JOB TITLE: Sr. Project Manager

Location: North Fort Myers, FL

Work Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm

Our benefits include:

• Company-wide annual incentive plan
• Medical, vision and dental insurance
• 401(k) plan with a generous 6% company match
• Company funded Pension Plan
• On-site wellness/medical facility
• Company paid Short & Long-Term Disability insurance
• Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Wellness program with financial rewards
• Tuition reimbursement
• Group life insurance
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance

LCEC provides reliable, cost-competitive electricity to more than 242,000 customers throughout a five-county service territory located in Southwest Florida. We employ approximately 425 skilled employees and are one of more than 900 electric distribution cooperatives located throughout the United States. LCEC has been recognized locally and statewide as an industry leader and continually receives acknowledgment for the work that our employees do in the community along with other civic, environmental and professional honors.

Position Summary: The Enterprise Project Manager is responsible for leading complex projects that improve the performance of the organization in alignment with strategic priorities and objectives. This role requires high competency in project leadership, executive-level communication, analysis, business case development, prioritization, planning, problem solving, standardization, and project lifecycle management. The role will contribute significantly to the overall portfolio efficiency, while providing training, coaching, and support for project sponsors, managers, and teams. The project manager will contribute significantly to successful project delivery and benefits realization serving as a champion for positive, innovative change. This is a key role for company-wide stakeholder engagement and relationship management.
Position Responsibilities

• Apply strong leadership skills and project management expertise to organize and motivate project teams and achieve successful project delivery.
• Accountable for executing the full project lifecycle: Define project scope, validate project roles, create project plans, define project tasks, ensure required resource assignments, create/maintain project schedule, manage project budget, allocate project resources, track deliverables, monitor project progress, ensure change management in place, and perform other project management responsibilities as required.
• Produce written and verbal reports on project status and progress, including milestones, risks, actions, issues, and decisions.
• Communicate effectively and foster partnership with project sponsor, owner, and stakeholders.
• Request and coordinate project phase gate reviews, including ensuring high quality deliverables and all required work products are delivered for governance review and approval to proceed to next phase.
• Evaluate project results, including lessons learned and value realization.
• Provide expert guidance for business case development and project evaluation.
• Perform governance function for the processes, methods, tools, compliance, and adoption for process management, change request management, project management, policy structure, and other applicable areas of the governance model.
• Utilize performance metrics to indicate health and progress.
• Analyze, understand, and continuously communicate the overall health and status of the projects, keeping leadership informed to enable effective decision making.
• Analyze and prioritize projects based on alignment with strategic priorities.
• Facilitate the translation of value propositions into process performance goals.
• Partner with strategic priority team sponsors and stakeholders to analyze and report on outcomes of projects initiated to make progress on and/or achieve strategic objectives.
• Perform resource analysis during planning cycles and as input to the change request management process to allocate resources optimally and identify over-allocation risks.
• Monitor and evaluate project progress, risks, issues, and dependencies to maintain project control, including developing and communicating delivery metric.
• Develop and maintain project management standards, training, and coaching concepts to strengthen project leaders.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field. (Required)

Experience

• 10 to 15 Years experience in project management, including complex project management related to Information Technology and Engineering and/or leading programs. (Required)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expertise with project management and analysis tools and related methods. (Required)
• Ability to adjust multiple and changing priorities while interfacing effectively with all levels of the organization. (Required)
• Understanding of process management, change management, and strategy. (Preferred)
• General understanding of business analysis, ITIL, custom software development lifecycle, commercial off-the-shelf software implementation, emerging technologies, and application support concepts. (Preferred)
• General understanding of electric utility industry and cooperative business model. (Preferred)

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI Agile, Waterfall (Required)
• Certification in business analysis, process improvement, business design, change management or other related certification (Preferred)

Physical Demands and Working Environment: The physical demands and working environment characteristics described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Demands: Standing Occasionally,
  Walking Occasionally,
  Sitting Constantly,
  Lifting Rarely,
  Carrying Rarely,
  Pushing Rarely,
  Pulling Rarely,
  Climbing Rarely,
  Balancing Rarely,
  Stooping Rarely,
  Kneeling Rarely,
  Crouching Rarely,
  Crawling Rarely,
  Reaching Rarely,
  Handling Occasionally,
  Grasping Occasionally,
  Feeling Rarely,
  Talking Constantly,
  Hearing Constantly,
  Repetitive Motions Frequently,
  Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination Frequently,

• Working Environment: Constantly Air-conditioned office environment, Rarely Extreme cold, Rarely Extreme heat, Rarely Humidity, Rarely Wet, Occasionally Noise, Rarely Hazards, Rarely Temperature Change, Rarely Atmospheric Conditions, Rarely Vibration.

STORM DUTY REQUIREMENTS.... Responding to storms will be considered a condition of employment: LCEC provides critical services to our community during an emergency. Employees are required to participate in the response/recovery activities related to emergencies/disasters to maintain service to our LCEC members. Employees are required to work in their normal job duties or other assigned activities. Proper compensation will be made in accordance with the company's guidelines and procedures.

Please note that at the time a candidate is made a job offer, the candidate will be subject to a background check and a drug screening.