The Opportunity:
Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.
National Grid is hiring a Senior Project Manager, Electricity Project Delivery. This position will preferably be based in Syracuse, NY but could also be located in one of our offices in either in Downstate NY or Waltham, MA. This is a hybrid position.
The Role:
The Senior Project Manager will primarily be responsible for supporting, executing, and reporting on the NY Electric Cost Consciousness Program.
What You'll Do:
- Evaluate current organizational processes, workflows, and systems to identify areas for improvement and efficiency gains
- Collaborate with teams to develop and propose practical solutions, including process redesign, automation, or technology enhancements
- Develop training materials, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and documentation to ensure that optimized processes are effectively adopted and maintained by teams
- Facilitate change management efforts by communicating proposed improvements, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders, and ensuring successful implementation
- Work with various key stakeholders to identify and develop a balanced portfolio of initiatives that will result in enduring operational efficiencies. This will require identifying key stakeholders, SMEs, tools, processes and data that will ensure viability of the efficiency opportunity
- Present to senior leadership on key initiatives and the Cost-Conscious Program
- Provide project management functions including schedule and milestone development, KPIs, financial reporting tied to Controllable Budgets and P&L, process flows, and RACIs
- Create and manage Electric-wide KPIs to identify gaps in performance against CAPEX and OPEX delivery to drive step changes in delivery effectiveness
- Local travel to New England and New York offices 25-30%
About You:
- Bachelors degree strongly preferred in business/finance/accounting/engineering or significant relevant experience required
- 5+ years'experience in project management, financial reporting and/or engineering required
- Experience to include managing budgets, schedules, and deliverables
- Successful delivery of complex projects required
- Demonstrated team leadership skills required
- Ability to break-down complex problem statements and create simple pathways forward
- Understanding of policies and processes and demonstrated ability to challenge existing processes and ways of working required
- Ability to build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- Knowledge of SAP, Powerplan, STORMS, Primavera and Business Intelligence Reporting preferred
- Valid driver's license required
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Salary
$105,000 - $124,000 a year
This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
National Grid utilizes an assessment that evaluates the job qualifications/characteristics using AI or statistically based scoring. For more information, please view NYC Local Law 144.
National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
