PMO Manager: Energy & Utilities Governance

Doocey Group; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Doocey Group, a long-established utility and civil engineering contractor, seeks a PMO Manager to lead governance, reporting, and controls across major energy/utilities projects. This role focuses on ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and with compliant practices.

You will develop programmes, manage dashboards, and coordinate stakeholders to support strategic bids and project execution while improving processes and applying robust governance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience within same role, or similar within the Energies & Utilities Sector.
• Ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, including employees, management, regulatory agencies, and the community.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills.
• Governance and compliance.
• Financial awareness analysis and reporting.
• Continuous improvement.
• Data analysis and reporting.
• Street works and permit experience.
• Accurate and timely reporting.
• Delivery of projects with agreed times, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Maintain PMO Governance frameworks, standards, and methodologies.
• Support project and program governance.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, and DNO/IDNO standards where applicable.
• Conduct and chair regular health checks and assurance reviews on the overall business unit performance.
• Ensure all program plans and terms and conditions are agreed and in place to enable a 14-day project mobilisation and handover document to be shared across the team prior to commencement.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and actions.
• Monitor project performance against agreed baselines.
• Coordinate change control processes.
• Track project budgets, forecasts, and actual expenses.
• Develop weekly reports and monthly program reports.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Provide management information to senior stakeholders.
• Highlight delivery risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Support cost control and financial reporting across the business unit in the required format.
• Implement all measurable KPI into a weekly dashboard.
• Responsible and manage all project completion documents to enable full recovery of applications.
• Assist with business case development and benefits tracking.
• Maintain program risk registers.
• Ensure all onboarding of resources adheres to the relevant governance process.
• Continuous improvement on Doocey Vision platform
• Facilitate risk review meetings and project deep dive support.
• Produce data reference all subcontractor and direct resources including management is tracked for performance.
• Review all weekly track sheet returns that are received on time, recorded, and reported.
• Implement a survey and design capability within the team either external or internal.
• Review the agreed spends including materials and plant are aligned in tender documents and we can track and measure against budgets.
• Track and measure against projects the EW and CE to protect margins.
• Ensure mitigation actions are assigned across the team and monitored for progress.
• Engage with project managers/supervision/suppliers/clients and stakeholders to protect the P&L and improve overall business process.
• Ensure we adhere and operate to the required Utilities standards.

Skills

Self-driven

Excellent planning

Governance and compliance

Financial awareness

Continuous improvement

Data analysis

Delivery on time and budget

Education

Prince 2 or project management qualification

MSP Practitioner

Tools

P6 Primavera

Clarity

Planview

Jira

MSP

AI/AR

Job description

Doocey Group, a long-established utility and civil engineering contractor, seeks a PMO Manager to lead governance, reporting, and controls across major energy/utilities projects. This role focuses on ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and with compliant practices.

You will develop programmes, manage dashboards, and coordinate stakeholders to support strategic bids and project execution while improving processes and applying robust governance standards.