Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:
•    Manage a portfolio of large, high visibility, potentially high-risk projects, first of a kind solutions, penalties, and rewards, accelerated schedules for the Electrical Substation and FACTS markets.
•     Act as a single point of contact for senior level customer contacts and internal / external project team. Assuming overall responsibility for project leadership and strategy including planning, directing, and controlling resources / processes in complex work-scope projects to ensure compliance to customer specifications, quality standards and safety and technical / engineering standards 
•     Estimate budgets and track / influence costs of projects, ensuring on time completion within budget. Engage as required in pre-contract processes during project scope, scheduling, and cost development. 
•     Interface with other engineering fields and support functions to coordinate project development, implementation and control of Project Specialists, Project Managers, and other Engineers to enhance project management skills. 
•    Interface with suppliers, subcontractors, and customers to align project specifications and requirements. 
•    Ensure safety procedures on site and strict adherence to quality standards. 
•    Develop multiple contracts / subcontractor work scopes and coordinate administration for written contracts; including resolution of issues through the use of change management and ensure timely collection of monies.  
•    Determine and communicate work package percent complete and percent committed required for project financial "estimate at completion" forecasting. 
•    Facilitate the quantification and documentation of project performance with both the project team and customer immediately after project completion.

Qualifications/Requirements:
•    Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college
•    Minimum of 10 year’s experience in project management of electrical substations

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: 
•    Ability and willingness to travel 25% of the time, may include international travel, and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies

Desired Characteristics:
•    Prior experience in managing high voltage electrical utility projects
•    Previous responsibility for projects or programs involving multiple businesses and/or functions across the entire project cycle, i.e. development and design through manufacturing, delivery, installation, and commissioning and test acceptance
•    Ability to manage external, customer-facing projects to successful completion
•    Ability to apply advanced technical, engineering, and quality assurance concepts to solve practical business problems
•    Experience collaborating with global teams and partners
•    Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of service quality in all aspects of project delivery
•    Ability to successfully interface with executive level management within both the sponsor and customer organizations  
•    Ability to apply and coach managerial and leadership concepts and techniques (plan, execute, direct, coach, mentor, evaluate and control)
•    Decision-making skills, interpersonal & leadership skills coupled with oral and written communications
•    Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple long and short-term projects simultaneously
•    PMI certification; familiarity with modern project management techniques & software systems, including global resource planning systems and Primavera project management software
•    Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities  
•    Familiarity with contractual terms and experience managing customer-facing contracts including proposal preparation for complex substations, which might include international work and quality training