Project Mgr

Overview

Tekwissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is is a major investor-owned electric utility in the United States, delivering electricity to more than five million customers in 11 states. Our client ranks among the nation's largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. The client also owns the nation's largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile (63,000 km) network that includes 765 kilovolts ultra-high voltage transmission lines, more than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. Our client's utility units operate as our company Ohio, our company Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). Our client's headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.

Job Title: Project Mgr

Location: New Albany OH 43054

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid

Description:

• Manage intermediate or complex Electric Transmission Line and Station EPC projects within a matrix team environment.

• Provide leadership, direction, training, coordination, and effective communication to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close projects in a safe, efficient, economical, risk-balanced approach to achieve short and long-range goals and to obtain maximum customer satisfaction.

• Develop relationships and effectively communicate with all stakeholders, including internal customers, external customers, team members, suppliers, contractors, vendors, and industry peers.

Essential Job Functions & Tasks:

• Lead project team to provide monthly financial forecasts based on the EPC contractor's milestone schedules.

• Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and supervise assigned project activities, becoming proficient in all aspects.

• Support and hold employees and contractors accountable for the Client System Safety Process, ensuring a safe working environment focused on Zero Harm.

• Manage, develop, review and coordinate the project/outage plan, schedule, and budget becoming proficient in all aspects.

• Manage cost and timely reallocation of funding.

• Effectively communicate project details and status updates to the project team and upper management.

• Lead planning meetings and project updates including typical stakeholder presentations. Provide clear and concise written and oral reports and other communications.

• Develop and actively manage working relationships with the project team, plant and operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers.
  Foster teamwork and actively pursue customer satisfaction.

• Provide guidance, instruction, and training to improve design, systems, procedures, processes, schedules, and costs.

• Confidently challenge others at a level of informed understanding in all project work. Ensure maximum customer satisfaction and demonstrate the effective and efficient performance of project work activities on the intermediate project level at a minimum.

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, project management, or related field of study dependent upon business unit requirements with no experience (0 years); two-year Associate's degree in the same required disciplines with two (2) years of qualified experience.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, project management, or related field of study with 3 years qualified experience, or two-year Associate's degree in the same disciplines with 5 years of qualified experience.

• Qualified experience includes outage management activities, business administration, major commercial construction field experience, project estimating, controls, and engineering, and/or comparable experience in a competitive production environment.

• Knowledge in construction safety, negotiations, scope development/control, cost estimating, construction contracting, project controls/reporting, and quality control are beneficial.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.