Project Manager - Program Management

About This Role

Project managers at Burns & McDonnell are key to the informal leadership structure, mentoring junior staff and leading multi-disciplinary teams on complex projects. In the program management organization, project managers support the overall development of project management capabilities through functional leadership of day-to-day task execution. They may lead specific functional areas within a larger program or manage an entire smaller program, working directly with clients to provide a premier experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout
• Oversee 5-20 projects concurrently of varying sizes ($100k-$50M) and voltages (4kV-765kV)
• Manage projects for schedule adherence, identifying risks and requirements to successfully achieve a project’s in-service date
• Navigate projects through client gate approval processes, including presentations to senior and executive management as required by each client
• Manage projects for financial adherence, maintaining an accurate cost forecast reflecting committed and uncommitted costs for an estimate-at-completion
• Coordinate craft labor resources with client-approved vendors for construction, testing, and other field activities
• Provide regular status updates on projects by maintaining project data and routine reporting, as well as meeting updates for clients
• Lead project meetings with cost, schedule, real estate, environmental, construction, and engineering resources to facilitate project execution
• Develop a multi-year capital expenditure plan to support client’s replacement and betterment of electric transmission and distribution assets
• Interface and coordinate regularly with project sponsor organizations to determine details of proposed plans and business justification
• Ensure synergies across projects are incorporated into the portfolio of work to prevent scope from being duplicated or performed inefficiently
• Monitor composition of client’s capital investment allocation to align with stated subsidiary investment targets for optimal rate of return
• Engage with project sponsors to evaluate need-by date for realistic schedules and budgets
• Assist with creation and compilation of rate filing support for federal and state filings
• Review tabletop engineering estimates for accuracy and scope
• Review project change requests (scope, In-service date, etc.) and reconcile with the existing and long-range portfolio of work
• Interface with client’s accounting group to establish financial setup for projects
• Create analyses & reports

About the Company

Burns & McDonnell is a market leader in providing program management services to the electric utility industry, assisting clients with capital investment in the energy delivery market.