Project Manager III-Substation

Pike Corporation; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

United Grid Solutions is seeking a Project Manager III to oversee on-time delivery of complex projects, ensuring quality workmanship for clients. You will lead cross-functional teams, coordinate with engineers, procurement, controls, finance, and BD to ensure project success.

The role emphasizes adherence to scope, schedule, quality, and cost, with accountability for safety, assets, and client relations. PMP certification is recommended and travel to client sites may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or other relevant discipline.
• High school degree or GED.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and direct project workflow with all stakeholders.
• Communicate project status to management and stakeholders.
• Develop project specifications and implement practices to achieve objectives.
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Meet all project schedules.
• Utilize project resources efficiently.
• Provide leadership to project team and manage multiple tasks.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Negotiation

Verbal/written communication

Budget management

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or relevant discipline

High school degree or GED

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Project

Teams

Job description

SUMMARY

The Project Manager III is responsible for on-time delivery of all assigned projects, ensuring quality workmanship to the client. Responsibility includes the efficient utilization of United Grid Solution resources to enhance the return on investment of these resources.

The primary responsibility of this role is to deliver projects within defined scope, schedule, quality, and cost parameters acceptable to both the client and the company. The Project Manager III has full accountability for the overall operation of assigned projects/contracts, including employee safety and well-being, protection of company assets, stewardship of company funds, and representation of the company to clients.

This role is expected to ensure projects are completed in compliance with contractual requirements, company standards, and regulatory obligations while maintaining and strengthening client relationships to support future business opportunities.

The individual will work collaboratively with internal and external project managers, discipline engineers, procurement, project controls, finance personnel, and business development teams to ensure successful project performance.

This role requires an appropriate combination of education, experience, technical expertise, and leadership capability commensurate with the project’s financial risk and complexity. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is recommended.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate and direct project workflow for internal and external initiatives with all stakeholders
• Communicate project status to management and stakeholders
• Develop project specifications and implement practices which will achieve defined objectives to the satisfaction of stakeholders and management
• Maintain all confidence regarding highly sensitive and proprietary information
• Maintain expected levels of quality control
• Meet all project schedules
• Utilize project resources efficiently
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
• Ability to proactively identify potential project problems or opportunities, analyze the issues using all appropriate resources, develop alternatives, and arrive at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities.
• Clearly understands scope of work and contract requirements for his/her area of responsibility.
• Supports or conducts formal presentations to clients and/or management.
• Maintains consistent communication with management on key project issues, potential client issues and approach to resolutions.
• Demonstrates command of the schedule goals, key milestones, and approach to the work embodied in the schedule.
• Builds client confidence and nurtures positive client relationships.
• May serve as a Proposal Manager for medium-to-large-sized projects.
• Travel to Customer offices and job sites as required.
• Identifies and ensures compliance with regulatory, licensing and state requirements.
• Develops plan to support procurement of all engineered items to be purchased for project in conjunction with the project procurement manager.
• Coordinates development of work-hour estimates and transfers information to Project Controls for preparation of engineering cost estimate.
• Conduct internal meetings with department leads/managers and external meetings with client and any relevant stakeholders.
• Works with Business Development in developing proposals and presenting company capabilities to enhance success in meeting new business objectives.

COMPLEXITY OF WORK

Semi-routine; majority of work covered by established procedures.

RELATIONS OUTSIDE WORKGROUP

Influences decisions of major nature. High degree of tact and diplomacy to obtain favorable decisions or maintain good will.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

May assist lower-level Project Manager or APM with their projects, as needed. Provides project-level oversight to assigned discipline leads.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Regular Regulatory is required.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Required: High school degree or GED.

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or other relevant discipline.

Required: Understanding of substation electrical engineering, transmission line engineering or project management experience in the energy industry.

Preferred substation experience with substation system protections.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

Minimum of 12 Year(s) experience in engineering, construction, project controls, project management and/or procurement experience. Proven performance as a Project Manager on complex projects and demonstrated ability to serve as the highest-level project lead.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred.

Professional Engineer (PE) is preferred

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to write reports, Business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to compute rate, ratios, and percent and to draw and interpret spreadsheets.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret spread sheets.

READING ABILITY

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to define problems collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Excellent organizational and planning skills
• Demonstrated negotiating and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated skills in providing leadership, motivation, vision, and direction to project team
• Strategic thinking and ability to identify business improvement opportunities
• Communicate and work with senior management
• Demonstrated skills in verbal/written communications
• Demonstrated management and business skills
• High energy level with the ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
• Proven success in developing and maintaining relationships
• High commitment to achieving goals and plans
• Able to manage multiple tasks and provide leadership to other team members.
• MS Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, and Teams)
• Provide multi-disciplinary team leadership
• Budget management and financial strategy
• Strong communication skills with Clients and Client team members
• Proactive approach to anticipate or offer support to Client needs

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

1. Stand: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
2. Walk: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
3. Sit: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
4. Talk or Hear: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
5. Use Hands to Feel or Handle tools or controls: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
6. Climb or balance: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
7. Stoop, Kneel, Crouch or crawl: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
8. Reach with Hands and Arms: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
9. Taste or Smell: None

WEIGHT LIFTING

1. Up to 10 Pounds: 1/3 to 2/3
2. Up to 25 Pounds: Up to 1/3
3. Up to 50 Pounds: None
4. Up to 100 Pounds: None
5. More than 100 Pounds: None

VISION REQUIREMENTS

1. Close Vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
2. Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
3. Color Vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
4. Peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
5. Depth Perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)
6. Ability to Adjust Focus (ability to adjust the eyes to bring an object into sharp focus)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Wet, humid conditions (non-weather): Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Work near moving mechanical parts: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Work in high, precarious places: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Fumes or airborne particles: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Toxic or caustic chemicals: None
• Outdoor weather conditions: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Extreme cold (non-weather): None
• Extreme Heat (non-weather): Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Risk of electrical shock: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Work with explosives: None
• Risk of radiation: None
• Vibration: None

While performing this job, the noise level in the work environment is: Moderate Noise (Examples: business office with typewriters, and or computer printer, light traffic)

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

United Grid Solutions is an equal opportunity employer.

EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled

United Grid Solutions is a Non-Union Company