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Summary
Information Technology Project Manager IV
In this role, you lead high-impact technology projects that help keep APS systems reliable, innovative, and ready for the future. By guiding complex, cross-functional initiatives from start to finish, you ensure critical solutions are delivered on time and within budget-supporting the safe, efficient delivery of power to Arizona communities. Your leadership helps reduce risk, enable innovation, and improve how APS serves its customers every day.
What Your Day Would Be Like:

• Lead large, complex IT projects from planning through execution, ensuring clear direction, alignment, and results
• Partner with cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to drive progress and solve challenges
• Develop and maintain execution plans that balance scope, schedule, cost, and risk
• Oversee project teams (including other Project Managers) to deliver high-quality outcomes
• Manage multi-year or fast-paced initiatives that involve innovative or high-risk technologies
• Communicate updates, risks, and outcomes to leadership and key partners

Who We're Looking For:

• Proven experience managing large, complex IT projects with significant scope, budget, or risk
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to manage competing priorities, compressed timelines, and evolving project demands
• Skilled in coordinating with vendors and overseeing contractual deliverables
• Strategic thinker who can develop comprehensive execution plans and drive results
• Clear communicator who builds trust and alignment across teams

Minimum Requirements
Information Technology Project Manager IV

• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology or related field
• PLUS twelve (12) years of prior relevant experience managing large scale IT projects in the area of software applications, IT infrastructure or cybersecurity or equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.
• Working project management knowledge and experience developing or updating project plans for information technology projects (including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.

Preferred Special Skills, Knowledge or Qualifications:

• Experience delivering business results through IT Deployment, excellent communication, negotiation and leadership skills
• Experience managing large, complex, high impact projects.
• Extensive understanding of project management processes, principles and methodologies
• Ability to build strong Client/Customer relationships
• Strong critical thinking and creativity skills along with the ability to exercise sound judgment by making decisions based on accurate and timely analyses
• Ability understand needs and values of stakeholders and team members and apply that understanding to motivate behaviors and results
• Experience in managing multi-discipline teams and technical functions
• Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills.

Major Accountabilities
1) Under limited supervision, lead multiple and diverse departments and disciplines to ensure development of highly complex scale project plans, effective resource planning, project estimates, project organization and roles and responsibilities
2) Present comprehensive project plans to project sponsors and management. Obtains all necessary stakeholder support and sponsor and executive approvals.
3) Manage project dependencies, critical path, and monitor and update risk mitigation and contingency plans as necessary
4) Develops project plan documentation, provides status reports, negotiates change orders and adjusts schedules as needed.
5) Develop and conduct formal presentations for assigned projects as required
6) Manage activities within the project team or impacted area/s to ensure project objectives, budget, quality standards and scheduling requirements are met.
7) Ensures project deliverables and overall results meet or exceed sponsor and stakeholder expectations
8) Regularly coaches, mentors, motivates and supervises project team members and contractors and provide performance assessment input as needed, coordinate vendor resources, identify and resolve issues and conflicts within project team
9) Participates in project evaluation to ensure project objectives were met
10) Acts as a mentor to less experienced Project managers
Export Compliance / EEO Statement
This position may require access to and/or use of information subject to control under the Department of Energy's Part 810 Regulations (10 CFR Part 810), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR Parts 730 through 774), or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter M Part 120) (collectively, 'U.S. Export Control Laws'). Therefore, some positions may require applicants to be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S. Citizen, a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), a Political Asylee, or a Refugee under the U.S. Export Control Laws. All applicants will be required to confirm their U.S. person or non-US person status. All information collected in this regard will only be used to ensure compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws, and will be used in full compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of national origin and other factors. For positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Stations (PVNGS) all openings will require applicants to be a U.S. person.
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Home based:Home based employees primarily work from their home offices and come into an APS facility on an as-needed basis.

• Employees are expected to reside in Arizona (or New Mexico for Four Corners-based employees).
• Working from a home office requires adequate technology and an appropriate ergonomic set up.
• Role types are subject to change based on business need.