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Senior Project Manager

Houston, TX

Job Description

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You'll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success-take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!


The role of the Sr Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to the deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. The Sr Project Manager will also define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.Create and maintain various project plans that communicates tasks, milestone dates, status and resource allocation.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage projects associated with mergers/acquisitions
  • Develop, present, and lead project planning efforts including project definition, project justification/NPV, proposals, success criteria, risks/issues, requirements definition, technical design, testing procedures and documentation, system documentation, user training, and production delivery while coordinating and communicating with business and technical resources.
  • Consult with program manager and sponsors to strategize, plan and implement needed projects within designated time and budget constraints.
  • Recognize and document business process gaps and propose improvements.
  • Extensive knowledge of interfaces, integrations and process flows.
  • Maintain demand management list and work queues for managing workload and communicating priorities and resource allocation to the business.
  • Host and facilitate regular meetings with business and technical resources for status updates, requirements definition, technical design, architectural reviews, demand management, and audit review.
  • Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
  • Maintain appropriate status reports, meeting minutes, and follow-up with business partners and technical resources.
  • Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
  • Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities.
  • Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
  • Review deliverables prepared by team before delivery to the business or production support.
  • Effectively applies appropriate project and development methodology and enforces project and development standards.
  • Prepare for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
  • Minimize and manage exposure and risk on projects.
  • Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
  • Maintain project actual and forecasted budgets utilizing the various IT systems used for requests for expenditures, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices.
  • Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience in project management will also be considered
  • 5+ years' experience in facilitating and managing small to large projects through project life cycle leading teams of 4-10 contractor resources.
  • 5+ years' hands-on experience with Microsoft Project developing complex plans comprising of multiple teams and resources including functional use of dependencies, resources, budgets, and reporting.
  • 5+ years' experience in recognizing, measuring and mitigating project risks with appropriate communication and escalation plans.
  • Ability to work independently with specific checkpoints as needed.
  • Excellent work discipline
  • Advanced time management and analytical skills
  • Understanding and familiarity with applications like SAP, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, OneNote
  • Ability to create/maintain project metrics and manage customer expectations on a weekly/monthly basis including delivery schedules, scope management, risks/issues, and budget through the life of the project(s).
  • Understanding and experience with Sarbanes Oxley controls and how the control environment impacts both the business and IT processes and systems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills with a strong focus on customer interaction, customer service, and presentation.
  • A motivated self-starter with capability to operate on their own with little direction and/or monitoring along with an enterprise vision - ability to see big picture and relate to corporate strategy
  • Capability to help deliver quality business solutions within restricted timelines while appropriately communicating/escalating risks, issues, or constraints as necessary to business management.
  • Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, business partners, and other departments.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
  • Ability to read communication styles of team members, business partners, and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines and be able to change delivery of communication accordingly.
  • PMP Certification preferred not required
  • Change management skills preferred not required
  • Some travel required up to 10% domestically

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.

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As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You'll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success-take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!


The role of the Sr Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to the deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. The Sr Project Manager will also define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.Create and maintain various project plans that communicates tasks, milestone dates, status and resource allocation.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage projects associated with mergers/acquisitions
  • Develop, present, and lead project planning efforts including project definition, project justification/NPV, proposals, success criteria, risks/issues, requirements definition, technical design, testing procedures and documentation, system documentation, user training, and production delivery while coordinating and communicating with business and technical resources.
  • Consult with program manager and sponsors to strategize, plan and implement needed projects within designated time and budget constraints.
  • Recognize and document business process gaps and propose improvements.
  • Extensive knowledge of interfaces, integrations and process flows.
  • Maintain demand management list and work queues for managing workload and communicating priorities and resource allocation to the business.
  • Host and facilitate regular meetings with business and technical resources for status updates, requirements definition, technical design, architectural reviews, demand management, and audit review.
  • Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
  • Maintain appropriate status reports, meeting minutes, and follow-up with business partners and technical resources.
  • Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
  • Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities.
  • Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
  • Review deliverables prepared by team before delivery to the business or production support.
  • Effectively applies appropriate project and development methodology and enforces project and development standards.
  • Prepare for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
  • Minimize and manage exposure and risk on projects.
  • Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
  • Maintain project actual and forecasted budgets utilizing the various IT systems used for requests for expenditures, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices.
  • Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience in project management will also be considered
  • 5+ years' experience in facilitating and managing small to large projects through project life cycle leading teams of 4-10 contractor resources.
  • 5+ years' hands-on experience with Microsoft Project developing complex plans comprising of multiple teams and resources including functional use of dependencies, resources, budgets, and reporting.
  • 5+ years' experience in recognizing, measuring and mitigating project risks with appropriate communication and escalation plans.
  • Ability to work independently with specific checkpoints as needed.
  • Excellent work discipline
  • Advanced time management and analytical skills
  • Understanding and familiarity with applications like SAP, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, OneNote
  • Ability to create/maintain project metrics and manage customer expectations on a weekly/monthly basis including delivery schedules, scope management, risks/issues, and budget through the life of the project(s).
  • Understanding and experience with Sarbanes Oxley controls and how the control environment impacts both the business and IT processes and systems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills with a strong focus on customer interaction, customer service, and presentation.
  • A motivated self-starter with capability to operate on their own with little direction and/or monitoring along with an enterprise vision - ability to see big picture and relate to corporate strategy
  • Capability to help deliver quality business solutions within restricted timelines while appropriately communicating/escalating risks, issues, or constraints as necessary to business management.
  • Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, business partners, and other departments.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
  • Ability to read communication styles of team members, business partners, and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines and be able to change delivery of communication accordingly.
  • PMP Certification preferred not required
  • Change management skills preferred not required
  • Some travel required up to 10% domestically

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.

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About NRG

At NRG, we are the power industry’s leading company and we’ve grown from a power generator into an energy provider that powers homes and businesses throughout America.


Our customer-focused mentality has led us to create technologies and tools that empower residents and organizations to think critically about their electricity, including where their power is coming from, what impact it has on the environment, and how they can become more conscious energy users.  We partner with businesses to customize innovative power and sustainability solutions that are informed by our years of experience as market leaders. And we work diligently to stay ahead of an ever-evolving energy climate with rising demands.

 

Energy is all around us, fueling our day-to-day experiences. It keeps our families safe, it keeps our businesses running and it helps our neighborhoods thrive. But we have to be willing to transform the way we approach energy and imagine new solutions that will strengthen our collective energy community. We’re proud to be leading that transformation, and we hope you’ll join us.

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