Job Details

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven't stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We're always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

SUMMARY

Project Management, Construction at PGE uses one scalable project management methodology to manage various types of construction projects from new construction to major capital upgrades through the engineering procurement, construction, and commissioning phases of the project. It requires working with large teams of subject matter experts and coordinating their activities from cradle to grave through schedules, forecasts, meetings, and reporting.

In this role, you will manage various small to large scale, utility projects across substation, transmission, facilities, communication, generation and interconnection. You must have experience with complex budget and schedule development, RFP and bid processes, and contractor management. If you have successfully managed complex electric utility projects and have a customer focus, we hope to speak with you.

Our team is well recognized across PGE for our ability to lead challenging projects and programs on time and on budget!

Key Responsibilities

• Specialization: Manages small- to large-scale transmission and distribution (T&D) or generation capital construction activities. Manages long- and short-term utility infrastructure development, repair, upgrade, and replacement programs and oversees associated projects.
• Program Development and Planning: May develop program processes, activities and priorities that support long-term strategic asset management, distribution engineering, utility asset management and other engineering goals for small- to medium-scale programs. May identify long-term and short-term resources required to meet program goals, creates strategic actions for program direction, develops and implements new policies for resource management and plans, organizes and implements programs.
• Serves as program project manager with responsibility for meeting program goals for safety, budget, schedule, scope, resources, compliance, and quality and ensuring programs deliver quality and value to the customer while meeting environmental, cultural and community requirements.
• Project Development and Planning: Serves as project manager for medium- to large-scale generation, substation, transmission, and distribution projects. Has responsibility for all aspects of a project, including development, permitting, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. PM is accountable for meeting a project's goals for safety, budget, schedule, scope, resources, compliance, and quality and ensuring projects deliver quality and value to the customer while meeting environmental, cultural and community requirements.
• Develops technical specifications, prepares requests for proposals (RFPs) and evaluates bids with the review of a more senior PM.
• Develops overall project plan, including schedule and cost baselines, dependencies, roles and resource requirements and risk mitigation.
• Program/Project Management: Accountable for effectively managing programs/projects to meet goals for safety, budget, schedule, scope, resources, compliance and quality.
• Determines and applies appropriate project controls; integrates project control processes between various PGE organizations; identifies important and critical cost and schedule issues or concerns to work groups and assists in resolution. Monitors activities relating to permitting, engineering, procurement and construction.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicates program/project updates via regular stakeholder meetings, formal reports, formal presentations and regular electronic communications; ensures updates achieve effective corporate awareness. Accurately reports on program/project status, schedules, financials, problems, risks and other significant issues. Resolves customer issues as applicable.
• Team Leadership: Leads a multidisciplined matrix team in a safe, cost-effective and responsible manner. Provides staff leadership to team members; ensures effective coordination and collaboration among team members and between PGE stakeholder organizations, outside consultants and vendors. Facilitates team meetings; cultivates and reinforces group values, norms and behaviors; provides guidance and motivation to team on performance and productivity issues; ensures compliance with established project management methodologies and standards; takes corrective action as needed.
• External Coordination: Represents and protects PGE's interests in negotiations with government agencies, utilities and property owners and during public meetings. Meets with and keeps agencies and local officials abreast of program/project status.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• Typically, 8 or more years of experience in project management, construction management or engineering or a related field; utility transmission, distribution, or generation experience highly preferred. PMP certification preferred.
• Driver's license: Required

PGE supports hybrid flexible work arrangements; and will have a combination of in-the-office and working offsite. However, these arrangements may change due to business needs or changes in responsibility.

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