Sr Work Planner

Exelon Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 83,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 15%

401(k) match

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Generous paid time off and parental/le

Employee Assistance Program

Wellbeing programs and tuition support

Job summary

Exelon Corporation is seeking a senior-level planning and analytics leader to oversee regional planners and drive data-driven decision making. You will develop work plans, monitor progress against SLAs, and report indicators to senior management; manage budgets while upholding safety and quality standards.

Ideal candidates have a business or engineering background with 4–7 years in the utility sector, strong analytical abilities, and excellent communication skills to coordinate across multiple

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering required.
• 4–7 years in a utility company business unit or equivalent external experience.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with common business tools.
• Excellent written and oral communication; ability to handle multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Leads and motivates regional planners; conducts yearly performance reviews.
• Guides planners to meet timelines, commitments, and SLAs; ensures quality work packages.
• Develops and directs the regional planning model aligned with the cycle plan.
• Monitors work plans, communicates with management to identify risks, plan contingencies.
• Facilitates cross-functional coordination to ensure safe work performance and budget oversight.
• Provides weekly, monthly and annual performance indicators to leadership.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project management

Negotiation & conflict management

Under pressure

Accountability & results

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering

Tools

Access

Excel

Word

Passport

Job description

Who We Are

Exelon is helping build a more affordable, reliable energy future for the communities we serve. We're looking for people who are ready to make a difference and work together to deliver the energy our customers count on every day.

As a Fortune 200 company and one of the nation's largest utility companies, we have more than 20,000 colleagues who serve nearly 11 million customers through six fully regulated utilities - Atlantic City Electric (ACE), Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), Delmarva Power & Light (DPL), PECO Energy Company (PECO), and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco).

Exelon is built by people who put safety first, work together to solve problems and show up every day for our customers and communities. We believe strong teams are built on trust, respect and a shared commitment to high-performance culture. And our commitment to employees includes creating an environment where people can grow, develop new skills and build thriving careers.

We know this work isn't easy. That's why we offer competitive compensation, incentives, excellent benefits and the opportunity to build a rewarding career. No matter your role, you will be part of a team that is committed to making a difference, improving how we work and delivering for the people who depend on us.

Are you on for the challenge?

Primary Purpose

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION

Provide development and oversight of the work plan. Responsible for development and reporting of indicators to track the success of regional planners. Proactively monitors work planning, ensures quality and standard of work packages, daily communication with Work Management, ensures local planners make changes as needed to support the cycle plan and provide supervisors with standardized work packages. Provide analysis and assist in developing recommendations to senior management to enable fact-based strategic decision-making. Specific to Customer Field and Meter Services Provide development and oversight of the work plan. Responsible for development and reporting of indicators to track the success of regional planners, proactively monitors work planning, communicates with outside department on departmental prioritization, and project manages workflow issues. Provide analysis and assist in developing recommendations to senior management to enable fact-based strategic decision-making. Position may be required to work extended hours for coverage during storms or other energy delivery emergencies.

Primary Duties

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Leads, directs and provides motivation for regional planners. Responsible for the yearly performance review of the regional planners. Works directly with and assists the Regional Work Control Manager. (20%)
• Assumes a lead role to provide support, analysis, and guidance to the work planners to ensure that proper timelines, appointments, commitments, and Service Level Agreements are met. (20%)
• Develops and directs the planning model of Work Management Process for the region in alignment with the cycle plan (including coordination and input from the regionalized planners). (20%)
• Assumes a lead role to provide support, analysis, and guidance to the work planners to ensure that proper timelines and standards are met. (20%)
• Proactively monitors work plans and key initiatives, communicates on a daily basis with the Field and Meter Service Management Team and regionalized work planners to identify risks and plan for contingencies to maintain the cycle plan. (20%)
• Accountable for ensuring effective financial task accounting. Responsible for monitoring operating and capital budget for areas, and ensuring safe work performance. (20%)
• Proactively monitors work plans and key initiatives, communicates on a daily basis with the Regional Work Control Manager and regionalized work planners to identify risks and plan for contingencies to maintain the cycle plan. (20%)
• Accountable for ensuring effective financial task accounting. Responsible for monitoring operating and capital budget for areas, and ensuring safe work performance. (10%)
• Establish and maintain a safe work environment for subordinates within the department (10%)
• Provides accurate weekly, monthly and annual performance indicators for the Regional Director. (10%)
• Provides accurate weekly, monthly and annual performance indicators for the Regional Director.Leads, directs and provides motivation for regional planners. Responsible for the yearly performance review of the regional planners. Communicates with the Regional Field Managers.

Job Scope

JOB SCOPE

Maintain internal communication with the Work Control Coordinators, Work Week Managers and the Schedulers Maintain external relationships with the First Line Supervisors, Area Maintenance Engineers and Design Engineers Actions have direct impact on the utility company reliability and customer satisfaction goals, the revenue stream of utility company and Exelon, the public, political and regulatory opinion of utility company. Specific to Customer Field and Meter Services Maintain internal communication with the Director, Regional Field Managers, and other Customer Operations key managers requesting escalated scheduling of field orders. Maintain external relationships with the First Line Supervisors. Actions have direct impact on the utility company reliability and customer satisfaction goals, the revenue stream of utility company and Exelon, the public, political and regulatory opinion of the utility company.

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering AND 4-7 years' experience in utility company business unit or equivalent external experience, or in lieu of bachelor's degree, a minimum of 6-9 years' experience in utility company business unit or equivalent external experience
• For ComEd T&S Only: Employee will be required to successfully pass a comprehensive T&S Training Program. Failure to pass training classes with adequate scores will be subject to the Loss of Employment Policy HR -AC-20.
• Strong analytical skills in measurement frameworks, tools, approaches and techniques
• Proficient in Access, Excel, Word, and Passport
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives and projects while maintaining proper focus on major tactical and strategic initiatives
• Ability to perform under pressure and/or opposition
• Advanced skills in problem solving, negotiation, and conflict management
• Demonstrates proficiency in utility company competencies: Drives for Accountability and Achieves Results Fosters Teamwork and Collaboration Applies Continuous Learning and Improvement Sustains High Performance in Ambiguous Situations Promotes Diversity Creates Competitive Advantage

Preferred Qualifications

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering

Benefits

• Annual salary will vary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and other factors: $83,200.00/Yr. – $114,400.00/Yr.
• Annual Bonus for eligible positions: 15%
• 401(k) match and annual company contribution
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
• Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance and fitness reimbursement
• Referral bonus program
• And much more

Note: Exelon-sponsored compensation and benefit programs may vary or not apply based on length of service, job grade, job classification or represented status. Eligibility will be determined by the written plan or program documents.