Project Manager , Project Engineering

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Spire is seeking a Project Manager I, Project Engineering. This position focuses on applying standards and governance, and creating awareness for Project Management and Change Management techniques on an Enterprise-wide level. This role will be responsible for managing the company’s cross-functional projects with varying risks, constraints and/or challenges, and will be empowered to focus on value creation.

We are committed to understanding the needs of the homes and businesses we serve. That's why we're always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate the competencies that bring the Spire vision, mission and culture to life:

• Adaptability:
  We embrace change, continuously seeking opportunities for improvement while remaining open-minded and flexible in response to evolving conditions and customer, stakeholder and company needs.
• Collaboration:
  
  We achieve more together through a foundation of respect, embracing healthy conflict, actively seeking and providing actionable feedback and fostering an environment where everyone’s input is welcomed.
• Ownership:
  We see things through, demonstrate accountability, honor commitments, take responsibility for outcomes and demonstrate initiative.

By living our values and competencies, we strive to create an environment where employees feel welcome, respected and valued.

• Manage a range of projects with varying timelines, cross functionality, requirements and scope.
• Analyze problems, identify issues, summarize findings and collaborate with the project teams, always with a value-added mindset.
• Assist in implementing change management tools and techniques in a flexible manner to optimize project results.
• Analyze design construction schedule for modifications and update the schedule throughout the project duration.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team and ancillary projects.
• Coordinate project progress meetings to identify action items and provide tracking status for outstanding action items.
• Track and report on financial allocations.
• Track and report on material procurement status, risks and delays.
• Effectively communicate with Stakeholders; provide early and clear escalation of risks, identify to changes in work or direction, demonstrate flexibility in approach.
• Develop comprehensive project documentation and distribute in a timely manner.
• Lead project team members and contractors, influencing all participants to take positive action, be accountable for their assigned work.
• Work closely with the Project Engineer during the design phase.
• Lead the project team and contractors following contract award.
• Provide monthly project reporting on financial allocations, project schedule and key updates.
• Conduct post-mortems and deliver lessons learned reports.
• Review work and provide feedback to project coordinators.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others inside and outside of the Company.
• Possess the ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.
• Ability to demonstrate and master the core and job category competencies, and essential characteristics applicable for this role within the organization.
• Ability to work/lead in an ethical and safe manner and support the company’s values.
• Ability to lead by example in support of the Company’s essential characteristics and values: strong ethics and integrity, dedication to a safe work environment, commitment…