Assistant Project Manager

Project managers in program management will pursue job responsibilities in the following areas: Project Management: • Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout. • Oversee 5-20 projects concurrently of varying sizes ($100k-$50M+) and voltages (4kV-765kV). • Manage projects for schedule adherence, identifying risks and requirements to successfully achieve a project’s in-service date. • Navigate projects through client gate approval processes, including presentations to senior and executive management as required by each client. • Manage projects for financial adherence, maintaining an accurate cost forecast reflecting committed and uncommitted costs for an estimate-at-completion. • Coordinate craft labor resources with client-approved vendors for construction, testing and other field activities. • Provide regular status updates on projects by maintaining project data and routine reporting as well as meeting updates for clients. • Lead project meetings with cost, schedule, real estate, environmental, construction, public engagement, and engineering resources to facilitate project execution. • Develop a multi-year capital expenditure plan to support the client’s replacement and betterment of electric transmission and distribution assets. • Regular interface and coordination with project sponsor organizations to determine details of proposed plans and business justification. • Ensure synergies across projects are incorporated into the portfolio of work to prevent scope from being duplicated or performed inefficiently. • Monitor composition of client’s capital investment allocation to align with stated subsidiary investment targets for optimal rate of return. • Engage with project sponsors to evaluate need-by date for realistic schedules and budgets. • Assist with creation and compilation of rate filing support for federal and state filings. • Review tabletop engineering estimates for accuracy and scope. • Review project change requests (scope, In-service date, etc.) and reconcile with the existing and long-range portfolio of work. • Interface with client’s accounting group to establish financial setup for projects. • Create analyses & reports to assist the client in tracking, coordination, and execution of projects. • Build baseline scopes, schedules, and budgets to be released to multiple client’s stakeholders. • Responsible for developing substation and transmission project construction lifecycles, with a focus on outage efficiency and constructability. • Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting specified deliverable dates and expectations. • Analyze scoping and project documents to determine boundaries of required construction within the substation and within electric grid. • Conduct site walkdowns and project calls with the project team as necessary to establish an achievable construction sequence with attainable outages. • Analyze needed outages against adjacent outages scheduled in the area. • Create initial outage sequence to communicate proposed construction lifecycle to project team. • Coordinate with drafting resources to create engineering-caliber drawings that document the evolution of a project from present conditions to final state and all needed incremental steps. Requirements: Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related degree from accredited program 5+ years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or other related industries Preferred: relevant T&D (gas or electrical) engineering that are open to pivoting as a program PM for a utility client. Familiarity or proficiency in ProjectWise, SharePoint, SAP, and cost/schedule management, preferred. Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. #J-18808-Ljbffr