Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Welty Energy is a professional services company specializing in program and project management within the energy sector. They are seeking a Project Development Project Manager to oversee electric substation and transmission projects, ensuring they meet the outlined scope and are completed on time and within budget.
Responsibilities
- Review and analyze technical project documents and available information to develop a strategic project schedule, forecast and scope to meet desired outcomes for projects requested by Project Sponsors
- Evaluating the project scope with internal & external support teams to document and mitigate the risks associated with the project scope, schedule, and budget to promote advancement of the Project to execution within a timely manner
- Developing, with input from Sponsors and Stakeholders, the project execution plan, and key deliverables for the project
- Provide projected contractor resource levels and project durations for project schedules
- Reviewing Project estimates from supporting team members for adequacy and completeness
- Initiating and ensuring project costs are maintained within Leadership approval levels and seek capital expenditure authorizations when required
- Ensuring change management protocols are followed to maintain complete documentation of changes in scope, schedule and forecast until a project advances into later Project Phases
- Providing project status updates for reports and support the organization of emergent requests and needs
- Ensuring adequacy of Project Team membership and participation. Responsible for acquiring project update information and informing project team members of overall project goals, priorities and decisions
- Coordinating project schedules to request system outages for the project with operations and submit outage requests per PJM/Internal timelines
- Supporting the Portfolio Management Team on the development of a multiyear portfolio through ensuring accurate project schedules and forecasts
- Communicating Project status to the Project Sponsor (Region and/or Corporate Teams) and other Stakeholders
- Supporting Project challenge meetings, peer reviews and assessments when performed
- Ensuring the Continuous Improvement in the Project Development team. Self-performing lessons learned audits of completed projects to evaluate gaps in tools or project techniques. Lessons learned will be led and communicated through the Project Development Project Manager
Skills
- Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Construction Management or related field is required
- Minimum of 3 years' related experience required
- In lieu of degree, consideration will be given to applicants having 7 years related experience or 5 years transmission or distribution utility experience
- Related experience includes project organization, engineering, finance, construction, project management, planning or project controls
- Strong project management abilities with exceptional time management skills are required
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication skills along with strong analytical ability are required
- Experience with a project management tool such as Primavera, MS Project, etc. with related Scheduling / Resource Planning expertise is a plus
- Detailed Project Controls experience is a plus
- Understanding of construction timing and construction documentation
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