Manager, Projects - Engineering

Chugach Electric Association - Anchorage, AK

Full-time - Mid Level

Anchorage, AK

Utilities

About the position

This position sets department objectives to include building and maintaining a strong team, creating processes, communicating effectively and clearly, supporting, and helping the team deliver clearly identifiable objectives. This position provides strong project management focus to design and construct transmission, sub-transmission, substation, distribution, and switchyard facilities in addition to other electrical or nonelectrical projects as required by Chugach. Implements project management tools and techniques to deliver projects.

Responsibilities

• Utilize established management information systems to monitor budget, operation and maintenance and capital project activity.
• Ensure schedules are developed and regularly updated for expense and capital projects assigned to the Department.
• Oversee contract administration for the acquisition of major equipment and material, for civil and electrical construction, and for engineering services.
• Oversee preparation of detailed work plans and specifications necessary for major project construction.
• Review and approve expenditures within signature limits.
• Submit department capital and expense budget for review and approval.
• Establish project requirements for facilities construction, including distribution, sub-transmission, transmission, and substation.
• Balance the use of consulting engineers to ensure project design schedules are met and that in-house resources are used in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Provide established written or verbal status reports of departmental responsibility areas. Provide monthly project reports detailing financial and schedule performance and alignment with budget.
• Schedule, assign, and direct the work of subordinates, provide training and mentoring. Monitor and evaluate performance of direct report subordinates.
• Ensure performance measures are in place for departmental responsibility areas.
• Participate in negotiation of agreements with state and municipal agencies for modification or relocation or company facilities.
• Direct the design coordination involved in the interconnection of Chugach facilities with other electric utilities.
• Participate in external committee assignments with various organizations with authority to make decisions and act on behalf of Chugach as directed.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive Project Management Plan for departmental processes which will identify when and where to apply appropriate tools and techniques.
• Present to the Chugach Board of Directors for project and contract authorizations.
• Create and maintain an ongoing list of system deficiencies to be slated for capital projects for improvement.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, required, electrical preferred.
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible engineering design or construction experience, required including three (3) years of supervisory and project management responsibility.
• Experience with high voltage (115 kV and greater) land and submarine cables, preferred.
• Must have electrical, mechanical, and architectural experience as needed for complete design, including familiarity with foundations and structures.
• Must have experience in organizing and supervising work groups and coordinating plans and designs with other internal departments and external agencies.
• Experience working in a union environment preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Additional specialized training in electric utility designs, construction, planning and accounting, preferred.
• Alaska Professional Engineer registration or the ability to obtain Alaska Professional Engineer registration by comity within one (1) year, preferred.
• Master's degree in project management or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, desired.