Senior GIS Project Manager

Schneider Electric; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 117,600 - 176,400; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric seeks a Senior Project Manager - GIS to drive IT, GIS and ADMS projects for North American utility clients. You will coordinate between sales handover and delivery, assemble project teams, manage scope, budget, and timelines, and ensure quality execution per contract.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, monitor performance, and report health and risks to Digital Grid leadership while maintaining stakeholder satisfaction and cash flow discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 7+ years of complex project management experience.
• 5+ years managing GIS or ADMS software implementation projects.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work in multicultural environments.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% (North America).

Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, and manage IT, GIS and ADMS projects for utilities.
• Oversee scope, budget, and timelines through project lifecycle.
• Lead technical staff and liaise between business and technical teams.
• Monitor progress, deadlines, and cost targets; ensure contract scope.
• Maintain project risk registers and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Report status to Digital Grid executive leadership.

Skills

Project management

GIS

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Risk management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Project

ArcFM

Esri GIS

MDM

CIS

Work Management

ERP software or Adobe Workfront

Job description

The Senior Project Manager - GIS is responsible for the successful delivery of projects from handover with the sales team to the delivery team, through project execution stages, culminating in closure and eventual handover to the support team. This includes working with digital grid team leads in assembling a project team and monitoring and controlling the project to ensure quality execution per the contract Scope of Work.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Planning and Coordination
• Timeline and Resource Management
• Budget and Cost Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management

Project Management Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects, GIS and ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management System) projects with Electrical Utilities.
• Manage project scope, budget, timelines throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
• Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage, monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met, and maintain the partner relationship between Schneider Electric and the client.
• Responsible for the delivery of complex, multi-phase Digital Grid projects (typically between $5m and $10m).
• Maintains a high-level knowledge of business processes, challenges, disruptions in the electric distribution industry, as well as the drivers and concerns around the deployment of Operations Technologies including DMS, SCADA, OMS, EMS. Maintains a general knowledge of other systems that make up electrical utility systems such as Arc FM, Esri GIS, MDM, CIS, Work Management, etc.
• Manages project execution through all stages of the SE Customer Project Process (Initiate and Setup, Design, Install and Commission and Closure)
• Builds and manages a cost and invoicing plan, including subcontractor invoices, which ensures positive cash flow and a high probability of achieving project finance KPI targets.
• Monitor project costs and track financial performance against budgetary targets.
• Engages Schneider Electric Contract Management through all stages of the project for advice on protecting program/project margin while identifying and exploiting opportunities to increase margin.
• Document and address stakeholder concerns / inquiries and proactively manage expectations throughout the project.
• Identify and resolve conflicts between project team, end client, external vendors and partners.
• Document project risks and apply mitigating procedures when required.
• Maintains a log of project travel expenses and receipts per Digital Grid PMO processes.
• Reports to Digital Grid executive leadership on the status and health of the project, its risks, opportunities, as well as overall client satisfaction.

To whom will you report?

• Sound knowledge of various project management & agile methods.
• Significant understanding of the Utility market
• Process orientated, able to govern against best practice.
• Sound knowledge of software project delivery lifecycles.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Proficiency in English & ability to work in multicultural environments.
• Complex project management experience (7+ years).
• 5 years or more experience managing GIS or ADMS software implementation projects.
• Knowledge of financial aspects of project management including standard project KPIs
• Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software or Adobe Workfront to plan resources.
• Project management software (Microsoft Project)
• Remote management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification considered an asset.
• Travel availability up to 25% of the time (North American Region)
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

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