Project Manager
Date: March 13, 2026
Location: Oakville, ON – Hybrid
Requisition ID: 20907
Status: 12 to 24 months
Business Unit: Corporate Services
Grade/Band: MP4
Shift Work:
Number of Openings: 2
Annual Pay Range: For standard 35-hour work week
Step 1: $111,072 to Step 10: $158,704
The successful candidate will be placed at the appropriate step within the salary grade/band, based on relevant years of experience and other applicable considerations.
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 is a unionized position that falls within the Corporate Services Business Unit
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:
- Lead end‑to‑end project delivery, including initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.
- Drive project outcomes by effectively influencing stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
- Apply disciplined change management practices to manage scope, schedule, and cost adjustments.
- Develop and manage project budgets, identify variances, and recommend corrective actions.
- Prepare and coordinate the timely launch, execution, and close‑out of approved projects.
- Develops project documentation with accurate cost, resource, and time estimates. Identifies necessary technical and non-technical resources to ensure project objectives can be achieved and supports management in securing the resources.
- Manages project interdependencies within the program/portfolio and ensures efficient resource management and utilization of project resources, in a shared matrix environment.
- Plans, acquires and engages external services through the IESO procurement process to resource and support project delivery.
- Working 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 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 so that major project decisions, such as solution design and scope changes, are approved by project sponsors and senior management; including stakeholders who are impacted by the outcome from the project.
- Works in compliance with all IESO Project Management governance, methodologies, standards, processes and templates.
- Tracks project metrics, and create clear, insight‑driven dashboards for senior leadership..
- Ensures accurate and timely project level reporting, including scope, benefits, 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.
- Records and applies lessons learned from recent projects.
- 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.
In a typical day, you will
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to remove roadblocks, align on deliverables, and support decision‑making across the project lifecycle.
- Monitor project progress, evaluate risks and issues, and implement mitigation or recovery plans to maintain schedule, scope, and quality.
- Engage stakeholders to gather input, clarify expectations, and provide clear, consistent communication throughout the project.
- Review financials, track KPIs, and update dashboards and reports for leadership, ensuring transparency and governance alignment.
- Support procurement, vendor management, and contract compliance while documenting lessons learned, dependencies, and resource needs to drive continuous improvement.
This position has contributed to key projects supporting system modernization, IT transformation, and enterprise‑wide process improvements—offering the successful candidate exposure to critical initiatives shaping Ontario’s electricity future.
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:
Education:
- Requires knowledge encompassing the technical fields; relevant to the areas of computer science, engineering, technical service delivery, and risk management.
- Requires strong knowledge of project management; theory, principles, and practices including the Project Management Institute (PMI) 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 activities
- Requires strong 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 through all phases of the project Management life cycle.
- Solid knowledge and thorough understanding of PMI methodology, standards, phases, techniques and tools.
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, infrastructure/network and IT operations.
- Proven history of delivering projects using Waterfall, Agile and hybrid methodologies.
- Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective.
- 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 small to medium complex enterprise wide projects in a service delivery environment.
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, infrastructure/network and IT and business operations.
- Lead the development and implementation of a 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 from the project sponsor and stakeholders including senior executives, 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, provides input into continuously improving 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/project charter development,
- Project Plan and Schedule development,
- RFP/RFQ/RFI preparations, negotiations, SOW, 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.
- Minimum 6–8 years of project management experience.
Identifying Information
Title: Project Manager
Occupational Code: 682200
Union Affiliation: Society
Grade: MP4
Hours of Work: 35
Job Purpose / Summary Statement (Part 1)
The Project Specialist is responsible for delivering multiple projects in parallel that meet their stated business objectives within agreed timeline and budget. Assigned project will include medium to large scale enterprise wide projects utilizing cross functional teams consisting of both internal IESO staff as well as external service providers/vendors.
Job Purpose / Summary Statement (Part 2)
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 1)
1. Project Management
• Acts as a project manager with overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of projects.
• Demonstrates influencing skills to accomplish project objectives in a matrix reporting environment.
• Utilizes change management discipline on project scope, time and cost changes.
• Manages the project budget to avoid deviations and recommends corrective actions.
