Electrical Substation Project Manager

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Mesa seeks a motivated Electrical Substation Project Manager to manage P&C and Physical Design teams who are working on a growing customers project portfolio. Responsibilities include communicating with our clients project managers and working with Mesas project team to deliver outstanding customer service and high-quality substation designs.

Required abilities for Electrical Substation Project Manager:

• Mature knowledge of medium through extra high voltage substations protection & control systems and physical design layout requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership in developing and supporting Mesas and our customers safety programs.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to coordinate with and interface with clients vendors engineers colleagues and other electric utilities personnel.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and work effectively with clients peers and affiliates.
• Capable of understanding and implementing new processes/procedures with regards to Project and Program management.
• Knowledgeable on the Project Management Institutes (PMIs) standard for Organizational Project Management (OPM).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office scheduling software and the ability to work with corporate accounting practices and business operations.
• Experience with electrical utility equipment systems and project/programs IS required.

Responsibilities of Electrical Substation Project Manager:

• Manage electrical substation projects throughout their design lifecycle
• Manage multiple projects of various complexity concurrently
• Conduct meetings/calls with project stakeholders build consensus and resolution to challenges discussed manage the assignment follow-up and completion of meeting action items
• Manage the project planning process to ensure each projects outcome meets customers objectives
• Communicate project milestone requirements with all key stakeholders upon receipt of customers approval to proceed
• Attend customer job walks and provide technical/project support to customers Responsible Engineer
• Complete job walk checklist and review/contribute to meeting minutes. Review project SOW and identify any site constraints/conditions which may impact project feasibility. Provide recommendations to customer project team where reduction in costs or schedule length may be achieved
• Identify project risks create a project risk register and apply project risk management and mitigation techniques
• Develop and submit a project estimate to customer within timeframe allotted by customer
• Develop a project execution plan and determine the resources necessary to ensure successful project completion
• Work with group leads to manage design and engineering resources
• Conduct Project Kick-off meetings with all project stakeholders and share project baselines which will be used to monitor and control the projects KPIs
• Maintain a project log and project status reporting system database to capture communications milestone reviews key project data and change orders
• Monitor and control projects to ensure project meets customers SOW and prevent scope creep
• Monitor project execution for changes that may impact schedule and budget performance of project
• Communicate all project changes with customer and project team in a timely fashion to permit evaluation of alternatives to minimize schedule and budget impacts and update project execution plan
• Monitor and control Project Quality. Ensure QAQC activities are completed on time and all deliverables meet customers requirements at each milestone/stage gate
• Monitor project metrics and provide appropriate feedback to stakeholders to maintain project performance per the project plan
• Manage internal change order processes to meet Mesas and our customers requirements
• Monitor project budgets and financial reports on a weekly/bi-weekly basis analyzing Planned Value Earned Value and Schedule/Cost Variance. Provide team with Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and Cost Performance Index (CPI) data on a regular basis
• Respond to RFIs and ensure customer receives accurate and timely information regarding project inquires
• Initiate RFIs and facilitate necessary discussions to resolve any gaps in knowledge
• Close out projects in a timely fashion complete all necessary customer reports/documentation
• Conduct a project close-out meeting with project stakeholders to capture and record all Lessons Learned
• Support the development and implementation of clients project engineering/management tools standards and processes to support successful project engineering implementation

Highly Preferred: Experience with Southern California Edison engineering standards and project management requirements

BENEFITS:

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay 10 Annually

Group Medical/Dental Insurance

Life Insurance (Company Paid)

Disability Insurance (Company Paid)

401(K) Retirement Savings Plan

401(K) Matching Contribution

Section 125 / Cafeteria Plan

Long Term Care Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Fitness Center Reimbursement

Annual Performance Bonus

9/80 Work Schedule

ANNUAL SALARY RANGE:$120000 to $155000.

The expected compensation is a range determined by factors including but not limited to education experience and qualifications of the candidate internal equity work location and hiring departments fiscal resources.

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Required Experience:

IC