Project Manager
Avangrid

Job Info

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Job Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for coordinating activities between Station and Line projects, located in Maine, New York, and Connecticut, by managing resource requirements, priorities, investment plans, project execution strategy and internal/external resource requirements. These projects may originate due to interconnections, reliability, asset health, system capacity customer or other project need.

Responsibility includes meeting corporate goals for capital investment or project budget estimation, 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 & Responsibilities

• Interfacing with all project stakeholders and local permitting agencies.
• Participates in project team scheduling and budgetary planning processes.
• Works within the project unit, managing internal and external project resources. Sets unit goals and direction to align and undertakes action plans, program management to accomplish goals.
• Oversees project budgets. Analyzes project unit 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. Develop 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.
• Coordinates with other departments, consultants, attorneys, utilities, regulatory agencies, government agencies, and major customers. May represent the company and testify in regulatory hearings or at Federal, State, or local agency or municipal meetings.
• 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 the overall management and control of project unit budgets including O&M and Capital.
• Informs management and project teams regarding cost and schedule performance variances and corrective action required.
• Responsible for ensuring the risk control system is utilized.
• Continually monitors individual progress to insure meeting of specific deadlines.
• Responsible for Project accountability overview, making sure that it complies with FERC, NERC, and any other applicable regulation.
• Attendance to Cost & Schedule Meetings.
• Works with Coordinator on the Risk definition, cost, and the Mitigation Action analysis.
• Attendance to Executive management meetings, providing and presenting reports and cost-schedule-risk views as required.

Education & Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree required, engineering major preferred.
• 5 years relevant experience required in Utilities/Energy industry projects or other major civil works projects
• MBA preferred
• Project Management Certification preferred
• Experienced in contract negotiations and supplier management required
• Proven experience obtaining siting permits preferred
• Knowledge of main configuration and general arrangements of network (substations, overhead lines, and cable) infrastructure preferred
• Supervision of field personnel and construction contractors
• Knowledge of budget estimation and cost control
• Knowledge of scheduling

Skills & Abilities Required

• Ability to mobilize team members to deliver projects on time and under budget
• Expert in integrating Scheduling IT tools and software: MS Project with costs and resource requirements and/or Primavera
• Knowledge of risk management and mitigation plans
• Expert in utilizing MS Excel for data analysis, budgeting and planning and optimizing schedules
• Knowledge of SAP preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Public presentation skills and ability to summarize concepts utilizing Microsoft Project
• Results oriented
• Understanding of quality assurance processes and implement with project structure
• Proven ability to lead teams and work in a team environment
• Team oriented
• Program and project management skills
• Leadership skills
• Document control
• Self-motivated

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Competencies

• Develop Self & Others
• Empower to grow
• Collaborate and Share
• Be a role model
• Focus to achieve results
• Be agile
• Technical Skills

Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within AVANGRD Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Renewables

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Nearest Major Market: Binghamton

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