Lead Program Manager, Project Management

About us

National Grid is hiring a Lead Program Manager for our Distribution Planning and Asset Management department in Albany, NY                                       

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. 

The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

Our Non-Wires Alternative (NWA) program works with National Grid’s distribution planning and asset management engineers to develop opportunities to deploy “non-wires” solutions like energy efficiency, demand response, energy storage, distributed generation, and other distributed energy resources to defer the need to make capital improvements to our distribution system.  

The NWA Program Manager will be assigned several potential NWA projects and will be responsible for working with distribution planning engineers, financial analysts, and procurement to manage the screening, competitive bid process, solution selection, and solution development of successful projects.

Key Accountabilities

• Understand and develop comprehensive technical scopes for potential non-wires projects. 
• Provide comprehensive project management for multiple NWA projects including but not limited to managing the following tasks: multi-functional team coordination, opportunity screening, Request for Proposal (RFP) development, benefit/cost analysis, vendor selection, schedule and budget oversight, management of contractors, data management/data transfer process, issue resolution, reporting and closeout of project upon completion, and aftercare post-installation.        
• Participate in regulatory filing activities including filing development, providing testimony, and responding to information requests. ​​​​
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques. 
• Manage third party agreements on operational projects. 
• Ensure lessons learned are implemented across projects through continuous improvement. 
• Develop and maintain a solid understanding of the business by staying abreast of industry trends, and learning and sharing best practices. 
• Understand and develop comprehensive technical scopes for potential non-wires projects. 
• Provide comprehensive project management for multiple NWA projects including but not limited to managing the following tasks: multi-functional team coordination, opportunity screening, Request for Proposal (RFP) development, benefit/cost analysis, vendor selection, schedule and budget oversight, management of contractors, data management/data transfer process, issue resolution, reporting and closeout of project upon completion, and aftercare post-installation.        
• Participate in regulatory filing activities including filing development, providing testimony, and responding to information requests. 
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques. 
• Manage third party agreements on operational projects. 
• Ensure lessons learned are implemented across projects through continuous improvement. 
• Develop and maintain a solid understanding of the business by staying abreast of industry trends, and learning and sharing best practices. Challenge existing processes and continuously seek ways to do things better in order to drive greater efficiencies and design projects that will allow for future revenue opportunities and new business models in the NWA area.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management. 

Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

• A track record of sound decision making and developing working relationships quickly and efficiently across all levels of the organization.
• Excellent communications and stakeholder engagement skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering preferred or the equivalent experience in utility/energy sector
• Five plus years professional experience in engineering or project management in the utility/energy space
• Strong project management skills, including demonstrated capability to manage to project scope, schedule and budget milestone on complicated projects
• Experience drafting successful Requests for Proposal (RFPs) and working with benefit/cost analysis
• Fam