Job Description

Become an Information Technology Project Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow.  In this job, you’ll provide project management oversight and direction to project teams to ensure solution and service delivery of initiatives within the IT Enterprise Portfolio.  As an Information Technology Project Manager, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone.  Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

A day in the life - Get ready to think big, work smart and shine bright!

Core Responsibility: Provides project management oversight and direction to project teams to ensure solution and service delivery of initiatives within the IT Enterprise Portfolio.  Directs project planning (scope, schedule, and budget), project initiation, project execution, and project closure by adhering to SCE IT standards and processes.  Experience in working in multiple projects simultaneously.  Good experience of using Microsoft projects.
Stakeholder Management: Partners and collaborates with multiple stakeholders at various levels of management including IT vendors, Telecom, Cybersecurity, Change & Release Management, Service Management, Operations, Finance, Supply Management, and clients.  Understanding of Stakeholder determination and engagement models.  Aligns multiple stakeholders to assess performance against project plans, issue resolution, and escalation; effectively communicates with all levels of management.
Core Project Management: Manages all stages of the systems development life cycle, including analysis, estimation, design, evaluation, demonstration, construction, testing, implementation, and post-implementation support through warranty period.  Understanding the V-Model of waterfall method.  Ensures project outcomes satisfy requirements and quality targets. Monitors, measures and reports on project progress to management and clients.  Leads forecasting, financial management, change management, risk management, and project tracking and controls for assigned projects.  Management of tight and challenging project schedules. Understanding of Earned Value (EV), Planned Value (PV), Schedule Variance (SV), Cost Variance (CV), Schedule Performance Index (SPI).
Project Cost Management: Manages project schedule and budget including cost plans, invoices, unit estimates, and work orders; develop 90% confidence in project estimates.  Maintains project financials and ongoing project status in SAP and IT’s project management tool.  Understanding of Actual Cost (AC), Cost Variance (CV), Cost performance Index (CPI), To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI).  Manages project dependencies including Change and Release management.  Responsible for capacity planning, forecasting, and balancing of people resources across the business units, IT, and suppliers.
Project Risk Management: Proactively and independently manages project risks and issues against project scope, timeline, and budget.  Utilizes project controls to ensure quality delivery of key project artifacts, including monitoring of quality and project performance metrics.  Understanding of Qualitative and Quantitative risk management methodologies.
Project Communication Management: Conducts and participates in regularly scheduled project team meetings and Sponsor updates to provide general status on project deliverables, milestones and overall project work.  Timely updating of status reporting and communications across stakeholder groups.  Objectivity and brevity of communication of expected.
Agile Project Experience: Experience in managing projects in Agile setting.  Understanding of Sprints, Minimum Viable Products and Kanban boards.  Experience in estimation using story points.  Understanding of control charts, burn down and burn up charts.  Understanding of Agile principles and processes.  Preferably certified in Agile (PMI-ACP) and experience with usage of UMT360, JIRA and Confluence.

Qualifications

The essentials

Seven or more years of project management experience which includes project scope, scheduling, and budget.

The preferred

Three years of experience working as an IT Project Manager in a regulated industry.
Two years of IT portfolio and customer relationship management experience.
Professional training and certifications consistent with Project Management including Six Sigma, ITIL, PMP and/or Agile or Scrum certification.
Experience in working in multiple projects simultaneously and using Microsoft project as a tool to manage execution.