Job description
Purpose
The Planning, Digital Transformation and Optimization department is a cross-functional team focused on improving processes and ways of working. Avangrid Renewables is in constant change, always striving to introduce new technologies, digitalization, and improvements in our daily activities through a portfolio of improvement projects.
Responsibilities
- Gather, evaluate, and prioritize different improvement initiatives coming from diverse sources.
- Perform analysis to evaluate the benefits of different initiatives or support other stakeholders to do it.
- Communicate with different stakeholders to evaluate and set priorities.
- Facilitate the decision-making process to select improvement projects to launch or remove from the portfolio.
- Define and continually improve Project Management methodology, rules, templates, tools, and quality gates.
- Oversee the portfolio of projects, ensuring that different project managers follow the methodology.
- Report progress and achievements of different projects and the portfolio with the help of different project managers.
- Prepare project reports to senior management and various internal and external stakeholders.
- Support creating analysis and presentations for potential projects, identifying the benefits to the organization.
- Manage own projects when necessary.
Skills and Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 3 years of working experience
- Excellent project management skills coupled with organization, flexibility, and strong attention to detail.
- Strong analytical skills, able to independently build complex business cases in Excel.
- Strong PowerPoint skills to outline projects, ideas at executive level.
- Outstanding presentation skills building power points and speaking in public.
- Engineering or science degree.
- Working experience in management consulting or in the energy sector.
- Experience working with or in different business areas like procurement, supply chain, operations, etc.
- Previous experience setting up or running a Project Management Office (PMO) or similar.
- Project management certificate: PMP or Scrum.
- Previous experience with scheduling tools such as MS Project, Primavera or similar.
- Experience with Power Apps, Power Automate or Power BI.
- Ability to navigate and succeed in a highly matrixed reporting structure, preferably at an international company.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with ability to lead people from other departments not reporting to him.
- Capacity to understand concepts related with engineering, maintenance, supply chain, procurement, contract management and power generation.
- Self-starter with demonstrated performance leading initiatives and building consensus at all levels of a matrixed global organization.
- Ability to efficiently manage multiple, concurrent, time-sensitive projects and priorities.
- Effectively provides and receives information orally in individual and group situations. Written expression is clear, concise, and conveys the desired message.
Competencies
- Be a role model
- Be agile
- Collaborate and Share
- Develop Self & Others
- Empower to grow
- Focus to achieve results
- Technical Skills
Our Selection Process
All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a medical Fit for Duty exam, background check, references, drug screen, verification of legal right to work in the U.S., and in some cases, a credit check. A credit check will be administered when a prospective employee will be working in Finance, Accounting, Treasury or where duties may involve handling of funds, accounts or cash. A Motor Vehicle (MVR) check will be administered when a prospective employee will be regularly using a company vehicle. Avangrid Renewables is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or any other status or class protected by federal or state law.
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Mobility Information
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country
Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within AVANGRD Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Renewables
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