Project Manager

**Project Manager**:
**Date**:Oct 9, 2024

**Location**: CA

**Company**:Independent Electricity System Operator

**INDEPENDENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR (IESO)**

**Requisition ID**:

- 20038**Location**:

- Mississauga, ON - Hybrid**Status**:

- Temporary, up to 12 months**Business Unit**:

- Corporate and Market Services**Why join us?**

You’ve got great skills. And you want to use them in an organization where you know what you do every day matters. We get that.
We also know that ensuring Ontarians have access to affordable and reliable power doesn’t happen by accident. So we give you the tools, flexibility and support you need to achieve your goals, and development opportunities to help you grow. You’ll thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment that values your unique skills and experiences - and recognizes that when you do better, we become even better too.

**Who we are**

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the centre of the province’s power system, ensuring Ontarians have access to reliable and cost-effective electricity when and where they need it. We operate the province’s electricity grid 24/7, design, run and oversee the wholesale electricity markets, and plan and prepare to meet Ontario’s electricity needs - now and into the future.

**The Opportunity**

Reporting to the Supervisor, Project Manager, the Project Specialist is responsible for delivering multiple projects in parallel that meet their stated business objectives within agreed timeline and budget. Further, the incumbent will be assigned projects than include medium to large scale enterprise wide projects utilizing cross functional teams consisting of both internal IESO staff as well as external service providers and/or vendors.

**What you will be doing**
- Acts as a project manager with overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of projects.
- Demonstrates influencing skills to accomplish project objectives in a matrix reporting environment.
- Utilizes change management discipline on project scope, time and cost changes.
- Manages the project budget to avoid deviations and recommends corrective actions.
- Upon Project approval, plans and prepares for the timely launch of project implementation and close out.
- Develops project documentation with accurate cost, resource, and time estimates.
- Identifies necessary technical and non-technical resources to ensure project objectives can be achieved and supports management in securing the resources.
- Manages project interdependencies within the program/portfolio and ensures efficient resource management and utilization of project resources, in a shared matrix environment.
- Plans, acquires and engages external services through the IESO procurement process to resource and support project delivery.
- Working with the contract managers and procurement in the development of RFPs, evaluation of vendor submissions, and the establishment of contracts to ensure on-time project delivery. This includes ensuring vendor resources are managed to statement of work and project objectives.
- Ensures effective and efficient project handover to responsible areas adhering to the appropriate processes and artefacts.
- Monitors and ensures effective and efficient use of the IESO control mechanisms so that major project decisions, such as solution design and scope changes, are approved by project sponsors and senior management; including stakeholders who are impacted by the outcome from the project.
- Works in compliance with all IESO Project Management governance, methodologies, standards, processes and templates.
- Tracks project metrics, and creates project dashboards for senior management.
- Ensures accurate and timely project level reporting, including scope, benefits, time, budget and risk.
- Promotes a project management best practice culture at all levels, ensuring a communication plan is developed and executed considering all project stakeholders and their needs.
- Engages with IESO’s QA function to ensure that an effective QA (Quality Assurance) plan is in place for all projects.
- Records and applies lessons learned from recent projects.
- Keeps current with latest trends in project management and maintains knowledge of current best practices in project management.
- Performs other duties (special assignments) as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor.

**What you need to succeed**
- Requires knowledge encompassing the technical fields; relevant to the areas of computer science, engineering, technical service delivery, and risk management.
- Requires strong knowledge of project management; theory, principles, and practices including the Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices.
- Requires knowledge of Business and IT business methods, procedures and organization structures in order to be aware of limitations that can be imposed and to recognize factors influencin