Manager Transmission Project Development - Portfolio Management - Akron, Greensburg, or Reading

FirstEnergy at a Glance

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. [FEU].

This position manages a team of project development employees. The manager is responsible for the full breadth of management of his/her team including scheduling, workflow management, mentoring, coaching, and leadership of the team. The manager is responsible for ensuring that the quality of the product developed by the team meets expectations and that tasks are completed to meet due dates. 

 

The manager will lead the project development efforts. The manager will be responsible for the team’s forecasts, resource plans (labor, equipment, and material), and schedules of projects during the project development phase. This includes responsibility for the managing, monitoring, and controlling of projects to ensure that they safely achieve the project deliverables within the approved scope, schedule, and budget. The manager will lead by example, educate, and direct others on technical subject matters and is responsible for solving highly complex problems and/or managing highly complex projects.  Project Development occurs during the project development phase of the PLMP Process.The goal of the project development phase is to refine projects to minimize unknowns/risks by developing detailed scopes, estimates, schedules, and execution plans while interacting with multiple internal/external teams. 

Responsibilities include:

• Develop, coach and mentor the team.
• Provide strategic vision of process improvements to develop overall best practices.
• Monitor, track and report on overall team progress. Provide project status reports including recurring, standard and ad hoc reports that address the status of scope, budget, and schedule for the assigned projects. Develop reports that identify risks with a mitigation strategy. Develop and maintain project status documents for handoff to project management organization.
• Provide technical review of project solution. Facilitate the refinement of project scope documents. Develop, with input of project team, the strategic and tactical execution plan for the project. Review project documents for clarity and completeness -- examples include scope documents, project plans, estimates, permitting, ROW acquisition and material ordering. 
• Facilitate the process of identifying and mitigating risks associated with proposed projects. The team will coordinate multiple internal support teams to ensure project assumptions are vetted and resolved. This will include hosting site walk downs to determine/resolve project constructability concerns. Having established constructability, the team will then determine the preliminary outage sequencing and availability with operations. 
• Throughout the project vetting process, the team will establish forecasts and schedules and maintain them until the project is ready for release to execution. 
• Coordinate major equipment needs to ensure efficient project execution.
• Develop and review individual capital project financial reports and forecasts that support Portfolio Management business targets and controls.
• Facilitate and participate with other groups and departments for continuous improvement and development of business process controls. 
• Ensure change management protocols are followed to maintain complete documentation of changes in scope, schedule, and cost. 
• Develop and communicate lessons learned by leading project review process.

 

Qualifications include: 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Construction, or Project Management with 10 years of experience preferred. Consideration will be given to non-degreed candidates with over 15 years of experience related to project/construction management. 
• Project and/or Construction Management background is preferred.
• Demonstrated supervision of employees is preferred.
• Strong project management skills are required with a demonstrated ability to develop,