Electric Project Manager

Job Title: PM Major Projects 

Job Code: 107873 

This position will be location in a Valparaiso Eastport location. Candidates will be considered for Assistant Project Manager, Project Manager, and Senior Project Manager positions based on education and experience.

Summary

Project Manager is accountable for all aspects of project life cycle management, including accurate budgeting and forecasting, combined with effective planning and execution for designated projects within the Generation Major Projects organization. Projects managed by this organization typically range from ~$10M to over $500M in total spend. This team performs large and or complex projects or engineering studies for NIPSCO which includes projects supporting electric generation, electric transmission, environmental remediation, and other scopes of work of larger size or with higher complexity. Projects are typically first of their kind for NIPSCO and almost always multi-year.

The Project Manager requires proactive leadership to integrate and collaborate with both internal and external project stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Employs project integration processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and effectively transient the project to the customer and ensure project objective accomplishment

• Integrates competence in the product life cycle components to the definition and management of non-product objectives (safety, cost, schedule, human resource, etc.) Expand competence in integration management to align project resources for optimal productivity. Implements product to project scope configuration management. Applies expanding interpersonal skills to lead, manage, and direct the project management team and project stakeholders.

• Employs quality management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and ensures customer satisfaction.

• Employs risk management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and deliver project objectives

• Employs procurement management proficiencies and processes to effectively transfer product and project risk (threats) and exploit, enhance, and share product opportunities to third parties at a fair and equitable price to establish and deliver objective value to both buyer and seller as a result of the project.

• Employs cost management proficiencies to effectively estimate, budget, and control costs within project objective (success) parameters for the project

• Employs schedule management proficiencies to effectively plan, schedule, and deliver the project within the designated project time objective (success) parameters for the project

• Employs the NIPSCO risk management utility to the development and management of projects, human resources, and stakeholders

• Applies and integrates proficiency in NIPSCO human resource processes and skills to optimize coordination of the project management team performance and ensure optimum coordination is achieved given existing human resource policies and procedures. Uses effective human resource tools and techniques to motivate and drive contractor performance

• Effectively engages project stakeholders; employs effective strategies in dealing with negative stakeholders and integrate the project objectives with the composite of individual project stakeholder requirements and expectations.

• Applies proficiency in effective communication management to manage and control project stakeholders

• Applies proficiency in project governance and utilize effective communication and objective management to ensure that the project's safety and environmental objectives are realized.

• The Project Manager will manage the project in accordance with industry best practices, the NIPSCO Organizational Process Assets, the Project Management Guidelines and Standards 

Required Qualifications for Position

• Bachelor’s Degree in Technical plus 6 years technical experience or 9 years project/architectural-engineering/technical experience or Project Manager plus 2 years’ experience as a PM

• Expand the project management knowledge base in project management methodology, processes, tools, techniques, and software; increasing personal maturity in project management (Level 3 maturity)

• Expanded comprehension in project management guidelines, standard, processes, and job aids

• Expanded proficiency in project management information systems (PMIS) utilization and integration; scheduling software, risk management software, cost management software, and performance metrics (and dashboards) and tool integration of project controls information

• Applies an increasing proficiency in leadership, management, organizational theory, personal, interpersonal skills in a "situational leadership" application. Manages project stakeholders using cognitive ability, personal effectiveness, innovation, value based decision-making, integrated communication (soft and hard skills); conflict resolution, and team work

• Capability to efficiently perform duties under stringent deadlines, schedules, and conditions.

• Must be able to work a flexible work schedule. 

• Must be able to work in areas of high noise, dust, extreme temperatures, confined spaces and chemical hazards.

• Must possess a valid motor vehicle operator’s license.

• Ability to travel to support project goals and objectives

• All successful applicants will be required to pass the PMP PMI Project Management certification within either one year of their hire date or one year after the employee meets the necessary requirements to qualify for the examination.

Preferred Additional Qualifications for Position

• PMP PMI Project Management Certification; experience in large industrial Capital Project environments.