Substation Project Manager

About the Organization

E2 Consulting Engineers, Inc. (E2) is a professional services firm established in 1988 specializing in a full spectrum of engineering services including, project engineering and design, federal base operations and infrastructure support services, gas pipeline construction and inspection services, environmental consulting and remediation, and information technology services. At E2, we value safety, innovation and collaboration, and we are dedicated to excellence.

Overview

Responsible for the deliverables associated with substation design projects supporting one of our largest electric utility clients.  The substation “physical” design activities include yard layouts, plans, sections and details, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems, and associated bills of material. The substation “protection and control” design activities include one-line & three-line diagrams, AC & DC elementary & logic diagrams, front & rear panel elevations and wiring, supervisory & control drawings, electrical vendor equipment wiring diagrams, complete cable schedule and bill of materials. The successful candidate will ultimately have approximately 70% technical and project management work and 30% management responsibilities. The position will be reporting directly to the Substation Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

Technical Execution and Project Oversight

• Initiate Projects: complete project initiation documents, which include detailed work scope/outline, budget, and schedule for completion.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering/design work for project.
• Design, provide quality reviews or technical oversight for engineering deliverables.
• Develop & specify equipment, assemble documents & other requirements for assignments of projects using depth & breadth of expertise in own discipline.
• Oversee projects to ensure designs are compliant with applicable company, local, state, and national codes, and standards.
• Project Definition: assist Project Team in defining/clarifying project scope and level of detail required satisfying customer expectations and projecting requirements.
• Maintain Project Status: keep the project status reporting system (database) current with the actions and changes that take place on assigned projects, so the overall organization is able to respond to client requests.
• Monitoring budget and schedule, assigning resources to a project, communication and collaboration with the client's project managers and project engineers, collaborating and mentoring with design team, and working with other departments.
• Control Costs: assist Project Managers in controlling project expenditures and schedule performance as necessary to satisfy project requirements and ensure satisfactory budget performance on all projects including making recommendations for notices of potential scope change.
• Maximize Project Profitability: through appropriate project budgeting/pricing, utilization of resources and cost controls, maximize the profit margin on individual projects.
• Coordinate/Communicate with Peers: work with project team to identify, document and resolve changes that may impact schedule and budget performance of project.
• Communicates effectively with project team and clients as required to facilitate coordination of design or construction activities and flow of technical information. This includes tracking/resolving action items, information requests and assisting the design team in the resolution of technical issues as required.
• Support the development and implementation of client’s project engineering/management tools, standards, and processes to support successful project engineering implementation.
• Must be able to develop an understanding of numerous utility stakeholder departments.

Leadership & Staff Development

• Manage Project Implementation: leads assigned project team, ensuring that project goals/objectives are achieved, and all business processes and applicable procedures are followed.
• Manage a Protection & Control and Physical Design team working on projects for a client with a growing workload.
• Lead a team of engineers and designers to develop efficient, safe, and constructible design solutions for brownfield and greenfield substation projects at conceptual, feasibility and engineering stages through project closeout.
• Ensures projects are closed-out and archived in a timely manner in accordance with applicable procedures.  Analyzes trends on project performance metrics and makes recommendations to project management team on corrective actions.
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