Senior Operations Manager, Utility Construction & Projects

M.J. Electric, LLC; Chesterton (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid Holidays and PTO

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account

Accident Insurance

Hospital Indemnity Insurance

Critical Illness Insurance

Lifelock Identity Theft Protection

Employee Discounts

Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

Job summary

M. J. Electric, LLC is hiring an Operations Manager to oversee overhead transmission, distribution line and substation construction maintenance.

You will coordinate crews with Project Managers and customers, manage budgets, and ensure safety leadership across projects. The role requires extensive experience in utility construction, strong analytical and financial skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects across a large geographic area.

Qualifications

• Extensive project management experience on complex utility construction projects.
• Ability to analyze complex information and make decisions.
• Knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Project Managers and customers to assure crews and contractors are coordinated to work efficiently and meet contracting requirements, budgets, forecasts and schedules. Ensures that barriers to construction progress are removed in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate safety leadership by supporting the implementation and management of the MJE Safety Management System.
• Assist Project Managers with project scope development and project authorization through completion.
• Ensure that MJE Senior Management and Joint Venture Management is kept current on the progress of construction projects, business opportunities and industry trends.
• Systematically and regularly appraise and evaluate project progress against established goals, timelines and objectives. Provide assistance to Project Managers to correct deficiencies in these areas.
• Understand critical design requirements of on-going projects and continuously monitor construction quality to ensure compliance within established tolerances.
• Promote and develop common systems and processes to provide for proper accounting, reporting of project costs, customer billing, scheduling, material procurement, record keeping, documentation and budgeting by Project Managers.
• Interface with key customers to ensure that construction activities in affected areas are communicated and understood.
• Coordinates and directs the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts, institutes and maintains other planning and control procedures (including the cost accounting system), and analyzes and reports variances.

Skills

Project management

Decision making

Financial reporting

Construction experience

Multi-project oversight

Education

Construction Management

Electrical Engineering

Accounting

Business Administration

Job description

M. J. Electric, LLC is hiring an Operations Manager to oversee overhead transmission, distribution line and substation construction maintenance.

You will coordinate crews with Project Managers and customers, manage budgets, and ensure safety leadership across projects. The role requires extensive experience in utility construction, strong analytical and financial skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects across a large geographic area.