management team and Project Managers. Plans, assigns and manages project resources based on competencies, project fit and availability.
Ensures that the area of responsibility is structured to fit the business model, sufficiently staffed with skilled resources and directed appropriately. Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect reports.