United Utility Corporation

Senior Project Manager - Transmission

East Berlin, CT

About This Job

About Us

Welcome to United Utility, a dynamic player in the electric utility industry, headquartered in the vibrant city of New Orleans, LA. As a trailblazer, we provide comprehensive and innovative offerings that bolster power infrastructure investments across the U.S. We proudly serve as the parent company to industry-leading utility service contractors specializing in transmission, substation, distribution, and grid hardening projects. At United Utility, we craft power delivery solutions – built safe, engineered smart, and driven by what customers demand – fueling communities with reliable energy.

About The Role

This is a hybrid role. This position provides overall management of the project with knowledge and experience in all segments in including overhead, substation and underground. Also including schedule and budget management. Program management of portfolio for the Ma regio, including project status and reporting management as well as financial reporting management, current year target setting and monthly progress for current year and long range plan.

Key Responsibilities

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Will be assigned to new proposed Station buildouts as part of the ESMP (Electric Sector Modernization Plan). This includes new substation, distribution line, transmission line development and future construction.

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Provide high level project management overview, expertise, and direction.

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Provide overall management of the project with knowledge & experience in all segments (overhead, substation, and underground), including schedule and budget management.

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Measures the effectiveness of current state of processes, systems, etc. as well as benefits gained through implemented enhancements.

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Familiar with Design Development / Progression (Scope Definition, Conceptual, Prelim, Detailed, IFC).

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Experience w/being a sub-contractor or working w/sub-contractors.

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Leads cross functional teams on complex process improvement engagements.

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Identities issues, root causes, strategies for improvement and development of implementation and sustainment plans.

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Develops a summary of findings, recommendations, and action plans for management to review and approve.

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Effectively applies various continuous improvement tools and operating discipline to drive assigned initiatives to positive outcomes.

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Effectively manages assigned process improvement initiatives; scope, resources, schedules, implementation and measurables.

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Develops and maintains tools, applications, and systems critical to the process improvement initiatives.

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Develops tools and leverages technology to share relevant information with all stakeholders so business units can learn from process defects, reduce likelihood of future reoccurrence, and improve the mindset of personnel involved in the process.

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Develop action plans and processes, in coordination with key stakeholders and subject matter experts, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives.

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Analyzes the needs of an organization and collaborates with key process stakeholders to recommend and implement effective tools and technology in support of innovation and process improvements.

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Ability to performs application configuration and system administration activities for applications and systems within our organization.

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Engages with the user community to build consistent and repeatable processes that effectively leverage the applications capabilities.

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Identifies manual processes that can be automated and the works with the stakeholders to select the appropriate toolset.

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Develops new tools and applications for our internal customers.

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Facilitates and performs the testing and roll-out of updated features and functions for applications.

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Adept at building relationships to push projects along.

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Ability to influence without direct authority.

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Expertise and working knowledge of process improvement methods, internal controls implementation, change management leadership, and root cause analysis techniques.

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Self-motivated and goal oriented; ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

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Willingness to learn about and integrate new process and technologies while, when applicable, breaking old paradigms and barriers.

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Strong facilitation, and communication skills (including written, oral, and public speaking) required.

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Demonstrated strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

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Ability to effectively communicate and interact with stakeholders at all levels of authority.

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Demonstrated aptitude and curiosity for learning and implementing new tools and technology.

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Education: A bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, or equivalent work experience.

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20+ years experience.

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Experience in Overhead, Substation and Underground.

Key Nice-To-Haves

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Engineering Degree

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Experience with Substation design and construction

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Email: HRSC@unitedutility.com

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