NERC CIP Project Manager

Talascend is currently seeking a NERC CIP Project Manager for a contract opportunity with our client in Newark, New Jersey.

Overview

In this role, you will be driving the execution and delivery of IT projects for electric utility clients, ensuring the successful delivery of projects while adhering to organizational mission, vision, and values. This project involves preparing and overseeing a NERC CIP audit for the client.

Responsibilities

• Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
• Track CIP evidence responses, and ensure the team is ready for audit.
• Manage technical scope, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions of the project.
• Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.
• Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers, and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project.
• Manage project teams that typically include multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources.
• Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.
• Coordinate with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.
• Ensure that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards.
• Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals.
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.
• Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Technology, Computer Science or related degree with 8+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager.
• 3+ years experience managing security projects.

Requirements

• Previous experience with NERC CIP projects.
• Previous audit experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with senior to executive level management.
• Ability to manage schedule and costs, and ability to provide written status reports and craft materials.
• Solid understanding and previous experience of Project Management and Project Management Office processes and procedures required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Smartsheet or similar project management tool.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships, and external networks.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed.
• Excellent customer-facing skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent decision-making and organizational skills are required.
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other security guidelines where appropriate.

Preferred Requirements

• PMP or equivalent.

Shift

Candidate must be onsite 3 days a week. Locations will vary as requested by client, including Newark and other locations in central NJ.