Product Owner

The Opportunity:
**Company, Department**: Nova Scotia Power, Asset Management

**Location**:Halifax, Nova Scotia

**Type of Employment**: Regular, Full-Time

**Closing Date**:September 24, 2025

We are looking for a **Product Owner - WAM** to join our team and help evolve Nova Scotia Power’s Work and Asset Management (WAM) solution. The WAM solution continues to transform how NS Power delivers services to its customers by enabling new capabilities for planning and scheduling work, mobile tools for field technicians, and enhanced systems and processes that support service delivery.

As a member of the WAM Innovation team, you will join a dynamic group of professionals leading cross-divisional and enterprise-wide business transformation through an agile continuous improvement program.

Key elements of this role include:

- Take ownership of the end-to-end experience for Regional Operations employees using WAM solutions, with a focus on Scheduling work groups and boundary systems.
- Represent end users—including external contractors—in all aspects of system and process design.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops and interviews to elicit, document, and validate business requirements and processes.
- Translate business needs into system configurations and design specifications in collaboration with end-users, SMEs, and technical teams.
- Prioritize tasks to maximize business value and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
- Identify business opportunities, assess impacts, and support troubleshooting efforts.
- Recommend and implement business process optimization opportunities leveraging WAM technology.
- Conduct business impact analyses for changes to WAM and related processes.
- Support development and delivery of training materials and job aids for end users.
- Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test scenario and script development.
- Investigate and resolve technical incidents or problems.
- Collaborate with other product owners and project teams to ensure sustainable and effective process development.
- Organize meetings, schedule resources, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Present results and updates to sponsors and stakeholders.

You will work with mínimal supervision and be responsible for your personal safety and that of your co-workers by observing all Occupational Health and Safety Rules and Regulations. You will also be accountable for environmental performance as it relates to environmental management system processes and initiatives.

These skills will make you successful:
You recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and ideally bring the experience listed below:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent work experience considered.
- 3-5 years of experience in Energy Delivery processes at an electric utility.
- Strong understanding of utility field operations and standard business analysis methodologies.
- Experience supporting Energy Delivery Operations business units.
- Demonstrated project management skills, including planning, tracking, and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.
- Proficiency in Office automation tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Maximo, CIS, Salesforce/Field Service, Agile tools, and collaboration software.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collect, evaluate, and synthesize data from multiple sources.
- Skilled in communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences, including negotiation and influencing.
- Ability to build strong relationships and facilitate working groups.
- Experience with Organizational Change Management and user training.
- Excellent interpersonal, consensus-building, and team collaboration skills.

We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we’ve listed above, please consider applying.

Learn more about our culture and values:
The perks of joining our team? We offer:

- **Flexibility**:One flexible remote workday.
- ** Health & Wellbeing**: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
- ** Grow Your Career**: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
- ** Community Engagement & Care**: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching & volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.
- ** Competitive Compensation**: A comprehensive benefits plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

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