Associate Project manager - Apex Systems

Job#: 2025530

Job Description:

• Responsible for all aspects of capital and expense projects, including: researching and benchmarking all options; recommending solutions; defining the project scope; developing project requirements and estimating project costs; identifying project benefits, risks, contingencies, dependencies, and metrics for success; preparing project authorization and justification documents; establishing project teams; assigning roles and responsibilities; overseeing project progress; providing status updates, project reports, and related communication; and ensuring successful project completion/implementation (on scope, on budget, on schedule, and achieving benefits as planned).
• Responsible for leading cross-functional project teams, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and determining actions required to prevent or recover from project-business objective mismatch, schedule challenges, dependency conflicts, execution challenges, resource constraints, scope creep, skill deficiencies, communication failures, and project risks.
• Manages the team’s creation and review of the project charter; creation of a comprehensive project plan; and development of a project schedule and communications plan. Establishes and oversees the change control methodology. Provides sensitivity/scenario analysis around critical assumptions and quantification of risk parameters.
• Works with business units, legal department, and enterprise risk management to probe business issues and to gain an understanding of regulatory, legislative, legal, and utility industry environments for the effective development of financial, strategic, and operational project assumptions.

• High degree of personal ownership and accountability.
• Takes initiative to complete tasks independently.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills (including written, oral, and public speaking) required.
• Proven ability to effectively collaborate with various departments and across disciplines.
• Successful track record in Project/Program Management.
• Strong ability to provide both strategic insight and perform detail-based analysis.
• Strong ability to understand and communicate complex issues in a simple and understandable manner verbally and in writing.

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