As an integral Project Manager, you will possess experience with Electric Utility engineering projects as you provide support to the process, procedures and documentation for all assigned projects. The PM will identify risks and mitigation tactics on projects as well as drive profitability, quality, and schedule of the substation design projects. The Project Manager will interface with key cross-functional groups (Section Leads, CAD, Financing, etc.), as well as have direct interface with our customers and clients.
This role is key as it is a NEW and upcoming area with immense opportunity for you, the team and territory! Bring your transmission, substation, and distribution engineering skills to help us grow today.
What you will do:
- Lead project resource teams assigned to support projects
- Client Interfacing with multiple group organizations
- Maintain positive working relationships between the client and prime consultants.
- Provide documented scope, schedule, deliverables, and budgets
- Provide progress reports, project milestones, scope changes, budget forecasting/analysis, and schedule updates to the team
- Monitor cost accounting, invoicing, and close out of projects
- Ability to manage / lead several simultaneous projects
- Proposal write up / reviews
- Write / Review Change Orders
- Work with team to ensure all required deliverables are prepared, submitted, and tracked.
- Work with our finance group to ensure all invoicing requirements and backup information are set up accordingly
- Coordinate with finance group to confirm invoicing and receiving payments on a timely basis
- In charge of QA/QC on your projects
- Manage Quality, Schedule, and Budget
- Provide project status information to the Managers and team
- Manage Project Budgets along with Project Management
- Available to Travel 10% - 20%
Your background/experience:
- Experience with large utilities such as FirstEnergy, Exelon, Southern Company and alike
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a minimum of 7 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and demonstrable experience.
- Highly advantageous is experience working with clients in the utility arena
- Experience leading cross-disciplinary design projects
- Ability to support internal and external customers
- Ability to diffuse problematic situations with internal and external customers
- Ability to perform work to the specified quality, on time and budget
- Manage and track scope increases
- Ability to plan, estimate and schedule substation projects
- Ability to support proposal activities
Why Milhouse?
- Entrepreneurial environment with exposure to our empowering Executive team.
- Encouraging, warm, and dynamic workplace with the opportunity to grow and develop.
- Various socials throughout the year.
- Competitive pay and benefits package.
- Milhouse University, a learning and developmental tool to up skill yourself in a class room style environment, virtual learning, or self paced online tutorials.
Why join the Power team? Here's why:
The Power team is home to a collaborative environment that utilizes talent from all departments with Power. Just within the past year the Power team has doubled, proving that there are incredible growth opportunities available for self-starters.
Here's a little information on Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc.:
Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc. was founded in 2001 with the goal of building the best engineering company in the country. It was based on the belief that if we hired great people, fueled their passion while challenging them to excel, and maintained a laser focus on the needs of your clients, success would come- and so it has. Our portfolio of successful projects continues to grow, our family of highly satisfied clients continues to expand, and our staff just gets better and better.
We are a unique, Chicago-based firm whose collective passion, vision and expertise has led to phenomenal growth! With more than 500+ talented professionals and offices across the globe, Milhouse offers a dynamic work environment where there is no limit to what you can achieve if you are willing to go after it.
Our people are the cornerstone of our organization, and key to our success. Join a remarkably talented team that shares a passion for what they do and a vision for improving communities around the world through innovative engineering and construction.
Click here to see who we are, and how our people drive our culture each & every day.
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Important Notice to US Applicants
Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc. is an at-will employer.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Benefits List:
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short Term Disability Insurance
401(k) Plan
Transit Benefits Program
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Employee Education & Development Program
Paid Holidays
Employee Referral Program
Wellness Program
Employee Recognition Program
Lunch and Learns
Milhouse University Classes (Cross Functional Training)
Higher Level Professional Development/Certification support
Paid Maternity and Paternity leave (plus incentives to support you in your first year of parenthood)
