Generation Construction Manager

At Cleco, we're not just powering lives—we're powering a cleaner, smarter future for Louisiana.

With bold investments in innovative energy solutions, we’re transforming how we power our communities: smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable. This is a long-term commitment to our people and our communities because our future—and the future of generations to come—depends on it. If you're ready to make an impact where it matters most, join us at Cleco—

where we're Energizing Your Tomorrow.

The

Generation Construction Manager

is a career-level professional with experience in construction management, emphasizing safety, quality, logistics, and field operations. This role primarily involves supervising construction contractors on capital projects within power plants and coordinating all field aspects to ensure successful project execution. The Construction Manager collaborates with the project team to achieve scope objectives, report out-of-scope work, and provide status updates. Additionally, this position works closely with project controls and schedulers to maintain accurate cost and schedule tracking.

Key Responsibilities

- Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, and operational excellence.

- Coordinates, oversees, and expedites the construction and procedural field activities on plant capital improvement projects to ensure safety and quality while meeting the defined budget, schedule, and project objectives.

- Provides technical execution of defined activities to support the delivery of project initiatives required to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation objectives.

- Provides periodic reporting of projects utilizing project management scheduling programs, costs vs. budget spreadsheets, and verifies invoices for cost and project accounting codes.

- Produces and distributes final as-built drawings, and documentation to accurately represent the final implementation of the projects and maintain the integrity and availability for use of all records.

- Prepares and provides support assistance to project team in preparation of, documents, data, drawings, and computer work associated with the preparation of technical specifications of both procuring equipment and services on operations, maintenance, and construction projects.

- Provides technical assistance to help development, analysis, and/or justification of internal and external projects.

- Organizes data and detailed recordkeeping.

- Utilizes engineering standards, procedures, and processes, providing recommendations for process improvements, as necessary.

- Supervises and directs contractors as required to ensure quality field work and the work is performed safely as scheduled.

- With knowledge of construction and O&M procedures, works with many plant departments and other LOB’s to meet common goals.

- Responds to plant schedules and project construction activity requirements by adjusting workload priorities on multiple projects.

- Provides communication to their manager, stakeholders, and project team to provide status updates on project activities, and identify risks in delivery or resourcing needs.

- Decisions impact the immediate department and are governed by standardized work routines that permit the use of initiative.

- Works within a defined budget, schedule, and project objectives.

- Has technical knowledge of construction methods, plant operations, instrumentation, cycle thermodynamics, CADD & scheduling programs.

- Considers future implications beyond the immediate problem, and is not closely supervised

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering (preferred) or a related technical field or an equivalent of 5+ years of related experience in construction management - 3-5+ years of related experience

- Knowledge of leading practices of their practice area

- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job

- Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment and presenting ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner

- Progression to this level is strictly restricted based on critical individual capabilities and business requirements; must be supported by market survey data.

Licenses and Certifications

- FE preferred

- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar is preferred

Key Competencies

BEHAVIORAL

- Building Partnerships

- Leading Teams

- Business Acumen

- Communication

- Courage

- Building Self-Insight

- Driving for Results

- Energizing the Organization

- Driving Execution

- Building Trusting Relationships

- Driving Innovation

- Planning and Organizing

- Safety

- Establishing Strategic Direction

TECHNICAL

- Analytical skills

- Compliance

May perform other duties as assigned.