Senior Project Manager - Engineering Technology Operations

Description

Overview:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Project Manager to join the Operations Transformation team in GRS Engineering and Technology Operations (ETO). You will be dedicated to driving disciplined project management across workstreams within the Technology Modernization initiative, ensuring structured planning, orchestration, and execution of program playbooks. In this high-impact role, you'll partner with the Modernization Technical Program Manager and Modernization Product Owners to deliver complex projects that transform legacy systems, enable resilient and scalable applications, and support business priorities. You'll manage a portfolio of highly technical, visible projects, often spanning multiple functions and geographies, using the full project management lifecycle. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of GRS technology, influence strategy, and help teams adopt modern engineering practices. This is a critical role to drive execution on our multi-year initiative to remediate technical debt, improve run costs, reduce technical and operational risk, and simplify our application portfolio. Success on the program is achieved by establishing the Factory Floor Model and delivering the target outcomes for our "Act Now" applications on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver modernization projects from initiation through close-out, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical strategy, on time delivery and budget management.
• Define project objectives, scope, and resource needs in partnership with stakeholders; build consensus and secure buy-in across the organization.
• Oversee day-to-day execution, monitor progress, and communicate status to stakeholders at all levels.
• Identify and resolve risks, escalate complex issues, and provide clear visibility into trade-offs and recommended approaches.
• Apply continuous improvement and change management practices to drive adoption of new technologies and processes.
• Mentor less experienced staff and contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Manages a range of stakeholders.
• Identifies and gains agreement on project objectives, scope, timing, and resources.
• Plans activities/tasks that will deliver the desired results and oversees day-to-day work and monitoring of progress towards goals.
• Ensures resources are optimally sourced and deployed.
• Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of projects to stakeholders within and beyond the project team.
• Adeptly builds consensus and gains buy-in among stakeholders across the organization.
• Escalates and works to resolve issues that serve as roadblocks and/or place project objectives at risk.
• Identifies and provides visibility into trade-offs between options, while strongly influencing recommended approach.
• In addition to project management, may also perform some of the work defined in the project roles and responsibilities.
• Performs project close-out steps to include identifying lessons learned/best practices to inform the success of future projects.
• Applies continuous improvement methodologies throughout the project management lifecycle.
• Provides mentoring to less experienced staff.

• Strong understanding of modernization, cloud technologies, and engineering best practices.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced knowledge of project management tools.
• Strong ability to adapt and address unique challenges in collaborative and creative ways. Project management certification strongly preferred.
• Displays advanced communication, organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and team building skills as well as advanced presentation, influencing, and relationship management skills.
• Advanced business operations knowledge to include understanding the function's value chain and market conditions strongly preferred.
• Competencies typically acquired through a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience to include 5+ years of project or portfolio management experience, with a track record of leading complex technology initiatives.

• California
• Los Angeles Incorporated
• Los Angeles Unincorporated
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco