Project Manager

The project manager is responsible for scheduling projects, resource allocation, and coordinating onsite activities with the project supervisors.

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In states from DE to TX, ULCS needs people with a variety of skills and capabilities to help us build smarter more resilient energy grids and futures for our customers and communities. It’s important work that communities increasingly depend on for their quality of life and we are making a difference for the customers and communities and growing as more customers discover the ULCS difference. It’s rewarding work and a career that can support you on your life’s journey. If you’d like to make a difference too, then own your career.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Manage the schedule and financial reporting of assigned projects for regional operations.
• Schedule field construction to optimize available resources against customer need dates across widespread geographic area.
• Monitor progress of field construction projects and provide direction to field leadership on status and needed changes to drive profitability.
• Develop and maintain project status communication tools (Smartsheet, Excel, performance metric charts, and tables).
• Develop and maintain tools and programs to collect production in the field using mobile communication platforms.
• Ensure proper submission of completed field work for billing.
• Validate and submit reports to utility customers.
• Interaction with project supervisors and subcontractors for coordination to ensure schedule, and cost controls are being met.
• Manages project risks, issues/problems, and activity progress to ensure project goals (e.g., schedule, scope, and quality) are achieved.
• Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed.
• Long-term outlook and planning to ensure long lead items are procured as needed per schedule.
• Identifies project management coordination process gaps or areas for improvement and recommends and implements solutions.
• Performs additional related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Strong functional mathematical and analytical skills.
• Comfortable with direct written and oral communication with external customer leadership, and with internal corporate executive leadership.
• Able to analyze large volumes of data and perform metrics analysis.

Education & Experience

• 2-year college degree in construction management, engineering, or other related field OR 5 years of on-the-job project management experience in the construction field.
• Experience creating and maintaining resource-loaded project schedules.
• Experience utilizing resource tools to manage capacity, forecast demand, and allocation of employees.
• Intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and charts, Microsoft Office Suite, and a project scheduling program such as Microsoft Projects or similar.
• Experience using Smartsheet is preferred, but not required

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

License & Certifications:

• Valid driver's license required.

Travel Requirements:

• Able to travel out of state for emergency storm work as needed.

Physical Requirements:

• RARE: (less than 10%): stooping, kneeling, squatting, body twisting, crawling, climbing on/off trucks, climbing poles, gripping, climbing ladders, balancing
• OCCASIONAL: (up to 33%): standing, sitting, sense of touch, manual dexterity, seeing distant, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., seeing, reaching, range of motion, depth perception, color vision, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing stairs, lifting up to 10 lbs., lifting up to 50 lbs.
• FREQUENT: (up to 66%): walking
• CONTINUOUS: (up to 100%): speaking clearly, reading, hearing-speech range

Safety

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods, be able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments, be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, be able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, be capable of performing job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, be able to communicate with others, read, write, and comprehend written/verbal job instructions and information, and communicate and handle conflict professionally.

Hazards:

• Works alone in energized high voltage electrical substations up to 345,000 volts.
• Must work in close proximity of energized electrical equipment up to 345,000 volts.
• Exposed to static and induced voltages.
• Exposed to Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF).
• May be exposed to Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave Frequency.
• Works around hazardous equipment.
• Works with energized parts or equipment.
• May be subjected to high intensity and stressful situations.
• Work in all temperatures (cold, snow, ice, wind, rain, heat).
• Exposed to traffic and mobile equipment.
• Works on construction sites with uneven terrain.
• May be exposed to nature, i.e., irritating plants and biting or stinging insects.
• Work may be performed at varying heights above ground, in manholes, and/or in confined spaces.

About Us:

Utility Lines Construction Services (ULCS) delivers electric and gas utility construction and maintenance services for investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, municipalities, large industrial manufacturers, government, general contractors, developers and EPC firms. Formed in 2000 from small beginnings, ULCS now boasts more than 2,300 non-union employees in 15 states safely performing utility transmission and distribution infrastructure work throughout the Mid-Atlantic, the Delmarva Peninsula, the Southeast and the South regions of the United States.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.