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About the Role
This position supports New York State Canal System capital improvement projects, focusing on heavy civil work for canal assets like dams and embankments. The role involves managing engineering projects, including coordination of personnel, safety, quality, scope, schedule, and budget under supervision.
Responsibilities
- Manage all stages of the project lifecycle from initiation through close out, ensuring deliverables comply with schedule.
- Own small to medium sized projects with some support and guidance.
- Manage and implement multiple projects and modifications concurrently.
- Partner and coordinate with in-house and external resources for all project activities.
- Ensure compliance with licensing, environmental, permitting, safety, code, and stakeholder requirements.
- Develop and manage design documents, specifications, project presentations, Trustee Items, funding requests, budgets, forecasts, and bid documents.
- Evaluate bid proposals and make award recommendations with guidance.
- Partner with Construction Engineers, Engineering, Customers, or Service Providers to develop/negotiate contract change orders, prepare invoices, and coordinate construction sequencing and site outages.
- Coordinate all field and design changes, and quality testing/inspections.
- Review and contribute to all project documentation, including drawings, technical specifications, assessment reports, asset and risk registry, budgets, forecasts, invoices, schedules, and variances.
- Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
- Provide supervision of maintenance department staff and contractors for assigned work and projects.
- Prepare and monitor the day-to-day work activities of crafts.
- Work with planners in scheduling work activities and oversee employee safety.
- Review job packages to ensure completeness and currency prior to work performance.
- Review completed work, job packages, and work orders to verify completion and data recording.
Requirements
- Basic competency 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.
- Collaborative and team-oriented with ability to build relationships with vendors and stakeholders.
- Ability to develop project plans, timelines, and work schedules.
- Ability to coordinate among customers, contractors, and permitting agencies.
- Familiarity with applicable codes, standards, regulations, project budgets, costs, project management software, and NYPA external stakeholders.
- Ability to perform basic engineering calculations.
- Ability to adapt standard specifications, scopes of work, reports, and design packages to specific projects.
- Approximately 25% travel primarily within NY State.
- Willingness to enter confined spaces and climb/scale power system apparatuses.
- Ability to travel to vendor facilities (worldwide) to support construction activities and inspect equipment fabrication and commissioning.
- Availability to work outside of normal business hours (including weekends) when project demands.
Skills
- Project Management
- Civil Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Task Management
- Design
- Construction Management
- Budget Management
- Schedule Management
- Quality Assurance
- Stakeholder Management
- Contract Negotiation
- Bid Evaluation
- Risk Management
- Team Leadership
Location
- New York State
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Minimum of 2 years of experience preferred in Project / Construction Management, preferably in the utility, commercial or related mechanical/electrical industries.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Energy Engineering or related field.
- New York State Engineer in Training (EIT) certification or ability to get one within 2 years preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- $83,000 - $114,400 (Upstate)
- $96,000 - $120,000 (Downstate)
Benefits
- Fair, competitive, and market-informed compensation.
About the Company
- The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Canal Corporation is committed to providing fair, competitive, and market-informed compensation.
- NYPA/Canals believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion drive our success.
- NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.
- NYPA/Canals proudly celebrates diversity and does 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- 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.