Utility Project Manager Jobs in Portland, OR (NOW HIRING)

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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!

*This position is open to both a Senior/p4 Project Manager or a Staff/p3 level. The level will be determine based on the successful applicant's qualification, experience, and demonstrated skills during the interview process. See determining qualifications below.

Career Level Summary

Staff: Career -

• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience

• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions

• Works independently; receives minimal guidance

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

Senior: Specialist -

• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise

• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices

• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions

• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations

• May lead functional teams or projects

Key Responsibilities

Staff:

• 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.

Senior:

The Senior level will manage medium to large scale projects and will have the same responsibilities as the staff level with the addition of the following responsibilities:

• Program Development and Planning: Develops strategic plans when applicable; assesses and evaluates technologies and potential sites for construction projects; estimates for capital costs, operating and maintenance costs and performance for projects. Prepares project proposals for RFPs.

• Program/Project Management: Establishes formal project control processes; monitors and tracks activities to timely identify variances from baselines and takes appropriate corrective actions.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Certifications

• Staff: Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field. Typically, 5 or more years of experience in project management, construction management or engineering or a related field; utility experience highly preferred. PMP certification preferred.

• Senior: 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

Competencies

• Functional Competencies (Staff/Senior):

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge and skill in the application of project management principles, processes, and best practices.

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of the principles, concepts and methods used in T&D engineering, construction, and maintenance.

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of construction estimating, project risk management, project scope control and project communication management.

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of budget and resource forecasting principles and methods.

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of utility infrastructure.

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of work management systems, i.e., WMS and Maximo.

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of utility accounting, procurement, and budgeting.

• Advanced/Advanced knowledge of and skill in using MS Project, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

General Competencies:

• Intermediate/Advanced ability to manage stakeholders.

• Advanced analytical thinking skills.

• Intermediate/Advanced business acumen.

• Advanced business process interrelationships skills.

• Intermediate/Advanced conflict management skills.

• Advanced decision-making skills.

• Intermediate/Advanced negotiation skills.

• Advanced organization/prioritization skills.

• Advanced problem-solving skills.

• Intermediate/Advanced team-building skills.

• Advanced written/oral communication skills.

Physical, Schedule/Attendance and Cognitive Demands

Cognitive Level: Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).

Cognitive:

• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks

• Ability to follow accuracy standards

• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress

• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback

• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement

• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks

• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization

• Demonstrates sound memory

• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

Schedule/Attendance:

Ability to work long hours. Ability to work a variable schedule. Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather. Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance.

Physical Capabilities:

• Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Frequently (at least once a week or more)

• Driving/travel/commute: Overnight inside/outside the service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)

• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)

• Lifting/pushing/pulling: Up to 10lbs.

Environment- Indoor/Outdoor (check all that apply):

• Office

• Plant

• Field

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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.

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.

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