Project Management Assistant; Hybrid

Project Managers Assistant spend the majority of time managing, coordinating and/or supporting activities related to the execution of major company projects. Project Managers accomplish work through matrixed employees/teams/vendors who are not direct reports but for whom the incumbent has direct accountability to lead and achieve project objectives. Project Managers lead a project from start to completion. Project Managers coordinate activities, resources, equipment, and information necessary for project completion, maintaining project plans, reports, and technical documents, and serving as a point of contact for the project team ensuring effective communication and team coordination.

Project managers lead planning, monitoring, and management of internal projects including complex, multi-year initiatives within and across OUs such as Finance, Regulatory, HR, Engineering, Transmission & Distribution, Legal, Customer Support, and Administrative Services as well as construction projects, infrastructure investment, and new facilities from initiation through completion. They lead development of project, resource, and staffing plans, secure required resources, track and report on progress, troubleshoot issues and ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule, cost and regulatory requirements.

They monitor performance and recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions including determining how changes will impact status, budget and timeline. Project Managers are assigned to a new project that could be in any OU or Function.

• Distributing communications
• Coordinating meetings
• Supporting user readiness activities
• Steering Committee Decks (PowerPoint presentations)
• Action item management
• Manage requests for new additions to training classes including ensuring in Training Environment, production environment
• Mapping employees to training classes
• Providing list of classes, instructors and participants
• Ensuring training has been scheduled through EL&D
• Rescheduling training when employees have missed, including make up sessions
• Reaching out to coordinate when field resources can be pulled out of field for training
• Obtaining classrooms in the districts/regions
• Tracking training completion
• Managing passwords in training environment
• Backup resource for scheduling training classes into Success Factors

• Education: bachelor's degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Work Experience:
  • Typically possesses 3 or more years of project management experience
  • Project Management certification is strongly preferred