Sr PM - Major Construction

Company: UIL/Avangrid

Business Area:  Projects

Department:  Substation Projects

Job Title: Senior Project Manager: Major Construction Projects

Reports to:  Unit Manager, Substation Projects

Location:  Orange, CT

The salary range for this position is dependent on experience level ranging from $122,000 to $153,000.00

Job Summary:

Scope of Work – Main duties, settings, geography, reporting relationships, and other relationships:

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for coordinating activities between several Substation projects, located in Connecticut, by managing resource requirements, priorities, investment plans, project execution strategy and internal/external resource requirements. Projects may originate due to reliability, asset health, system capacity customer or other project need. 

Responsibility includes meeting corporate goals for capital investment, managing Construction Work in Progress, and energization of projects. Must manage team performance to maximize the effectiveness of capital budget delivery considering the environment, operating efficiency, regulatory, CWIP and operational needs.

Represents the company in regulatory and public forums. Coordinate activities of project team members including engineers, construction managers, and external contractors. Facilitates the work of external contractors and other internal business areas. Holds contractors accountable for performance. Holds project team members accountable for results. Provides technical advice to senior management when required.  Responsible for the overall project control and reporting, providing leadership and coordination of the scheduling, cost controlling and reporting processes and functions. Ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within budget and in conformance to quality and engineering standards.

Major Roles and Responsibilities (Scope of work - range of responsibilities): 

• Program and project management skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Works within the project unit, managing internal and external project resources.
• Oversees project budgets, O&M and Capital. Analyzes project performance and initiates actions to control scope, schedule and cost performance. Proactive approach to overseeing work measures progress and takes actions to ensure budgets and deadlines are achieved. Approves project plans, executes contract strategies to undertake work and controls and authorizes expenditures. Initiates actions to ensure compliance with a project management and quality management processes and procedures.
• Assures that projects are completed within the approved scope, schedule, and budget.
• Informs management and project teams regarding cost and schedule performance variances and corrective action required.
• Coordinates with other departments, consultants, attorneys, utilities, municipal stakeholders and local permitting agencies, regulatory agencies, government agencies, and major customers. May represent the company and testify in regulatory hearings or at Federal, State, local agency or municipal meetings. 
• Responsible for the overall management and control of project budgets including O&M and Capital
• Responsible for Project accountability overview, making sure that it complies with FERC, NERC and any other applicable regulation.
• Considers innovative ways to undertake work, promoting automation and efficiencies in day-to-day work streams.
• Provides recommendations on policies and goals desired and implements new/revised processes and procedures according to established guidelines.
• Responsible for ensuring the risk control system is utilized.
• Responsible for Risk definition, cost, and the Mitigation Action analysis.
• Attendance to Executive management meetings, providing and presenting reports and cost-schedule-risk views as required.
• Interface with municipal stakeholders and local permitting agencies

Job Requirements:

Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to mobilize team members  to deliver projects on time and under budget.
• Expert in integrating Scheduling IT tools and software: MS Project and/or Primavera with costs and resource requirements.
• Expert in risk management and mitigation plans.
• Expert in utilizing MSExcel for data analysis, budgeting and planning.
• Ability to use and query SAP.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Public presentation skills and ability to summarize concepts presented accordingly.
• Results oriented.
• Understanding of quality assurance processes (QMS, EMS, ISO 9000, ISO 14000) and implement with project structure.
• Knowledge of mai