NERC CIP Project Manager - Remote (Newark, NJ) This is remote but candidate must be willing to travel once a month and/or as needed.

Summary: The NERC CIP Project Manager role is a remote position based in Newark, NJ, requiring monthly travel. The manager will oversee project teams, ensuring compliance with contracts and readiness for audits while managing technical scope, cost, and schedule. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential for engaging multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. The position demands extensive experience in IT project management, particularly in security projects related to NERC CIP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
• Track CIP evidence responses, and ensure the team is ready for audit.
• Manage technical scope, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions of the project.
• Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.
• Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers, and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project.
• Manage project teams that typically include multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources.
• Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.
• Ensure that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards.
• Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals.
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.
• Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables.

Key Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology, Computer Science or related degree with 8+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 3+ years experience managing security projects.
• Previous experience with NERC CIP projects.
• Previous audit experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with senior to executive level management.
• Ability to manage schedule and costs, and ability to provide written status reports and craft materials.
• Solid understanding and previous experience of Project Management and Project Management Office processes and procedures required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Smartsheet or similar project management tool.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships, and external networks.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed.
• Excellent customer-facing skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent decision-making and organizational skills are required.
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other security guidelines where appropriate.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT