Strategic PMO & Operations Director (Opex)

TEP Tucson Electric Power Company; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucson Electric Power seeks an experienced leader to guide a team of Supervisors and Managers in governance, risk management, portfolio planning, and delivery of large-scale utility operations projects. You will partner with Energy Resources, Energy Delivery and Generation & Transmission Development to align the operations portfolio with strategic goals and ensure value delivery.

This role emphasizes change leadership, PMP-aligned methods, data-informed decision making, and coaching for

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Preferred: Master’s degree.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering and developing complex programs, projects and capital plans within the electric utility industry.
• Extensive experience in program and project management, including portfolio planning, project risk management, prioritization, scheduling, budgeting, and resource management.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels.
• Knowledge of electric utility systems, information technology systems and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Experience must include oversight of programs, supervision of staff, fiscal management and direct work with executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, plans and implements long and short-term strategic changes to assigned work groups.
• Oversees the development of annual comprehensive portfolio and project plans, including prioritization, risk-ranking, scope, budget, schedule, and resource allocation.
• Reviews strategic portfolio prioritization and resource allocation.
• Oversees the regular monitoring, managing and reporting of operational portfolios, programs and projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, milestones/functionality, and budgetary constraints.
• Collaborates with business leaders to support the definition of project objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Provides key portfolio and project performance, risk and predictive indicators to senior leaders to optimize project execution, eliminate process inefficiencies, and drive scalable business results.
• Establishes predictive analytics frameworks to forecast project bottlenecks, resource capacity constraints, and budget variances before they impact delivery timelines.
• Champions the use of Lean Six Sigma and other statistical data analysis methodologies to identify process improvement opportunities, quantify operational inefficiencies and validate the cost-savings of optimization initiatives.
• Evaluates and recommends the selection, development, assignment, performance, and compensation of team members.
• Assures adequate training for team supervisors in terms of technical capability and supervisory skills, including the cross-training to ensure supervisory rotational capability.
• Develops and manages team budgets which support the cost-effective implementation of departmental and organizational strategies, tactics, and operating plans.
• Demonstrates behaviours that support leadership commitment. Leads by example, communicates well, and stays attuned to the morale and wellbeing of the team.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Portfolio management

Project management

Budgeting

Risk management

Change leadership

Stakeholder management

Staff development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field

Master’s degree

Job description

Tucson Electric Power seeks an experienced leader to guide a team of Supervisors and Managers in governance, risk management, portfolio planning, and delivery of large-scale utility operations projects. You will partner with Energy Resources, Energy Delivery and Generation & Transmission Development to align the operations portfolio with strategic goals and ensure value delivery.

This role emphasizes change leadership, PMP-aligned methods, data-informed decision making, and coaching for