Project Manager T&D

Project Manager T&D
Status: Full-time Direct hire
Location: Hybrid, 2 days a week onsite in Allentown, PA
Experience level: 5+ years in Project Management
Compensation: $55 to $65 an hour depending on experience level
Please note this is not a contract but a full-time direct hire paid on an hourly basis.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as staff augment Project Manager assigned to customers power delivery departments in PA (Transmission or Distribution).
• Manage a portfolio of projects ranging from $10M to $100M from engineering kickoff through project closeout.
• Oversee various individual projects including:
  • Greenfield substation projects
  • Substation upgrades and rebuilds
  • Asset replacement projects – programmatic work – replacing breakers, relays, etc.
  • Overhead reconductor and new line installations
• Project Responsibilities:
  • Oversee the design phase covering all facets of engineering – physical/electrical, protection & control, SCADA.
  • Manage regulatory and permitting requirements – ROW, permitting, environmental (E&S, NPDES, etc.), survey, customer engagement (where required).
  • Conduct pre-execution planning:
    • Establish construction resources (internal or contracted) and issue associated RFPs and PO's.
    • Oversee and support outage submissions in a timely manner in accordance with PUC and PJM requirements.
    • Ensure material and procurement activities align with the project schedule.
  • Execute project management:
    • Manage day-to-day tasks and activities of assigned construction resources.
    • Achieve in-service milestones and complete construction activities.
    • Conduct testing and commissioning.
  • Closeout responsibilities:
    • Complete punch lists.
    • Ensure acceptance of facilities and asset commissioning.
    • Handle administrative actions – place projects in-service, closeout financials and schedules.
  • Maintain project controls – schedule and cost:
    • Cost management:
      • Budget and budget variance.
      • Project forecast and variance.
      • Contract management; change orders; cash-flow.
      • Ensure changes are managed through proper governance.
    • Schedule management:
      • Develop and implement milestone schedule.
      • Ensure the project scheduler has P6 properly updated.
      • Monitor schedule milestones and identify ways to crash schedule to overcome risks, delays, and issues.
      • Ensure changes are managed through proper governance.

• Prior utility experience is preferred.
• Prior project management experience is a must – if no utility experience, then PM experience in a construction industry.
• Demonstrated experience in managing full life-cycle of projects (from inception to close-out).
• Proven experience managing cost and schedule of the project (budget, forecast, variances, etc.).
• Experience managing multi-discipline projects and associated functional groups (ROW, environmental, permitting, design, procurement) during project planning and execution.

• Bachelor's Degree required (but experience can trump this).
• PMP certification is good, but not a requirement.
• Master's Degree is not a requirement.
• 3 years of utility project management experience or 5 years of construction project management experience.