Senior Project Manager - Energy and Utilities

Senior Project Manager - Energy and Utilities

Job Location: Boston, MA

Join our team

Centric Consulting is an international management consulting firm with expertise in digital, business and technology. We are looking for a Senior Project Manager - Energy and Utilities to join our growing team.

What We Offer?

We offer benefits to support your physical, emotional, mental and financial health:

• Time Off, When You Need It. A self-managed paid time off (PTO) program.
• Built For Families. Parental leave and flexible remote working options.
• Care For You and Yours. Flexible health care options for you, your family and your pets. Plus, long-term disability, 401(k) benefits and more!
• Help With the Little Things. Stipends to offset home office costs (such as internet, cell service and supplies).
• Our Success Is Your Success. A profit-sharing program and annual company-sponsored trip to celebrate our accomplishments together.
• Opportunities to Grow. Take courses. Attend conferences. Get certified.

Want to know why you should work with us and what we offer employees? Visit our website to learn more.

In this role, you will:

• Manage a significant complex enterprise level program
• Work with the other Project Managers and have experience with a multi-system implementation and cross system integrations of complex business processes. Experience delivering large complex projects with:
  • Multiple systems (Metering, Billing, Outage Management)
  • New application implementation integrating with legacy systems
• Advocate and support the policies, processes, and practices of the Program Management Office (PMO)/Next Generation Delivery Organization.
• Develops and communicates plans to deliver major IT initiatives to the IT and business communities; devises the summary and detailed project plans including tasks and interdependencies, milestones, people required including skill levels, and other resource and support requirements.
• Coach leaders, teams, and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Responsible for Agile Release Train metric reporting. Track the execution of features and stories; Escalate and track impediments.
• Serves as the IT point of contact and the primary interface on initiatives where the business /user community has appointed a project or program manager.
• Outlines the responsibilities of different principals / parties including customers, customer and IT management, team members, IT support groups, vendors, consultants, and affected or impacted groups.
• Coordinate preparation of statements of work and specifications, estimation of product / service costs and pricing, and negotiation and administration of contracts. Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and story estimation by teams and across the Agile Release Train.
• Develops and oversee Agile scope management processes and customer acceptance throughout the delivery cycle.
• Negotiates Information Technologies interests and manages external vendor, contractor, and material contracts.
• Monitor budget and resource levels and advise principals as to developing trends and prepare periodic variance projections.
• Ensure that dependencies outside the Team are understood and proactively managed. Ensure that risks and issues between teams and with the rest of the organization are understood and managed against expectations.
• Identify and implement continuous process improvements. Identify and pursue opportunities to improve Team execution; recommend enhancements related to new and/or existing workflows.
• Ensure communications, collaboration and coordination across teams, business partners, and other areas of IT.
• Develop and implement alternatives and/or solutions to mitigate problems, issues, conflicts, etc.
• Provide thought leadership and expertise across the program.

Who you are:

• Must have experience in delivering large and complex projects involving Utility Meter and Billing Systems and Smart Grid related initiatives.
• Knowledge of Operational Technologies (OT) and Information Technologies (IT) related to Control Systems for electric utilities, including Smart Grid Technologies.
• Exhibits an exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity and/or resourcefulness.
• Applies extensive organizational and/or delivery expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Independently and effectively demonstrates Agile execution, leadership, and use of the methodology for large transformational projects and programs, knows when and how to effectively escalate problems and coach others.
• Familiar with real-time technologies and integrations as well as large databases.

About Centric Consulting:

Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees across the country and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.

Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.

We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. At Centric, we are looking for and embrace candidates of all backgrounds and identities who have a hunger for learning, collaborating, and generating unmatched experiences. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential.