Project Manager - NERC

Title: Project Manager - NERC

Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid. 1-2 days a week in the office)

Duration: Fulltime

Project Manager NERC is responsible for managing projects involving support for NERC CIP Audits.

Responsibilities:

• Manage cloud-based security project using Hybrid (waterfall/agile) delivery methodologies, standards and tools.
• Manage projects from business case-to-implementation.
• Support a NERC CIP (via RF aka Reliability First) audit being performed.
• Track CIP evidence responses.
• Groom team for NERC CIP Audit
• Project Management includes: budget management, resource allocation, kick off meetings, project planning, project execution and control, communication, risk analysis, quality assurance, team and vendor management, and project implementation.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, and demos.
• Apply facilitation techniques to ensure effectiveness of the Scrum meetings.
• Provide accurate project estimates and tightly manages project budget, approved funding, forecasts and actuals.
• Lead design workshops, assessments, and troubleshooting sessions.
• Lead end-to-end technical fixes/implementation, including hardware installation, environment setup, production certification, software deployment, integration development, testing and deployment, data management, and vendor technical activities.
• Perform actual vs. planned analysis at the project level and forecast cost of the project.
• Develop project plans/scope/schedule and track progress, milestones, and deliverables.
• Facilitate and attend meetings with various technical and non-technical resources to capture project requirements, identify project milestones, communicate project timelines, track action items, and monitor project status.
• Improve transparency within the team and broader organization.
• Inspire creative solutions that eliminate waste and improve team throughput.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in large-scale IT Project Management environment.
• 5 years of experience in Cloud security and Network segmentation.

• 5 Years with NERC experience
• Must have w working knowledge of LAN, VLAN and Wi-Fi.
• Very good experience with product evaluations.
• Must be able to provide updates to Sr. Level Management must be comfortable presenting at this level.
• Prior experience with vendor interactions.
• Experience with hybrid (waterfall/agile) delivery methodology. Experience in leading hybrid Agile projects, where some work streams follow waterfall principles.
• Ability to manage multiple high visibility projects simultaneously.

• Must have good experience identifying and managing risks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and concisely cross business delivery teams.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to communicate with a broad set of constituencies, both technical and non-technical.
• Cyber security experience is a plus
• Electric utilities experience is a plus.