Project Manager

This position leads training strategy, coordination, and readiness activities for the GAS Enterprise Asset Management (MATRiX) program.

As part of the Organizational Readiness workstream, the Project Manager serves as the Training Lead, reports to the Organizational Readiness Lead, and has a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Southern Company Gas Technical Training Manager.

The role partners with MATRiX project teams, subject matter experts, and business stakeholders to ensure training deliverables are developed, reviewed, and executed effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Lead training coordination for the MATRiX initiative, including training needs, activities, deliverables, and readiness requirements across project workstreams and impacted business areas.
• Partner with the Southern Company Gas Technical Training Manager and MATRiX Organizational Readiness Manager to align training strategy, readiness milestones, communication plans, and implementation timelines.
• Coordinate with program workstreams, subject matter experts, instructional designers, business stakeholders, vendors, and implementation partners to validate training content and support an integrated training approach.
• Manage the development, review, and maintenance of training materials, job aids, facilitator guides, learning plans, training documentation, and related resources.
• Monitor training deliverables, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, action items, and completion tracking to ensure project commitments are met.
• Identify audience impacts, training gaps, adoption risks, and business readiness needs to support successful implementation of new MATRiX processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Facilitate communication, status updates, readiness discussions, stakeholder check-ins, and escalation support to ensure alignment, accountability, and timely follow-up.
• Plan and coordinate training delivery activities, including schedules, participant readiness, instructor preparation, logistics, communications, and post-training feedback.
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams to address training priorities, stakeholder concerns, lessons learned, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Recommend updates to training processes, delivery methods, materials, or readiness approaches based on project progress, stakeholder feedback, and adoption needs.
• Provide backup support to other roles within the department, as needed.
• Participate in special projects and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Project Management, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Learning Technologies, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in the utility industry or related industries.
• 3-5 years of experience in operations training, technical training, learning and development, workforce development, or a related field.
• 2-4 years of experience working in a project environment.
• Experience coordinating training deliverables, schedules, stakeholders, milestones, risks, and cross-functional project activities.
• Demonstrated formal or informal leadership experience leading projects, initiatives, teams, or work groups.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, organizational, and project management skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize work, manage multiple assignments, and meet established deadlines.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and other presentation software.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Experience managing multiple tasks and deliverables in a cross-functional team environment while working with diverse project leaders across business units and companies.