The Lansing Board of Water & Light has an opening for a Project Manager, Strategic Planning, located in Lansing, MI.
Job Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary Range: $101,876 - $125,358
Position Summary:
The Project Manager for Strategic Planning is responsible for overseeing and executing projects and initiatives to achieve departmental goals. The role’s main objective is to proactively guide initiatives through the appropriate project life cycles, from business case development through owner acceptance, while ensuring seamless coordination and planning between internal and external stakeholders. This role involves managing new technology or innovative initiatives, contract management, coordination across multiple organizational units, and communication at all levels of the organization. The Project Manager will work closely with business and technology leaders to ensure projects are effectively prioritized, budgeted, and resourced adequately.
Essential Functions:
- Business Analysis and Evaluation:
- Lead business case development to define the expected value from projects.
- Engage with stakeholders to refine scope, organization impact, and strategic alignment.
- Ensure thorough research into new concepts, technologies, and best practices. Analyze data to inform decision-making and strategy development.
- Execution:
- Develop and manage scope, schedule, and budgets for assigned projects
- Support procurement efforts by planning and coordinating early.
- Facilitate RFP development, develop scope and specifications, and coordinate bidding activities.
- Administer and manage outside resource contracts in adherence to BWL purchasing policy.
- Facilitate project risk planning and implement risk mitigation plans to ensure project objectives are met.
- Coordinate and document decisions from project design reviews
- Analyze, evaluate, and overcome project risks. Communicate risk mitigation efforts to management and stakeholders using a risk register or similar tools.
- Understand and utilize O&M, grants, tax credits, and capital budgeting processes to execute projects.
- Organizational Coordination:
- Collaborate with various departments and external partners to ensure the execution of projects. This includes stakeholder engagement and coordinating with other projects across the organization.
- Efficiently transition projects to other project managers or business owners when applicable.
- Effectively report project progress throughout their life cycles to appropriate stakeholders.
- Utilize Organizational Change Management (OCM) and/or Management of Change principles to communicate changes to the organization.
- Ensure project impacts to the organization have training, procedures, and process flows
- General:
- Project management may include but is not limited to the following items:
- Economic evaluations, feasibility studies, gap analysis, pilot projects, coordination of real estate acquisitions, permitting, interconnection agreements, regulatory approvals, high-level schedule and budget, risk matrix, and RFP/RFQ development to acquire resources.
- Follow and integrate with the Capital Project Management System process.
- Attending various steering committee and PMO meetings to support projects.
- Collaborate with PMO groups in the BWL to maintain and enhance common project management practices and methodologies.
- Expected to comply with all BWL policies and work rules.
- Predictable and reliable attendance.
- Other duties as assigned
Why Should You Apply?
- Competitive salary, employee development, and opportunity for professional growth.
- Robust time off benefits including vacation, free choice, sick leave, and paid holidays.
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, prescription, dental, life insurance, long-term disability, and employee assistance program.
- Retirement programs including 401a (100% company paid up to 13% of base salary), 457 match up to $2,500 per year, retiree medical.
- Voluntary benefits including supplemental and dependent life insurance, vision, flexible spending, AFLAC options, LifeLock anti-theft, long term care, tuition reimbursement, HOPE loan.
About BWL:
The Board of Water & Light serves Lansing, Michigan, and surrounding areas with electricity, water, and steam. Lansing's city charter vests the BWL with full and exclusive management of water, steam, and electric services for or the city. The American Public Power Association has honored the Lansing Board of Water & Light as one of the country's best publicly owned utilities.
The Location:
Lansing, MI provides the opportunity to enjoy all seasons of fun and beauty. With the Grand River open for kayaking, lush golf courses, 17+ miles of trails for biking/hiking/running, Potter Park Zoo, and the sports, the arts and fine foods that comes from being near a major University, Michigan State University, there is a spot for everyone. The area is a short drive from Lake Michigan’s shoreline where there is views of natural beauty, boating, fishing, and windsurfing.
