Project Manager; Oracle ERP Implementation), Temp

Overview

Pattern Energy is a leading renewable energy company that develops, constructs, owns, and operates high-quality wind and solar generation, transmission, and energy storage facilities. Our mission is to transition the world to renewable energy through the sustainable development and responsible operation of facilities with respect for the environment, communities, and cultures where we have a presence.

Our approach begins and ends with establishing trust, accountability, and transparency. Our company values of creative spirit, pride of ownership, follow-through, and a team-first attitude drive us to pursue our mission every day. Our culture supports our values by fostering innovative and critical thinking and a deep belief in living up to our promises. Headquartered in the United States, Pattern has a global portfolio of more than 30 power facilities and transmission assets, serving various customers that provide low-cost clean energy to millions of consumers.

Job Purpose

This role is for an experienced project manager with 10+ years’ experience in Oracle cloud and/or on-premise implementations covering major modules including ERP, EPM, SCM, Field Services and others, or similar type ERP implementation projects. This will involve skilful strategizing and meticulous coordination to set project milestones, develop project plans and schedules while being the central driver to ensure teams meet deadlines, track and reconcile budgets/actuals, conduct risk assessments, and ensure highly organized project performance reporting and effective risk mitigation measures.

Deep understanding and effective use of industry leading project management software tools is also required to maximize efficiencies.

Key Accountabilities

Role accountabilities include:

• Project Initiation and Planning / "Discovery phase" of change lifecycle. This includes working with businesses partners to identify issues, risks, opportunities, etc. Coordination and creation of schedules, budget, project charters, project plans, requirements definition, etc. Must have extensive experience developing and maintaining project plans, risk management, status and project tracking capabilities. Must be able to implement PM framework and train project participants on how to use tools, required inputs from them to track status, RAID log etc.
• Project Execution: "Delivery phase" of change lifecycle. This includes coordination and completion of hands-on work and providing direction to project team members, risk mitigation, project performance reporting, etc. Ability to maintain and administer a testing and cutover plan working with large groups of team members to ensure successful execution of the plans.
• Project Review/Support: "Embed phase" of change lifecycle. Carrying out post-go-live activities such as monitoring adoption metrics, reviewing implementation feedback for future improvements, and carefully archive detailed project documentation.

Experience/Qualifications/Education Required

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, engineering, finance/accounting, or related fields required.
• At least 5 years of IT/System support or project coordination or management experience.
• At least 8 years of general working experience.
• Working in a SOX regulated environment and experience maintaining audit quality project documentation is required.
• Project management certification (PMP, Six Sigma, etc.), highly preferred.
• Experience in Energy industry and/or construction projects, preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience and established proficiency in a variety of business applications, including but not limited to:
• • High proficiency in Project Management software tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Azure Dev Ops , MS Projects and  required
  • MS Office Applications (Projects, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, SharePoint) – Proficiency in VBA and Excel formulas preferred.
  • Visio, Lucid or other process mapping software
• Demonstrated problem solving and communication abilities, including:
• Working with cross-functional teams as a project manager driving solutions and producing results for projects
• Must be self-starting and demonstrate ability to be…