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.

Portfolio Management:

• 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.

Outage/Construction Sequencing:

• 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.
• PE or PMP certification preferred.