Project Excellence Manager

About Powin:

Powin Energy is a leading producer of utility scale modular battery energy storage system (complete with a patented, advanced, cloud-based monitoring/control system). That means we build power plants out of batteries that put coal and gas generators out of business and enable sustainable viability for renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

Powin is, and will continue to be, one of a handful of companies that will provide the equipment necessary to make this happen. Powin has distinct competitive advantages: cost-effectiveness; reliability; scalability; deploy-ability; and operational sophistication. Every day we work to ensure that we maintain these competitive advantages and our position as a global leader in providing turnkey, battery energy storage solutions for utility-scale, commercial and industrial, and microgrid applications.

Summary:

The Project Excellence Manager is responsible for establishing excellence in pre-sales through commissioning of our systems – identifying and implementing strategies to enhance and drive value to our customers and internal employees. They will identify and implement strategies to execute internal initiatives and customer engagements more effectively and with a higher level of consistency – essentially optimizing the way we show up. This position leads process improvement and project management improvement efforts and serves as a facilitator, internal consultant, mentor, and champion of a sustainable continuous improvement culture.

Job Details:

• Analyzes trends and recommends Project Success enhancements to address systemic issues, lessons learned and industry developments
• Serves as a strategic business partner and voice for Project Success on cross-functional organizational improvement efforts
• Contributes to the standardization of the project management best practices and seek opportunities to harmonize processes and systems across projects and other cross-functional groups
• Identifies opportunities to integrate tools and resources that enable consistency and quality in building organizational capability to achieve goals and objectives.
• Leads the design, development and implementation of initiatives focused on the improvement and advancement of project execution across the organization
• Leads without authority, managing cross-functional resources to agreed commitments and holding teams accountable to critical path execution of initiatives
• Implements development and/or deployment of established systems and procedures and utilizes best practices to introduce further improvements to existing and new business processes.
• Facilitates and collects lessons learned in projects for continuous improvement of project management standards
• Ensure communication and change management activities during deployment of new standards, processes or protocols to Project Success teams and other affected business units
• Develops and implements strategies to maximize employee adoption of new or existing processes, activities, templates, and other process improvement initiatives
• Develops content and presentations for specific user groups to support delivery of training and onboarding
• Coaches and mentors Project Success team members and other stakeholders on Powin’s project management processes, procedures, and templates Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Project Management certification or proven knowledge of Project Management process, methods, and tools
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills required
• Experience with Procore and/or construction industry is preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to influence senior level management and cross-functional stakeholders
• Effective communicator, listener, and presenter, with the ability to work with various levels of the organization
• Ability to align communications with the end user in focus; ability to deliver structured and simple messages through visual presentations
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and listening) with specific ability to develop and sell business cases and to express detailed technical threats and vulnerabilities into business risk
• Detailed oriented and highly organized; ability to multi-task several projects at once
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively
• This position is flexible with onsite (PDX/Tualatin), hybrid and/or remote

Powin is not accepting resumes from unsolicited headhunters or agencies at this time.

EEO STATEMENT: The Company is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices and laws.  The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants without unlawful regard to race, color, age, gender, gender identification or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, religion or creed, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, protected veteran status, disability (mental or physical), or any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local law. 

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