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Senior Technical Program Manager
Position Code: 7096
Grade 8, Career Level: P4
In this role, you’ll research and analyze data to inform business decisions and contributes to substation or cross-departmental operations strategy and long-range planning. You’ll conduct data and system analysis to inform strategy, operations decisions and communicates results.
Career Level - Specialist

• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
• May lead functional teams or projects

Key ResponsibilitiesSpecialization typically specializes in strategic analytics or operational analytics but may perform work in more than one area of specialization.
Long-term Resource Scenario Planning

• Leads the overall analytical and evaluation strategy to better capture and understand the different long-term resource needs being requested from across the company for construction projects, maintenance activities, investigation, and alarm management rapid response activities, and communicates the trade-offs between different technical, insourcing and outsourcing, and constrained capacity resource options.
• Oversee the development and deployment of new information technology systems and applications on behalf of the Substation Operations Senior Manager and all impacted Substation departments. Serves as the dedicated IT Liaison for all Substation teams in the IT strategy decisions, articulation of Substation business needs, system requirements, design and development work, testing, implementation, and ongoing support for PGE enterprise systems in use by Substation Operations and related teams.
• Leads and/or personally provides complex analyses for individual resource and project investment decisions.

Prepare Plans and Reports Oversees the development of operational resource analysis, including financial and technical analysis and provides feedback to other managerial contributors to the analysis. Coordinates the integration of analyses, cross-functional and cross-departmental feedback, and inputs. Ensure that scenario analysis accurately reflects the resource opportunities available to PGE. Formulates and communicates resource action plans. Provides information to executives and other key stakeholders.
Operational & IT Strategy

• Guides Substation and Operations leadership in operational and information technology system developments and deployments. Leads work management analysis to identify, quantify, or otherwise support long-term PGE strategic objectives.
• Guides Substation leadership, managers, and field employees in maximizing the utilization of primary enterprise technology platforms.

Enterprise System Evaluation and Support Supports Substation Operations to adopt and fully utilize all existing and new technology platforms ensuring that PGE IT investment decisions result in significant productivity improvements across all resource utilization options. Oversees development of operational processes and configuration modifications across technology platforms in collaboration with PGE IT, to meet long-term strategic and operational needs.
Education/Experience/CertificationsEducation: Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or related financial or scientific discipline or equivalent experience.
Experience: Typically 8 or more years in utility or manufacturing experience in the area(s) of engineering, power operations, data analytics, operational excellence, manufacturing operations support or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
CompetenciesFunctional Competencies

• Expert knowledge of PGE and Substation Operations technology platforms, activities, and supporting processes.
• Expert knowledge of operational excellence frameworks and models, and scientific problem solving tools, thinking, and techniques.
• Expert knowledge of long-term resource planning evaluation options and considerations.
• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques and data-modeling theory and practices.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise work management enterprise systems including resource forecasting tools.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise system configuration options and requirements definition.
• Advanced skills in using database applications.
• Advanced skills with programming languages used in technology platforms.

Physical and Cognitive DemandsCognitive Level
Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).
Cognitive

• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

Schedule/ Attendance

• Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule
• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work a variable schedule
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance
• Ability to work shift schedule
• Ability to work on-call schedule

Physical Requirements:

• This position requires a valid driver's license and history of safe driving practices.
• Occasional driving/travel inside and outside the service territory.
• Lifting/pushing/pulling/carrying up to 10 lbs.
• Office, Field environments.

Compensation Range:
$113,925.00 - $189,875.00
Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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