Sr Project Manager

Job Summary

The Sr. Project Manager oversees large‑scale utility construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring safety, quality, schedule, and budget objectives are met. This role manages all phases of project execution—including integration, risk, procurement, and stakeholder engagement—while adhering to NIPSCO standards and industry best practices. The position requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and proficiency in project management tools to deliver complex capital projects in challenging environments.

• Employs project integration processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and effectively transition the project to the customer to ensure project objective accomplishment.
• Integrates competence in the product life‑cycle components to the definition and management of non‑product objectives (safety, cost, schedule, human resource, etc.) and expands competence in integration management to align project resources for optimal productivity.
• Employs quality management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and ensures customer satisfaction.
• Employs risk management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and deliver project objectives.
• Employs procurement management proficiencies and processes to effectively transfer product and project risk (threats) and exploit, enhance, and share product opportunities to third parties at a fair and equitable price to establish and deliver objective value to both buyer and seller as a result of the project.
• Employs cost management proficiencies to effectively estimate, budget, and control costs within project objective (success) parameters for the project.
• Employs schedule management proficiencies to effectively plan, schedule, and deliver the project within the designated project time objective (success) parameters for the project.
• Employs the NIPSCO risk management utility to the development and management of projects, human resources, and stakeholders.
• Applies and integrates proficiency in NIPSCO human resource processes and skills to optimize coordination of the project management team performance and ensure optimum coordination is achieved given existing human resource policies and procedures. Uses effective human resource tools and techniques to motivate and drive contractor performance.
• Effectively engages project stakeholders; employs effective strategies in dealing with negative stakeholders and integrates the project objectives with the composite of individual project stakeholder requirements and expectations.
• Applies proficiency in effective communication management to manage and control project stakeholders.
• Applies proficiency in project governance and utilizes effective communication and objective management to ensure that the project's safety and environmental objectives are realized.
• The Project Manager will manage the project in accordance with industry best practices, the NIPSCO Organizational Process Assets, and the Project Management Guidelines and Standards.

• Bachelor's Degree in Technical plus 6 years technical experience.
• 7–9 years of project/architectural‑engineering/technical experience.
• 1–3 years as Project Manager plus 2 years’ experience as a PM.
• Expanded project management knowledge base in methodology, processes, tools, techniques, and software; increased personal maturity in project management (Level 3 maturity).
• Expanded comprehension in project management guidelines, standards, processes, and job aids.
• Expanded proficiency in project management information systems (PMIS) utilization and integration; scheduling, risk, cost, and performance metrics (dashboards) and tool integration of project controls information.
• Proficiency in leadership, management, organizational theory, and interpersonal skills in a situational‑leadership application. Manages project stakeholders using cognitive ability, personal effectiveness, innovation, value‑based decision‑making, integrated communication, conflict resolution, and teamwork.
• Capability to efficiently perform duties under stringent deadlines, schedules, and…