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Job Description
RWE Clean Energy, LLC
Functional area: IT / Digital
Remuneration: Exempt
RWE Clean Energy is a quickly-growing Renewable Energy owner/operator in North America. Our wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets combine to form a portfolio of 8GW. With a deep understanding of operations and engineering, the company is accelerating the use of self-developed tools, and has need of professional product owners.
The Digital Product Owner team will own and manage multiple digital products on behalf of the business. They'll be accountable to the Operations department, and work consistently with the IT/OT department in order to maintain and further develop current products, along with creating new products. The team will work with developers, SCRUM masters, and tech leads using a DevOps methodology.
Responsibilities:
- Work within a SCRUM team to manage user stories - write, prioritize, clarify, review, and close them, and communicate new features and bug fixes to users
- Define user-level access permissions and manage approvals day-to-day for user access
- Gather feedback from user groups (Field Operations, Control Center, Reliability Engineering, etc) on existing features and their further needs to develop new user stories
- Meet with technical teams (Business Applications, OT, SCADA, etc) to understand the capability of the underlying systems and develop solutions to enchance the product landscape
- Roll out new products, and train users both in office and in the field in the use of those products
- Develop and track Product KPIs and evaluate success of each product
- Manage the budgets for development resources working on improvements to the products
- Analyze the application landscape and identify strategic needs and gaps that can be supported and filled by product enhancements, feature development, and/or new products
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the manager
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, IT, or Business required
2+ years of professional experience
Experience in Renewable Energy and Industrial Controls strongly preferred
Experience in Software Project Management or Software Development preferred
Training in SCRUM preferred
Familiarity with MS Azure and Azure DevOps preferred
Proven project management, presentation, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Strong analytical abilities and able to quickly understand, clarify, and document new concepts
Highly motivated and able to operate and grow independently while communicating with others as needed
This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWECE office and field locations
Most be able to sit, walk, or stand for long durations of time
Pay range: The annual base salary range for this position in New York is $93,000 - $140,000. The listed salary range represents our good faith estimate for this position and represents the range for new hire salaries across all U.S locations. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. RWE considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's education & work experience, training & certifications, and key skills as well as market and business considerations at the time of the offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.
RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we're making all that energy green. This decade alone we're investing 50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 - ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.
Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 - with some of the world's largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We're also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertise to our supply and trading operations, brokering renewable electricity, green gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances from one of our advanced energy trading floors.
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Any questions? Contact in Recruiting:Jason Steiner,, Contact in thespecialist department: Rogers Whittle,
This position is open. This job was posted on Sun Apr 21 2024 and expires on Thu Jun 20 2024.
Minimum $93K /yr
$117K /yr Average
Maximum $140K /yr
Tasks
- Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
- Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.
- Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
- Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
- Assess current or future customer needs and priorities by communicating directly with customers, conducting surveys, or other methods.
- Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans.
- Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects.
- Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel.
- Develop implementation plans that include analyses such as cost-benefit or return on investment (ROI).
- Identify need for initial or supplemental project resources.
- Develop or update project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.
- Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.
- Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Identify, review, or select vendors or consultants to meet project needs.
- Develop and manage annual budgets for information technology projects.
- Establish and execute a project communication plan.
- Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.
- Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback.
- Coordinate recruitment or selection of project personnel.
- Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.
- Negotiate with project stakeholders or suppliers to obtain resources or materials.
Skills
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Management of Material Resources - Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Knowledge
- Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Clerical - Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Economics and Accounting - Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Telecommunications - Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
- Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401K Plan
- Tuition Assistance
- Health Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Vacation & Paid Time Off
- Dental Insurance
