PM-Major Projects; Family

Job Summary

*** This position may be filled at the Associate Project Manager, Project Manager, or Senior Project Manager level, based on the candidate's experience and qualifications. ***

The Project Manager oversees large-scale utility construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring safety, quality, schedule, and budget objectives are met. This role manages all phases of project execution—including integration, risk, procurement, and stakeholder engagement—while adhering to NIPSCO standards and industry best practices. The position requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and proficiency in project management tools to deliver complex capital projects in challenging environments.

• Employs project integration processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and effectively transient the project to the customer and ensure project objective accomplishment
• Integrates competence in the product life cycle components to the definition and management of non-product objectives (safety, cost, schedule, human resource, etc.) Expand competence in integration management to align project resources for optimal productivity. Implements product to project scope configuration management. Applies expanding interpersonal skills to lead, manage, and direct the project management team and project stakeholders.
• Employs quality management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and ensures customer satisfaction.
• Employs risk management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and deliver project objectives
• Employs procurement management proficiencies and processes to effectively transfer product and project risk (threats) and exploit, enhance, and share product opportunities to third parties at a fair and equitable price to establish and deliver objective value to both buyer and seller as a result of the project.
• Employs cost management proficiencies to effectively estimate, budget, and control costs within project objective (success) parameters for the project
• Employs schedule management proficiencies to effectively plan, schedule, and deliver the project within the designated project time objective (success) parameters for the project
• Employs the NIPSCO risk management utility to the development and management of projects, human resources, and stakeholders
• Applies and integrates proficiency in NIPSCO human resource processes and skills to optimize coordination of the project management team performance and ensure optimum coordination is achieved given existing human resource policies and procedures. Uses effective human resource tools and techniques to motivate and drive contractor performance
• Effectively engages project stakeholders; employs effective strategies in dealing with negative stakeholders and integrate the project objectives with the composite of individual project stakeholder requirements and expectations.
• Applies proficiency in effective communication management to manage and control project stakeholders
• Applies proficiency in project governance and utilize effective communication and objective management to ensure that the project's safety and environmental objectives are realized.
• The Project Manager will manage the project in accordance with industry best practices, the NIPSCO Organizational Process Assets, the Project Management Guidelines and Standards

• Bachelor's Degree in Technical plus 6 years technical experience
• 7-9 years 9 years project/architectural-engineering/technical experience
• 1-3 years Project Manager plus 2 years' experience as a PM
• Expand the project management knowledge base in project management methodology, processes, tools, techniques, and software; increasing personal maturity in project management (Level 3 maturity)
• Expanded comprehension in project management guidelines, standard, processes, and job aids
• Expanded proficiency in project management information systems (PMIS) utilization and integration; scheduling software, risk management software, cost management software, and performance metrics (and dashboards) and tool integration of…