Project Manager Sr

Overview:


TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.


Job Title: Project Manager Sr

Location: 2705 West Lake Drive, Taylor, TX 76574

Duration: 6 Months contract to hire

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Schedule: Remote

Job Description:

Job Summary:

• Manages projects in accordance with established project governance.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of assigned projects for designated IT or Business areas to ensure goals and approved scope are accomplished within prescribed timelines and funding parameters.
• Develops, manages, and coordinates project plans of varying complexity.
• Manages detailed work breakdown structures, resource commitments, budgets, risks, and communications for each phase of the project, as required by project governance.
• Partners with the Project Business Owner and Technical Lead on project delivery strategy, with a focus on transparency and project controls.

Job Duties:

• Understands and applies principles, theories, and concepts related to the profession and client's culture.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Impact is generally limited to specific assignments or projects.
• May respond to inquiries and/or provide assistance and guidance to lower-level workers.

Additional Job Duties:

• Leads multiple medium to high complexity projects simultaneously, maintaining deep engagement across all workstreams and resource pools under PMO management supervision.
• Partners with the project business owner and technical lead to determine delivery strategy, provide direction to the project team, and drive stakeholder awareness.
• Provides concise executive-level communication and recommendations to sponsors, steering committees, and senior leadership.
• Manages complex team dynamics, facilitates conflict resolution, conducts negotiations, and achieves organizational objectives through influence without formal authority, with PMO support.
• Actively drives project delivery by facilitating decisions, resolving blockers, identifying risks/issues, and implementing mitigation plans while maintaining momentum across teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Navigates a matrixed resource environment, negotiating resource commitments across competing priorities.
• Manages external dependencies across teams, systems, and timelines to maintain schedule integrity and risk control.
• Identifies and manages cross-project and cross-program dependencies impacting scope, schedule, cost, or outcomes.
• Escalates issues appropriately and facilitates timely decision-making when priorities or requirements conflict.
• Conducts detailed scope analysis to develop and maintain an accurate work breakdown structure throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintains a current and accurate project plan reflecting real resource assignments, progress, and forecasts.
• Maintains reasonable variance between cost forecasts and actuals, with timely explanations for deviations.
• Coordinates vendor procurement, engagement, delivery, and performance as applicable.
• Partners with stakeholders to support organizational readiness, adoption planning, and implementation activities.
• Maintains timesheet compliance across project teams, including reviewing and approving/rejecting weekly submissions.
• Utilizes existing and emerging technologies (collaboration tools, AI, data analysis, and PPM tools) to improve project execution efficiency.
• Operates in a highly regulated, audit-conscious environment, ensuring compliance, documentation, and reporting standards are met.
• Supports PMO continuous improvement initiatives as assigned.
• Supports PMO-sponsored projects or other initiatives as assigned.
• Fosters a project culture aligned with client's core values.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of related experience managing projects, product delivery, or workstream delivery beyond degree requirements (Required)
• Includes:
  • Experience within a formal enterprise PMO with structured phase-gate/tollgate governance and executive accountability
  • Experience managing medium to high complexity projects with cross-functional resource pools
  • Experience working in a matrixed organization with shared services and resource negotiation
  • Experience in highly regulated, audit-conscious environments with formal documentation and reporting requirements
  • Experience using waterfall and hybrid methodologies within structured governance frameworks
  • Experience in ISO/RTO, ISO/RTO stakeholder, or electric utility environments (Preferred)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Project and JIRA or similar project tracking tools (Required)
  • Proficiency in AI prompt design (Preferred)
• Additional Preferred Experience (client ISO Operations & Regulatory Projects)
• Commercial operations or market systems (customer registration, wholesale markets, settlements, retail applications)
• Grid systems (interconnection, planning, forecasting, network modeling, EMS tools)
• External stakeholder platforms (websites, customer portals)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Engineering, IT, or related field (Required)
• OR equivalent combination of education and experience providing similar knowledge

Certifications:

• PMP (Project Management Professional) - Preferred
• Agile / Scrum certifications - Optional
• Organizational Change Management certifications - Optional
• Lean Six Sigma certifications - Optional

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.