PM - Major Construction

Job Title:   Project Manager - Major Construction

Reports To:  Manager - Projects

Reports in office to Rochester, NY

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $103,930 - $129,924

Job Summary

Scope of Work – Main duties, settings, geography, reporting relationships, and other relationships:

The PM – Major Construction is responsible for coordinating activities between several substation projects, located in New York, by managing resource requirements, priorities, investment plans, project execution strategy and internal/ external resource requirements. Projects may originate due to reliability, asset health, system capacity customer or other project need.

Responsibility includes meeting corporate goals for capital investment, 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 standard

Key Responsibilities

• Analyzes project 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. Approves project plans, executes contract strategies to undertake work and controls and authorizes expenditures. Initiates actions to ensure compliance with project and quality management processes and procedures. Assures that projects are completed within the approved scope, schedule, and budget. More specifically:

• Coordinates with project stakeholders including 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.

• Development and maintenance of detailed schedules and risk management plans to execute projects

• Execution and management of multiple procurement efforts to obtain contractors for design, construction, and oversight of projects

• Utilizes schedule management techniques, such as critical path and earned value, to continuously monitor project progress and develop corrective actions to maintain scope and cost of projects

• Investigation and analysis of variances with recommendation to senior level management

• Ensuring a safe work environment through process and procedure adherence and safety metrics

• Considers innovative ways to undertake work, promoting automation and efficiencies in day-to-day work streams

• Responsible for Project accountability overview, making sure that it complies with FERC, NERC and any other applicable regulation.

• Works with senior leadership on the risk definition, cost, and the mitigation action analysis.

• Attendance at Executive management meetings, providing and presenting reports and cost-schedule-risk views as required.

Required Qualifications

• Skills/Abilities:
  • Ability to mobilize matrixed team members to deliver projects on time and under budget
  • Expert in risk management and mitigation plans
  • Development of cost loaded, critical path project schedules and earned value reports
  • Expert in utilizing financial spreadsheets for data analysis, budgeting and planning.
  • Public presentation skills and ability to summarize concepts utilizing scheduling software tools
  • Understanding of quality assurance processes and implement with project structure.
  • Knowledge of main configuration and general arrangements of networks.
  • Proven ability to lead teams and work in a team environment

• Experience/Training:
  • Experienced in managing heavy construction projects
  • Experienced in contract negotiations and supplier management
  • Proven experience obtaining siting permits
  • Project Management Professional Certification
  • Construction Safety Training
  • Experience in public speaking, construction management, and regulatory compliance

• Required Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years relevant experience required.

Qualifications

• Primavera .

• Degree in Engineering or experience in energy industry

• Project Management and OSHA Certification

• Advanced degree

• Delivering for the Business:
  • Global view of the Business – Competent
  • Achieving Results and Continuous Improvements – Advanced
  • Initiative – Advanced
  • Innovation & Creativity – Competent

• Global Relationships:
  • Flexibility & Globalization – Advanced
  • Customer Focus – Advanced
  • Communicating & Influencing – Advanced
  • Teamwork – Advanced

• Managing People:
  • Team Management – Advanced
  • Developing Others – Competent

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement

• Initiative & Change

• Focused on Results

• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Company:

ROCHESTER GAS & ELEC CORP

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Job Posting End Date:

June-29-2025