GIS Project Manager - Work from home

Immediately seeking a Strong Project or Program Manager with knowledge in GIS (Geographic Information System (GIS). We are looking for a PM that has exposure to GIS projects and the systems, such as Esri or others. Energy and utility industry experience required. GIS has been applied to design renewable-energy infrastructure and support energy system planning, such as the potential assessment of renewable energy applications, energy simulation and modelling, building energy demand assessment, site selection, and graphical impact assessment and more.

This PM will be responsible for managing a large effort to replace and consolidate design tools, that are used within the large GIS system. PM will oversee the migration and consolidation to the new design tool.

This role will have vendor management, presentation and meeting involvement and driving the scheduling and project charter for a large enterprise effort.

Looking for a Project Manager that works with the customer to represent them 8-5pm and their job is to manage the design tool implementation for our client.

The transformation requires our client to be heavily involved and we are seeking a dedicated PM to step in and whose main focus is the project around the design tool. the PM will basically become part of the team to keep the transformation rolling for the larger effort.

Make sure vendor partner is on-track and being held accountable.

GIS replacement is going on in parallel to the design tool transformation. The PM will also be involved with the GIS replacement meetings and have a POV from the design tool transformation and keep track of what Is going on in that effort, since they are so crucial to one another.

Team cooperation skills needed.

Ability to manage the challenges from a vendor management stand point.

Program- work streams, GIS replacement, all to the latest version onto esri and incorporating all tools and going live end of 25 or early 2026.

The hugely complicated, design phase is coming to an end, new phase is starting in January- design phase and implementation will kick off and this is hand in hand with the new design tool project, where this PM would be aligned.

• Prepares the Project Charter whereby the goals, objectives, risks, assumptions, organizational structure, staffing level, team organization, roles and responsibilities, work breakdown structure and deliverables are identified and defined.
• Manages the overall Project and its scheduled activities and ensures that resources are available and channeled to produce the planned deliverables on time and within the approved budget.
• Develops and manages Project Budgets which support the cost-effective implementation of IT strategies, tactics and operating plans.
• Organizes the Project team into appropriate work groups and works closely with the Business Lead, Technical Lead, and Test Lead to support and guide the entire Project team in their effort to achieve its business goals and produce deliverables within the specified time frames and financial constraints.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to project participants and leaders both outside and within the Project Management Office (PMO). Builds, maintains and improves guidance to project managers. Builds and maintains an inventory of project management best practices. (Internal and External).
• Leads or supports interdisciplinary teams in preparing and developing project related documents.
• Conducts stakeholder outreach and communication efforts related to the Project, including conducting Steering Committee meetings, preparing notification letters and other documents and incorporating stakeholder input into the Project’s documents.
• Excellent at Relationship Building
• Take complete ownership of assigned projects

Attention to Detail

• Hold people accountable; team likes being kept honest
• Actively leads team to victory not just a "note taker" or someone who can put together a PowerPoint
• Understands project drivers, complexities, interrelationships, and constraints
• Reaches out to vendors and management actively, so as to get ahead of issues
• Develops task lists and runs down the tasks daily
• Establishes “esprit de corps” with team
• Actively surfaces resource, vendor, and project dependencies which negatively affect project timeline or quality
• Highly organized and able to leverage that to help fill gaps amongst individual contributors
• Consistently follows and applies the standard project management methodology
• Excellent attendance

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