Utilities Program Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Binghamton NY
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, MBA preferred.1
- Ten (10) years or more in large scale projects Program Management for Utility business
- Program Management Professional Certification (PgMP) or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Minimum five (5) years' experience in the functional area under which it will be contracted: Gas-Hydro and OSG.
- Ability to influence, lead, and manage change thoughtfully and positively.
- Understands and identifies training or developmental needs of others and has the ability to design and establish new ways to support them.
- Strong project management skills and a strategic perspective is required.
- Support and be part of a team environment.
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills including human resource management, negotiations, and communications.
- Must demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills; and the ability to clearly and effectively present complex information to all levels of employees, manage
- Hybrid Schedule- Must report to the office 3x a week
Full description
K&A Power Group – is a privately held engineering firm delivering worldclass technical expertise and engineering excellence to power utility and industrial clients across the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We provide comprehensive consulting, engineering and design, program and project management, construction management, and EPC services, specializing in substation, transmission, distribution, and distributed energy resources.
We pride ourselves on attracting and developing top talent, building a culture of excellence, and building meaningful, long-term relationships with our employees, clients and communities, wherever they are in the world.
Powered By Innovation, Passion, And Purpose.Start your K&A Career:
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Program Manager to join our team at K&A Power Group in Rochester, New York. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people-focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will be valued and celebrated.
Role Expectations:
- Lead a multi-discipline team through the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction phases of different programs.
- Create and maintain an attitude of leadership towards the contractor's project team with respect to overall management activities (including quality assurance, engineering, procurement, planning and controls, construction management, commissioning, industrial labor relations and safety) to achieve quality programs, while respecting the established budget and schedule objectives.
- Responsible for planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing and delivering the overall program and its activities in accordance with the goals of the organization.
- Focus on SPI and CPI performance indicators as decision drivers.
- Oversight of scheduling/cost controllers and activities.
- Preparing and completing action plans; implementing and reporting on production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying risks, resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining improvements; implementing change.
- Meets Avangrid objectives by preparing Program Initiation and Program Management Plan, executing plan requirements, analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Development of On Boarding, Training and Resource Retention Plan
- Achieve efficiencies by accepting responsibility and accountability for results, accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to the Avangrid organization.