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About the Role

Organizes project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, develops project schedules, and determines resource requirements. Monitors and reports on project status, including cost, timing, and staffing, ensuring adherence to quality standards. Manages complex engineering projects, including personnel, safety, quality, scope, schedule, and budget, to achieve successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities

Manages all stages of the project lifecycle from initiation through close out for highly complex projects and/or programs, ensuring deliverables are received in compliance with schedule.
Owns large-sized projects with minimal support.
Manages and implements multiple projects and modifications concurrently.
Oversees and coordinates all in-house and external resources for project activities.
Ensures applicable licensing, environmental, permitting, safety, code compliance, construction, and stakeholder requirements are incorporated into the project, especially during the initiation and design phases.
Develops and manages design documents/specifications, project presentations, Trustee Items, project funding requests, budgets, forecasts, bid documents, evaluates bid proposals, and makes award recommendations.
Partners with Construction Engineers, Engineering, Customers, or Service Providers in developing/negotiating contract change orders, preparing invoices, and coordinating construction sequencing and site outages.
Coordinates all field and design changes and quality testing/inspections.
Reviews and contributes to all project documentation, including drawings, technical specifications, assessment reports, asset and risk registry, budgets, forecasts, invoices, and schedules.
Performs occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
Supports and guides/mentors lower-level Project Engineer(s).
Provides supervision of maintenance department staff and contractors for assigned work and projects.
Prepares and monitors the day-to-day work activities of the crafts.
Works with planners in scheduling work activities and oversees employee safety.
Reviews job packages to ensure completeness and currency prior to work performance.
Reviews completed work, job packages, and work orders to verify all steps are complete and all data/information is recorded.

Requirements

Proficient in project management of electrical, mechanical, structural, and/or water projects specific to the electric utility, canal/waterways, building systems, distributed energy resource, and/or electric vehicle industries.
Proven success in the management of technical and commercial aspects of large projects and programs.
Collaborative and team-oriented with the ability to build relationships with vendors and stakeholders.
Ability to develop project plans, timelines, and work schedules.
Ability to coordinate among customers, contractors, permitting agencies, etc.
Significant experience with applicable codes, standards, regulations, project budgets, costs, project management software, and NYPA external stakeholders.
Ability to perform engineering calculations and complete specifications, scopes of work, reports, and interdisciplinary design packages.

Skills

Project Management
Electrical Project Management
Mechanical Project Management
Structural Project Management
Water Project Management
Utility Industry Knowledge
Canal/Waterways Knowledge
Building Systems Knowledge
Distributed Energy Resource Knowledge
Electric Vehicle Industry Knowledge
Technical Project Management
Commercial Project Management
Stakeholder Relationship Building
Vendor Relationship Building
Project Planning
Timeline Development
Work Schedule Coordination
Customer Coordination
Contractor Coordination
Permitting Agency Coordination
Code Compliance
Standard Compliance
Regulation Compliance
Budget Management
Cost Management
Project Management Software Proficiency
Engineering Calculations
Specification Development
Scope of Work Development
Report Writing
Interdisciplinary Design Package Development

Location

NY State

Work Type

Full-time
Onsite
Travel

Experience Level

Minimum of 6 years’ experience
Minimum of 3 years of experience in Project / Construction Management

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Energy Engineering or related field.

Salary/Compensations

$129,000 - $161,000

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Market-informed compensation

About the Company

The New York Power Authority is committed to providing fair, competitive, and market-informed compensation.
The New York Power Authority and Canal Corporation believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion drive our success.
As an equal opportunity employer, NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.

Equal Opportunity

We encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents and veterans to apply.
We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color, creed/religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, military status, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy and related conditions, familial/marital status, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns.