Date: November 21, 2025

Location: Mississauga, ON – Hybrid/On-site

Requisition ID: 20711

Status: Regular

Business Unit: Corporate Services

Why join us? The IESO is committed to ensuring Ontario’s electricity system meets the province’s needs today and into the future. We are charged with purpose , delivering reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity for homes, businesses, and communities across the province. We are energized to grow , embracing opportunities to shape the future of a dynamic and evolving energy sector while advancing our careers. We are powered by teamwork , supported by diverse and passionate colleagues who foster respect, celebrate successes, and thrive on shared achievements. At the IESO, it’s not just what we do—it’s who we are!

Who We Are Our central role includes managing the provincial power grid in real-time, overseeing and evolving Ontario’s electricity market, engaging with government, municipalities and Indigenous communities, and planning for Ontario’s future electricity needs. Our employees play a key role in driving grid innovation, protecting the system from threats, advancing the province’s energy conservation programs, and forecasting and procuring the electricity resources we’ll need in the decades to come.

This role is a unionized position within the Corporate Services Business Unit.

What Makes This Role Exciting The energy sector is rapidly evolving, offering exciting new opportunities for those who want to make a difference.

This role involves managing project design and implementation, coordinating cross-functional teams and external stakeholders, ensuring projects meet scope, timeline, and budget objectives, and supporting the development of new participation models to enhance grid reliability and efficiency.

What You’ll Do In this role, you’ll make a meaningful impact by contributing to the IESO team and supporting the electricity needs of the province through:

Project Management

• Acts as a project manager to deliver strategic and complex projects. Demonstrates leadership and influencing skills to accomplish project objectives in a matrix reporting environment.
• Enforces change management discipline on project scope, time and cost changes.
• Manages the project budget to avoid deviations and recommends corrective actions.
• Once the business case is approved, plans and prepares timely launch of project implementation.
• Develops project plan/charter with accurate cost, resource, and time estimates. Negotiates and secures approval of necessary project resources.
• Manages project interdependencies within the program and ensures efficient utilization of project resources.
• Plans, acquires and engages external services through the IESO procurement process to resource and support project delivery.
• Works with the contract managers and procurement in the development of RFPs, evaluation of vendor submissions, and the establishment of contracts to ensure on-time project delivery. Ensures vendor resources are managed to the statement of work and project objectives.
• Ensures effective and efficient project handover to responsible areas adhering to the appropriate processes and artefacts.
• Monitors and ensures effective and efficient use of the IESO control mechanisms such that major project decisions, such as solution design and scope changes, are approved by project sponsors and senior management.
• Works in compliance with all IESO Project Management methodologies, standards and processes. Tracks project metrics and create project dashboards for senior management.
• Ensures accurate and timely project level reporting, including scope, time, budget and risk.
• Promotes a project management best practice culture at all levels, ensuring a communication plan is developed and executed considering all project stakeholders and their needs.
• Engages with IESO’s QA function to ensure that an effective QA (Quality Assurance) plan is in place for all projects and is being executed properly.
• Keeps current with latest trends in project management and maintains knowledge of current best practices in project management.
• Performs other duties (special assignments) as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Financial Management

• Ensures the project is meeting its stated objectives within the approved budget and timelines.
• Delivers and manages demanding but viable project budgets and schedules including forecasting, monitoring and adherence to corporate business policies.
• Estimates costs to complete deliverables, activities and phases of the project.

Resource Management

• Moderate levels of limited supervision over others including allocation of work project staff .
• Plans, assign and monitor project work with appropriate instructions and technical directions while assuming primary responsibility for achieving overall project objectives.
• Creates a forum and format for open communications across project teams/stakeholders

In a typical day, you will oversees strategic projects by coordinating resources, managing budgets, and ensuring adherence to timelines and scope. You will also engage stakeholders, monitor risks, and provide clear reporting to senior leadership while fostering best practices in project and financial management.

Right now this position is a part of Enabling Resources Project, which plays a critical role in advancing our energy transition strategy. This initiative focuses on storage solutions and hybrid systems, as well as Distributed Energy Resource (DER) integration. The goal is to create a more flexible and resilient grid by enabling resources that support renewable energy adoption and optimize energy storage.

One exciting aspect of this project is the development of hybrid storage platforms that combine battery technology with other energy resources to improve efficiency and reliability. This work directly impacts how we integrate DERs—such as solar and wind—into the grid, ensuring stability while meeting sustainability targets.

Joining this effort means contributing to a project that is shaping the future of energy infrastructure and driving innovation in clean energy solutions.

Role Requirements Our team consists of experts from diverse backgrounds, each bringing their unique perspectives and skills.

To Succeed In This Role, You’ll Need Communication

• Strong communication skills/experience including facilitation, presentations and written communications to senior management levels including Director/VP/CEO and IESO Board of Directors.
• Demonstrates superior inter-personal skills, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Conveys goals and objectives clearly and in a compelling manner; listens actively and effectively and clarifies information as needed; interprets verbal and non-verbal messages; communicates tactfully and candidly.
• Provides coaching and guidance to the team members about every aspect of the project so that the team members can understand their tasks fully and act on them efficiently. Stakeholders
• Understands who the client is, what are the clients’ needs/expectations and provides realistic responses and actively monitors the client from planning to closeout.
• Reviews plans and results as required with the steering committees, senior executive, IESO Board members and external customers ensuring appropriate stakeholder involvement throughout the project for improving delivery.
• Manages stakeholder understanding, engagement and active participation specific to project scope, risk, delivery and changes.

Decision Making

• Regularly makes decisions and takes action on matters directly affecting the project objectives. Minimal escalations to supervisor required.
• Supports project sponsors in understanding and creating opportunities for making timely choices/decisions.
• Delegates tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.Influencing and Leading
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing demands with minimal supervision.
• Challenges requirements as necessary in order to ensure that the project steering committee and project sponsor is aware of resulting cost benefit outcomes, human resources implications and impact on project schedule.
• Demonstrates superior collaboration skills and techniques which lead to conflict resolution, creating lasting productive partnerships.
• Fosters and manages productive relationships with executive level sponsors.
• Builds effective teams with technical and non-technical staff.

Education

• Requires knowledge encompassing the technical fields; relevant to the areas of computer science, engineering, technical service delivery, risk management, and customer service.
• Requires strong knowledge of project management; theory, principles, and practices including the Project Management Institute best practices.
• Requires knowledge of Business and IT business methods, procedures and organization structures in order to be aware of limitations that can be imposed and to recognize factors influencing the effective implementation of methodologies, risk and project management related activities.
• Requires excellent facilitation and communications (written and oral) skills to prepare accurate, concise, and clear correspondence, procedures, guidelines, and reports.

This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired, either through the successful completion of 4 years of university education in an appropriate discipline or by having the equivalent education.

PMP certification is required.

Experience

• Proven track record of leading projects /programs through all phases of the project Management life cycle.
• Solid knowledge and thorough understanding of project Management Institute (PMI) methodology, standards, phases, techniques and tools.
• Proven history of delivering projects using both Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective.
• Strong focus on business development projects that require a high degree of persuasive vision.
• Set realistic and practical goals for the project. Moreover, he/she should also develop appropriate strategies for achieving these goals.
• Strong and tested project management skills stemming from both failed and successful project delivery.
• Demonstrated hands on experience leading and delivering large complex enterprise wide projects in a complex service delivery environment.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, infrastructure/network and IT and business operations.
• Leads the development and implementation of a broad coordinated set of plans and programs to meet the goals and priorities of the approved ranked/prioritized project.
• Lead the definition of project objectives, scope, critical success factors, benefits and constraints to align expectations, sponsors and project participants.
• Develop, present, justify and gain approval for business cases from the project sponsor and stakeholders including senior executives and the Board of the IESO and its committees, as required. Plan, execute and monitor any activities necessary to recover slippage in timelines, budget or the achievement of business objectives.
• Lead and develop and/or oversee key project deliverables, action log, issue/risk mitigation activities.
• Identify and/or facilitate project risks and contingency requirements.
• Working with others, continuously improves project management toolkits and methodologies
• Requires proficiency in computer tools application skills in managing projects; such as MS Project, EXCEL, Access, Visio, SharePoint and Word.
• Requires proven track record of working in a team environment where different opinions and perspectives have to be managed, negotiated and resolved.
• Requires a proven track record of taking ownership and getting the assigned tasks/projects done.
• Specific expertise and experience are required in the areas of:
• business case development,
• Project Plan and Schedule development,
• RFP/RFQ/RFI preparations, negotiations, vendor contract management and administration,
• project monitoring and control, and
• Preparation of various reports throughout project management life cycle.
• Proven track record of meeting/exceeding customer expectations.

How We Support You From a comprehensive total rewards program to dynamic learning and development opportunities—including job rotations to broaden your expertise—we empower you to define and shape your own success. When you join the IESO, here’s what you can expect:

• Best-in-class benefits and long-term support in the form of a defined benefit pension plan.
• A commitment to flexibility as we currently support a hybrid model where applicable, that supports a blend of remote and in-office work based on business needs. Participating employees typically work in-office a minimum of four days and work remotely up to six days over a two-week period with a goal of maximizing in-office time through the use of established team days.
• Work in a dynamic and evolving sector that offers exciting opportunities and the chance to explore new career paths.
• Leadership that values meaningful discussions, welcomes feedback, and prioritizes career development.
• A strong, inclusive culture and a collaborative team environment with a shared passion for impactful work.
• Compensation packages that are regularly reviewed to remain competitive and to best accommodate the diverse needs of our employees.

Deadline December 5, 2025. For future reference, please save a copy of the job posting as it will no longer be available once the posting closes.

Thank you for your interest in a career at the IESO. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note that the successful candidate must be legally eligible to work in Canada and will be subject to applicable background checks.

IESO will not conduct interviews or offer positions via online, text, chat or social media platforms. We will not gather personal information directly from candidates or potential candidates. Selected candidates will work with our Talent Acquisition team to ensure their application is processed.

We believe in opportunities for everyone. At the IESO, we know that achieving great results depends on embracing diversity by attracting, developing, and retaining people from a wide variety of backgrounds. We do this by ensuring our recruitment and advancement policies are fair and equitable, and by creating an accessible and inclusive environment—one that values every team member’s unique skills and experiences and ensures they have the support they need to achieve their potential. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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