Senior HR Project Manager; Process Improvement

Position: Senior HR Project Manager (Process Improvement)
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. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We're always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

* Please submit a cover letter along with your resume when applying for this position

* There is only 1 position available, but we can hire the successful candidate as a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager

* Prior experience supporting HR functions is strongly preferred

SUMMARY

As a Senior Enterprise Project Manager, you will have the unique opportunity to lead major business projects from planning through execution, ensuring strategic alignment, operational efficiency, and minimal impact on customers. Oversees all aspects of project management, including project teams, budgets, schedules, and risks while driving business process improvements. Builds strong internal and external partnerships, partners with stakeholders, and ensures thorough project documentation, reporting, and knowledge sharing.

Applies advanced project management and process improvement skills to deliver clear results, using strong analysis, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder coordination, while working independently to complete complex projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Consultation and Planning - Responsible for leading a single major project or multiple moderate projects. Types include, but are not limited to, business systems or process improvement, department reorganizations and strategy implementation, training, feasibility studies and pilots. Consults with operations managers to ensure strategic alignment, cost effectiveness 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. Develops or oversees development of project plan(s) including WBS,

schedule and cost baselines, dependencies and project roles and resource requirements; identifies project risks and mitigation strategies; partners and strategizes with Supply Chain, Legal, IT and project sponsor on vendor contract negotiations.

Team Leadership - Leads multiple major projects/initiatives in completing strategic projects. Provides staff leadership to team members; facilitates team meetings, cultivates and reinforces group values, norms and behaviors; provides guidance and motivation to team on performance and productivity issues; ensures compliance with established project management methodologies and standards; takes corrective action as needed.

Project Controls - Establishes and maintains formal controls to manage and monitor project budget, scope, quality, schedule and risks to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget and effectively. Negotiates necessary project changes with project sponsor. Maintains, adjusts and updates project plans as needed.

Stakeholder Engagement - Develops communication plans and strategies; provides timely, accurate communication of project plans and status to stakeholders.

Process Improvement - Leads and/or facilitates business process improvement (BPI) activities; assists managers and subject matter experts to identify, understand and improve or revise processes, practices and policies; assists managers in establishing process controls in order to measure baseline and post-improvement per

formance to monitor success of improvement initiatives. Acts as a change agent, systematically driving continuous improvement using lean, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement techniques.

Project Reporting and Documentation - Ensures all project documents are catalogued and archived in a secure and efficient manner; documents and files all "lessons learned" along with all project artifacts.

Internal Collaboration - Develops and maintains key relationships across the business, including with senior executives; provides subject matter expertise for project management and/or process improvement. Collaborates with, mentors and/or assists in training other PMs or leads to continually improve project standards and methodology.

External Relationships - Actively partners and participates with other utilities to strengthen and create opportunities to share best practices.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS

Education

* Requires a bachelor's degree in business, communications, psychology or computer science or other related field or equivalent experience.

Experience

* Typically eight or more years in project management or a related field.

Certifications

* PMP certification required

COMPETENCIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES)

Functional Competencies

* Advanced knowledge of project management…