Project Manager, Interconnections (hybrid schedule)
Eversource · Westwood
Eversource will not offer immigration-related sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B, O-1, J-1, TN, E-3, etc.). Applicants requiring visa sponsorship to start employment with Eversource will not be considered.
Role and Scope of Position:The Project Manager (Customer Care) serves as lead of construction activities for all customer work including New Customer Connect Large Projects and DER/Solar Projects.
Essential Functions:
- Provide overall management of the project with knowledge & experience in all segments (overhead, substation, underground, TNVs, SNVs, SCs, and Customer Stations), including schedule and budget management.
- Advises project teams on progress and financial status for projects and/or other strategic objectives
- Develops and maintains construction schedules
- Provides support and updates to project teams and management as needed.
- Tracks internal activities and WO progression and ensures budget adherence
- Meets with customers on site and with internal resources as needed.
- Works with appropriate internal teams to ensure SLA's and timeline requirements are met.
- Attends work center plannings meetings
- Manages the invoicing and payments for projects
- Tracks all the equipment needed for the project
- Works with the Engineering Department’s Rights Team and Legal Department for Licenses and Easements
- Prepares and delivers presentations summarizing financial status and economics of projects
Technical Knowledge/Skill/Education/Licenses/Certifications:
Technical Knowledge/Skill:
a. Understanding of electrical utility infrastructure
- Overhead
- Underground
- Sub-Station
- TNVs
- SNVs
- Customer Stations
- SCs
b. Strong project management skill:
- Extensive skills including the ability to draw sound conclusions and act decisively
- Demonstrated safety professional
- Ability to see the “big picture” and be customer centric
- Strategic and tactical project management skills
- Be able to handle multiple projects of various degrees of complexity
- Strong detail orientation as well as the ability to be thorough and precise
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with various levels of the organization
- Team leadership and membership.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Strong functional understanding of computerized business systems.
- Demonstrated skill with applications (specifically Maximo, Power Track and PowerClerk, Omni, Adept, iTOA)
- Ability to multi-task and shift among multiple priorities simultaneously
- Ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical audiences through both written and spoken communications.
- Initiative and personal ownership.
- Thorough understanding of the Eversource organization
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or other closely related discipline required. MBA; other advanced degree; formal project management certification or completed coursework; or related professional designations are strongly preferred.
Experience:
- Minimum of five (5) or more years of progressively responsible hands-on experience that includes project-related management and experience with electrical infrastructure. Experience within a regulated environment highly preferred.
Licenses & Certifications:
- None
Working Conditions:
- Must be available to work emergency restoration assignment as required.
- Must be available to travel between MA/CT/NH as necessary.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands and fingers to operate, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
- The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.
Mental Aspects:
- N/A