Portland General Electric

Portland General Electric

Situation Awareness Technical Program Manager

Tualatin, Oregon

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
Data ScienceProject ManagementNegotiationForecastingExcelSupply ChainProcess ImprovementProcurementHRResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMicrosoft OfficeRemote Sensing

About the role

  • At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood.
  • Its core to our DNA and we haven't stopped since we started in 1888.
  • Key Job Information: Senior Technical Program Manager 7096 Grade 8 Career Level: P4 Specialist: Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.

Responsibilities

  • develops company best practices
  • works with project sponsor to develop objectives and scope
  • assists in or develops business case/justification.
  • Develops or oversees development of project plan(s), including work breakdown structure, schedule and cost baselines, overall budget management, dependencies and project roles and resource requirements
  • partners and strategizes with Supply Chain, Legal, IT, Fleet and project sponsor on vendor contract negotiations.
  • Owns the wildfire situational awareness technology portfolio, including identification, evaluation, prioritization, and execution of strategic technology investments.
  • Leads technology assessments, proof-of-concept initiatives, pilot programs, and operational demonstrations for emerging wildfire detection, monitoring, forecasting, intelligence, and response capabilities.
  • Develops business cases and investment strategies to support wildfire technology modernization and operational readiness objectives.
  • Strategy and Team Leadership Assists leadership in developing program strategy
  • Develops or oversees development of project plan(s), including work breakdown structure, schedule and cost baselines, overall budget management, dependencies and project roles and resource requirements; identifies project risks and mitigation strategies; partners and strategizes with Supply Chain, Legal, IT, Fleet and project sponsor on vendor contract negotiations.

Requirements

  • Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
  • Ability to follow accuracy standards
  • Ability to follow through on

Nice to have

  • Master's degree preferred.
  • Experience Typically eight or more years in related field.
  • Certifications, Licenses and Training Specialized licenses, certification and training may be preferred.
  • PE and/or PMP certification preferred.

Skills

  • Advanced knowledge of project management science, methodologies and standards.
  • Advanced knowledge of Project Profile system and PGE email system.
  • Advanced knowledge of business process reengineering and continuous improvement methods and concepts.
  • Advanced knowledge of systems thinking concepts and principles.
  • Advanced listening skills, including the ability to draw information out and to see things from another's perspective.
  • Advanced skills in writing technical and business requirements.
  • Advanced communication skills, both written and oral, including negotiation, persuasion and presentation skills.
  • Advanced consulting skills
  • Advanced decision-making skills
  • Functional Competencies
  • General Competencies
  • Intermediate enterprise/business awareness skills

Benefits

  • Establishes and monitors technology performance measures, operational value realization metrics, adoption targets, and benefit tracking associated with wildfire situational awareness investments.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • and mitigation of negative operational and/or customer impacts of business initiatives and projects; works with project sponsor to develop objectives and scope; assists in or develops business case/justification

This listing is sourced directly from Portland General Electric's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.