Software Services Project Manager

Software Services helps SEL customers turn their Blueframe investment into working adopted and expanding solutions. As a Software Services Project Manager you will lead customer engagements from the first conversation through deployment adoption and expansion. You will bring clarity to complex work keep the team and the customer aligned and make sure that what we promise plan and deliver stay in sync . You do not need to be the technical expert on the room you need to be the person who makes it possible for everyone else to do their best work.

We are looking for project managers who lead with communication organization and empathy; who can hold a schedule and a difficult conversation at the same time; and who are genuinely curious about the technical work happening around them. We will teach you Blueframe DTS and the shape of our engagements. You bring the discipline and the customer instincts.

What to Expect

This is a strategic new team at SEL and this role sits at the heart of it. Expect visibility direct customer relationships meaningful collaboration with engineers and leaders and the chance to help design how Software Services runs.

• Youll own the customer relationship on delivery. Youll be the person the customer counts on to know where things stand whats coming next and what they need to do to be ready.

• Youll lead our engagement lifecycle. From kickoff and planning through validation go-live and adoption checkpoints youll keep the plan honest and the team focused on customer outcomes.

• Youll partner closely with engineers. You do not need to be a technical architect you need to be a great teammate to the people who are and comfortable asking the questions that move the work forward.

• Youll shape how Software Services works. Templates playbooks dashboards reporting rhythms KPI reviews and reusable practices are being built right now and this role is part of that.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements from planning through deployment validation adoption and handoff.

• Own the engagements schedule milestones risks dependencies decisions and communications.

• Serve as the customers primary point of contact for engagement delivery and progress.

• Facilitate alignment across customer stakeholders operations IT/OT cybersecurity compliance engineering and leadership without needing to be the technical expert.

• Coordinate work across Software Services engineers Engineering Services Sales Technical Support Product Engineering and R&D.

• Keep scope clear. When new needs come up help decide together how to handle them .

• Maintain the artifacts that make delivery visible: schedules status updates risk logs decisions and customer-facing summaries.

• Contribute to reusable engagement patterns playbooks templates dashboards checklists and lessons learned that make the next engagement better.

• Support KPI tracking and reporting so that leadership customers and the team can see how engagements are performing.

• Partner with Sales and Account Management on expansion conversations and adoption success.

• Mentor teammates and grow with the team as Software Services grows.

• Understand. Create. Simplify.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Three or more years of project management program coordination or delivery leadership experience.

• Proven ability to lead schedules risks dependencies and communications for projects with multiple stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills comfortable talking with engineers customers and executives in the same week.

• Comfort working across ambiguity and helping teams find clarity.

• Willingness to learn the technical domain ( Blueframe Software Services practices utility/industrial operations) at a level that lets you ask good questions and make good decisions.

• Comfort coordinating technical work without needing to personally perform it.

P referred Qualifications and Experience

• PMP CSM SAFe or comparable project or program management training.

• Experience with software deployment systems integration or technical program management.

• Exposure to utility industrial critical infrastructure or OT-adjacent work.

• Experience running FATs SATs pilots or structured customer readiness activities.

• Experience preparing executive summaries adoption reports KPI reviews or business scorecards.

• Familiarity with tools such as project management platforms Microsoft 365 or collaboration and reporting tools.

You do not need most of these to apply. Communication organization and curiosity carry the most weight.

K nowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to translate customer goals into a clear plan the team can execute.

• Ability to lead people meetings and decisions with structure and empathy.

• Ability to hold a difficult conversation professionally and constructively.

• Ability to identify and communicate risk before it becomes a problem.

• Ability to write clearly and concisely the kind of writing that saves everyone time.

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees.

• Were 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.
• We offer top tier medical prescription dental vision life and disability insurance.
• We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days 9 paid sick days and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.
• We foster growth and development of our employees through avenues such as STEM courses apprenticeships tuition assistance and engineering development programs.
• Ask our team about other benefits including wellness fertility adoption and flexible spending benefits.

Open to other SEL office locations provided there is space available

Project Manager II: $39.00 - $59.00 per hour

Project Manager III: $88400 - $132700 annually

We are open to reviewing additional candidates with more or less experience and with or without an engineering degree and the pay range may differ if filled at a different level. Our pay ranges are determined by job and responsibility. We base our starting pay offer and title on job-related factors such as candidate experience training knowledge and skills.

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SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled.

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