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City of Austin - JOB DESCRIPTION

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Advanced Technology Program Manager
FLSA: Standard/Exempt EEO Category: (20) Professionals
Class Code: 17997 Salary Grade: ZW2
Approved: Last Revised: July 12, 2018

Purpose:
 

Under general direction, manage and technically lead specific Smart Grid, Grid Modernization, and other Austin Energy advanced program(s).

 
Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:
  Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
  1. Leads planning activities to develop short- and long-term strategic plans, roadmaps, and objectives for advanced technologies and programs.
  2. Creates and manages operational budgets for short and long term technology projects and contracts.
  3. Leads cross functional teams to achieve technology initiatives.
  4. Manages existing and future contracts with vendors.
  5. Leads market research activities to identify market trends in technologies and programs.
  6. Produces periodic metrics to measure and improve: systems, projects, vendors, and service provider performance.
  7. Manages assigned matrix resources.
  8. Leverages functionality to identify operational efficiencies to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs.
  9. Produces business cases, including cost versus benefit analysis and Request for Proposal (RFP’s) to support related technologies and initiatives and programs.
  10. Facilitates and leads periodic executive round table and steering committees on related technologies and programs.
  11. Facilitates internal communication, education, and training to staff, and internal and external stakeholders on technologies and programs.
Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:
 

May be responsible for the full range of supervisory activities including selection, training, evaluation, counseling, and recommendation for dismissal.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
  • Knowledge of electric utility operations: generation, transmission, distribution, or other related fields
  • Knowledge of advanced analytical, mathematical, or programming techniques
  • Knowledge of fiscal planning and budget preparation
  • Knowledge of applicable processes, engineering principles, data analysis, and application design
  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements and applicable federal, state, and local laws and ordinances
  • Skill in leading and directing personnel in a project and program capacity
  • Skill in determining needs and gathering, analyzing and presenting data to provide accurate information for management's use
  • Skill in oral and written business and technical communication including preparation of written reports
  • Skill in handling and prioritizing multiple tasks and planning and organizing a program
  • Skill in using computers and related software applications
  • Skill in data analysis and problem solving
  • Skill in negotiations, program monitoring, and conflict resolution
  • Skill in conducting presentations on behalf of a public entity
  • Skill in projecting needs for equipment and personnel and formulating operating budgets
  • Ability to perform complex analysis, calculations, and problem solving
  • Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities
  • Ability to direct the timely production of project proposals and agreements
  • Ability to prepare and evaluate business cases
Minimum Qualifications:
 

Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Business or Engineering related to the job, plus five (5) years of experience in a related field, two (2) years of which were in a program or project management capacity.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
 
  • None

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty required of the position given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of management to assign, direct and control the work of employees under supervision. The listing of duties and responsibilities shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.