***MUST LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA**
PFES has multiple opportunities for Transmission Line Project Managers. This will be a challenging role in which you will often be involved in the entire scope of the project from initiation through close-out. Our Project Managers play an important role in the growth of our Project Management Services and are responsible for the successful initiation, planning, execution, control and close-out of major electric transmission and distribution projects. The successful candidate must have exceptional leadership skills and possess the ability to successfully navigate through and resolve complex and oftentimes multi-functional challenges associated with large projects.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic project management leadership for large electric transmission projects
- Responsible for leading projects through all internal and external processes, and navigate the project life cycle
- Responsible for the overall management of the project scope, schedule, and cost
- Accountable for key project decision-making
- Manages a collaborative project team to ensure each key functional project discipline is meeting the planned project scope, schedule, and cost
- Lead overall project – coaching, conflict resolution, facilitation, motivation, and negotiation
- Responsible for leading project meetings
- Accountable to develop, update and manage the project plan associated with the project life cycle
- Coordinate communication and provides status updates to stakeholders as required
- Assess project risk and proactively develop mitigation plans
- Proactively manages project requests for information and action items
- Ensure availability or seeks out adequate resources to support the project
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work
Skill Sets
- Proficient in analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions and implement recommendations to support project scope, schedule and cost objectives
- Demonstrates excellent leadership, verbal/written communications, time management, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Consistently produces results that meet goals, has high work standards, and understands the business environment and processes
- Achieves results by problem-solving, setting priorities and organization
- Strives for individual excellence by seeking challenges and self-development, demonstrating high levels of expertise and showing commitment, self-confidence, and integrity
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Minimum of 8 years of electric utility T&D project management experience required
- PMP Certificate desired
- Demonstrate the ability to be organized and work on multiple projects and meet deadlines by setting priorities
- Must be able to prepare clear and concise status updates and reports as required
- Proven experience in Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project)
