Staff or Senior Construction Project/Program Manager

Description

• Program/Project Management: Establishes formal project control processes; monitors and tracks activities to timely identify variances from baselines and takes appropriate corrective actions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• Serves as program project manager with responsibility for meeting program goals for safety, budget, schedule, scope, resources, compliance, and quality and ensuring programs deliver quality and value to the customer while meeting environmental, cultural and community requirements.
• Team Leadership: Leads a multidisciplined matrix team in a safe, cost-effective and responsible manner. Provides staff leadership to team members; ensures effective coordination and collaboration among team members and between PGE stakeholder organizations, outside consultants and vendors. Facilitates team meetings; cultivates and reinforces group values, norms and behaviors; provides guidance and motivation to team on performance and productivity issues; ensures compliance with established project management methodologies and standards; takes corrective action as needed.
• Develops overall project plan, including schedule and cost baselines, dependencies, roles and resource requirements and risk mitigation.
• Program Development and Planning: May develop program processes, activities and priorities that support long-term strategic asset management, distribution engineering, utility asset management and other engineering goals for small- to medium-scale programs. May identify long-term and short-term resources required to meet program goals, creates strategic actions for program direction, develops and implements new policies for resource management and plans, organizes and implements programs.
• Develops technical specifications, prepares requests for proposals (RFPs) and evaluates bids with the review of a more senior PM.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicates program/project updates via regular stakeholder meetings, formal reports, formal presentations and regular electronic communications; ensures updates achieve effective corporate awareness. Accurately reports on program/project status, schedules, financials, problems, risks and other significant issues. Resolves customer issues as applicable.
• Program Development and Planning: Develops strategic plans when applicable; assesses and evaluates technologies and potential sites for construction projects; estimates for capital costs, operating and maintenance costs and performance for projects. Prepares project proposals for RFPs.
• External Coordination: Represents and protects PGE’s interests in negotiations with government agencies, utilities and property owners and during public meetings. Meets with and keeps agencies and local officials abreast of program/project status.
• May lead functional teams or projects
• Project Development and Planning: Serves as project manager for medium- to large-scale generation, substation, transmission, and distribution projects. Has responsibility for all aspects of a project, including development, permitting, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. PM is accountable for meeting a project’s goals for safety, budget, schedule, scope, resources, compliance, and quality and ensuring projects deliver quality and value to the customer while meeting environmental, cultural and community requirements.
• Specialization: Manages small- to large -scale transmission and distribution (T&D) or generation capital construction activities. Manages long- and short-term utility infrastructure development, repair, upgrade, and replacement programs and oversees associated projects.
• Program/Project Management: Accountable for effectively managing programs/projects to meet goals for safety, budget, schedule, scope, resources, compliance and quality.
• Determines and applies appropriate project controls; integrates project control processes between various PGE organizations; identifies important and critical cost and schedule issues or concerns to work groups and assists in resolution. Monitors activities relating to permitting, engineering, procurement and construction.

Requirements

• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather.
• Advanced decision-making skills.
• This position is open to both a Senior/p4 Project/Program Manager or a Staff/p3 level.  The level will be determine based on the successful applicant’s qualification, experience, and demonstrated skills during the interview process. See determining qualifications below.
• Staff: Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field. Typically, 5 or more years of experience in project management, construction management or engineering or a related field; utility experience highly preferred. PMP certification preferred.
• Advanced written/oral communication skills.
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
• Works independently; receives minimal guidance
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of construction estimating, project risk management, project scope control and project communication management.
• Advanced business process interrelationships skills.
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Driver’s license: Required
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of the principles, concepts and methods used in T&D engineering, construction, and maintenance.
• Ability to work long hours.
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance.
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of work management systems, i.e., WMS and Maximo.
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of utility accounting, procurement, and budgeting.
• Intermediate/Advanced ability to manage stakeholders.
• Lifting/pushing/pulling: Up to 10 lbs.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of utility infrastructure.
• Intermediate/Advanced business acumen.
• Intermediate/Advanced negotiation skills.
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
• Senior: Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field. Typically, 8 or more years of experience in project management, construction management or engineering or a related field; utility transmission, distribution, or generation experience highly preferred. PMP certification preferred.
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of budget and resource forecasting principles and methods.
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services
• Advanced/Advanced knowledge of and skill in using MS Project, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Intermediate/Advanced conflict management skills.
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Advanced analytical thinking skills.
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge and skill in the application of project management principles, processes, and best practices.
• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
• Advanced organization/prioritization skills.
• Intermediate/Advanced team-building skills.
• Ability to work a variable schedule.
• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance