Project Manager (Electricity), Capital Project Delivery
About us
National Grid is hiring a Project Manager for our Workplan Development Team in Northboro, MA. This is a hybrid role that is based in the New England territory.
Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live.
The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.
Job Purpose
The Workplan Development Team is tasked with planning the electric transmission and distribution 10-year portfolio of work that delivers National Grid’s business plans to spend approximately $25B by 2036. The Team has proven to be a vital component of successfully delivering the capital work by determining resourcing assignments, providing overall workplan management, and supporting outage coordination across the portfolio.
This Project Manager in Workplan Development will work collaboratively within the Team to model and track engineering and design resources for our electrical capital and expense workplans. The successful candidate will develop reporting (via Power BI, Excel, etc.), utilizing Primavera P6 and SAP data sources to analyze resource commitments and constraints that support informed decision making. The reports will also support our engineering and design partners so they may plan workforce growth to deliver National Grid’s workplan. Another responsibility for the Project Manager is to maintain reporting for project bundling analysis that supports project delivery decisions for efficient sequencing of the right work at the right time in support of the 10-year business plan.
Key Accountabilities
- Support analysis of engineering and design resources by generating report(s) to analyze the portfolio of work.
- Develop complex reporting to aggregate Primavera P6 data to support engineering managers and other groups planning workforce.
- Enhance reports currently in use by the Workplan Development Team with the latest technology to make them more robust, timely, and effective.
- Maintain KPI dashboard(s) for Workplan Development and Engineering & Design Teams.
- Produce ad hoc reports based on data requests from groups outside Workplan Development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction/project management or project controls from an accredited institution required. 2+ years of related experience in addition preferred.
- Demonstrated high level of personal initiative, integrity, and ability to interact with company personnel and contractors.
- Must have Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
- Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI, and/or Procore experience a plus.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to manage large volumes of data.
- Experience with fact finding including knowledge and understanding of where to find and how to present relevant information in a supportive way when working with Workplan Development Team and other subject matter experts.
- Valid driver’s license required with a safe driving history that meets National Grid’s Safe Driver policy.
More Information
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Salary
$109,000- $128,000 a year
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