Senior Project Manager

APR Consulting; Irwindale (CA); Híbrido; USD 85.000 - 122.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

APR Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee projects with enterprise-wide safety impact for a major electric utility client in Irwindale, CA. The role supports safety priorities and goals with a hybrid work model (2 days onsite per week).

The position requires a Bachelor degree and 7+ years of project leadership experience managing large-scale programs, cross-functional teams, and complex budgets. Certification and a Master’s degree are preferred.

Formación

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in business or related field.
• 7+ years’ experience managing projects, programs or contracts.
• Experience implementing large scale programs/projects with major impacts.
• Experience facilitating cross functional teams.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Experience managing budgets, scope, schedule and resources.
• Experience interfacing with management, departments and vendors.
• Experience coordinating business readiness activities.
• Experience achieving outcomes through negotiation and influence.
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Experience prioritizing activities and monitoring assignments.
• Ability to integrate work across areas and manage risks.
• Strong ethics and continuous learning mindset.

Responsabilidades

• Manage projects and initiatives having major enterprise-wide safety impact to client’s in support of safety priorities and goals.
• Develop objectives and short to long range strategies.
• Lead analyses, plans, business cases, schedules, risk analyses, and metrics to drive project results.
• Lead cross-functional teams from inception to completion; facilitate meetings, communicate status, and drive results.
• Develop and maintain a master enterprise project plan for complex safety culture initiatives with tight timelines.
• Execute Safety Culture Transformation Roadmap and related safety strategies.

Conocimientos

Project management experience

Large-scale programs

Cross-functional facilitation

Analytical skills

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Change management

Negotiation & influence

Communication

Prioritization

Cross-functional integration

Decision making

Integrity

Educación

Bachelor degree in business or related field or equivalent

Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (preferred)

Project Management Certification (preferred)

Descripción del empleo

An electric utility client is looking for aSenior Project Managerwho will manage projects and initiatives having major enterprise-wide safety impact to client’s in support of safety priorities and goals.

Position:Senior Project Manager
Location:Irwindale, CA, 91702- Hybrid: 2 days onsite per week
Pay Rate: $75.13/hr. on W2
Duration: 12 months or longer
Schedule:1stshift, M-F, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage projects and initiatives having major enterprise-wide safety impact to client’s in support of safety priorities and goals.
• Develop objectives and short to long range strategies.
• Perform senior project management functions including analyses, project proposals, project plans, business cases, schedule, project scope definition, risk analysis/mitigation plans, resource requirement identification, developing and implementing metrics to measure and adjust.
• Lead company-wide cross-functional teams to drive project objectives from inception to completion; facilitate meetings, presentations and discussions to identify strategies for continuous improvement, communicate status updates and drive for project results.
• Develop and maintain master enterprise project plan for complex safety culture projects with high visibility and aggressive timelines (including integrating individual project plans, timelines, interdependencies, alignment, and communication needs).
• Responsible for executing overarching Safety Culture Transformation Roadmap and other related safety strategies

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree in business or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• 7+ years’ experience managing projects, programs or contracts
• Experience implementing large scale programs/projects with major impacts
• Experience facilitating cross functional teams
• Demonstrated strong analytical, problem solving and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated experience managing and/or supporting project budget, scope, schedule, and resources, and overseeing the formal planning, tracking, and reporting of project performance.
• Demonstrated experience interfacing and collaborating with team members, all levels of management, different departments and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating or implementing business readiness activities including stakeholder analysis, change interventions, training, and communications to ensure business and operational readiness for change.
• Demonstrated experience achieving desired outcomes and actions through negotiation and influence.
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience prioritizing activities, monitoring assignments, and holding team members accountable for results.
• Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, manage risks appropriately, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.
• Must demonstrate effective decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation.
• Must demonstrate strong ethics, interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferred: Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Certificate and/or Licenses: Project Management Certification

About our client

Our client is one of the largest electric utilities and a longtime leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States providing electricity for much of Southern California.

Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.