• Upon Project approval, plans and prepares for the timely launch of project implementation and close out.
• Develops project documentation with accurate cost, resource, and time estimates. Identifies necessary technical and non-technical resources to ensure project objectives can be achieved and supports management in securing the resources.
• Manages project interdependencies within the program/portfolio and ensures efficient resource management and utilization of project resources, in a shared matrix environment.
• Plans, acquires and engages external services through the IESO procurement process to resource and support project delivery.
• Working 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 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 so that major project decisions, such as solution design and scope changes, are approved by project sponsors and senior management; including stakeholders who are impacted by the outcome from the project.
• Works in compliance with all IESO Project Management governance, methodologies, standards, processes and templates.
• Tracks project metrics, and creates project dashboards for senior management.
• Ensures accurate and timely project level reporting, including scope, benefits, 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.
• Records and applies lessons learned from recent projects.
• 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.
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 2)
Skills:
Communications
• Strong communication skills/experience including facilitation, presentations and written communications at senior management levels including Director, VP and CEO.
• Demonstrates well developed inter-personal skills, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Ability to clearly and concisely articulate project goals and objectives; listens actively and effectively and clarifies information as needed; interprets verbal and non-verbal messages; communicates tactfully and candidly.
• Presents oral and written reports defining plans, problems and resolutions to the appropriate level of management.
• Provides 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.
Financial Management
• Ensures the project is meeting its stated objectives within the approved scope, 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
• Limited supervision over others with an indirect reporting relationship including allocation of work project staff.
• Plans and manages project resources, and provide necessary alerts to senior management.
• Plans, assigns and monitors project work with appropriate instructions and technical direction while assuming primary responsibility for achieving overall project objectives.
• Creates a forum and format for open communications across project teams/stakeholders.
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, 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. Some 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 some 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 strong 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.
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 3)
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 4)
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 5)
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 6)
Job Description - Key Responsibilities (Part 7)
Education
Education Details
Requires knowledge encompassing the technical fields; relevant to the areas of computer science, engineering, technical service delivery, and risk management.
Requires strong knowledge of project management; theory, principles, and practices including the Project Management Institute (PMI) 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 activities
Requires strong 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 through all phases of the project Management life cycle.
• Solid knowledge and thorough understanding of PMI methodology, standards, phases, techniques and tools.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, infrastructure/network and IT operations.
• Proven history of delivering projects using Waterfall, Agile and hybrid methodologies.
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective.
• 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 small to medium complex enterprise wide projects in a service delivery environment.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, infrastructure/network and IT and business operations.
• Lead the development and implementation of a 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 from the project sponsor and stakeholders including senior executives, 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, provides input into continuously improving 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:
(1) business case/project charter development,
(2) Project Plan and Schedule development,
(3) RFP/RFQ/RFI preparations, negotiations, SOW, vendor contract management and administration,
(4) project monitoring and control, and
(5) Preparation of various reports throughout project management life cycle.
• Proven track record of meeting/exceeding customer expectations.
Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years’ experience with 4 -8 years of project management experience
Nature of Supervision Given to Others
Requires exercising periodic or limited supervision over others who do not directly report to you. Supervision may include including allocation of work, providing direction and advice and checking finished product.
Internal Contacts
Contacts involve working with various personnel in the delivery of assigned projects. Interactions include seeking verbal and written input, reports and documents, seeking advice/ guidance and/or direction to ensure successful delivery of projects.
Adherence to established IESO project management practices/procedures and standards with required support including budgeting and other administrative requirements. Requires collaborating with other involved groups to reach a common understanding and agreement on dependent areas of work.
External Contacts
Requires contact with various external service providers, vendors and consultants to support delivery of assigned projects and to develop mutually satisfactory solutions and recommendations on techniques and methods.
Requires participation in presentations in order to explain and advance organizational interests.
Skills
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.
- 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
March 27, 2026. 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.
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The IESO currently has a 3-day in-office work week for applicable roles. Over the course of 2026, the IESO will advance plans to acquire additional office space to accommodate more in-office time. While the timeline for moving to a full 5-day in-office model has not yet been established, we are committed to keeping employees and candidates informed as plans progress and give them as much advance notice as possible to prepare for any changes.
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