ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the recruitment, development, training, retention and evaluating performance of the capital scheduling, cost, and resource team. This team may include any combination of full-time employees, contingent workers, and consultants.
• Lead and direct schedule management involving critical path method scheduling techniques, estimating, project cost management, forecasting and document control for multiple projects.
• Lead the development of effective scheduling reports and forecasts for multiple projects, and at the portfolio level.
• Act as subject matter expert in the Oracle Primavera P6 & Unifier environments.
• Act as E&C's designated administrator for Primavera P6 & Unifier. This includes E&C access administration, coordinating quarterly Oracle updates etc.
• Coordinate with Financial Project Controls with the development program dashboards.
• Responsible for E&C's Primavera P6 scheduling portfolio. This includes managing, maintaining, and revising schedule templates as required.
• Provide recommendation on schedule work arounds, mitigation efforts and resource leveling to Project Managers and project teams.
• Optimize E&C's project schedule and program schedule reporting.
• Participate in the E&C PMO review and approval of contract & purchase order change orders.
• Collaborate with Financial Project Controls and projects teams, providing project and program expenditure trending and deviation insight.
• Serve as liaison between E&C, the E&C PMO and Tri-State's financial project controls group.
• Validate and analyze financial reporting generated in the financial project controls group. Reports may include, but are not limited to monthly financial status reports, cash flow reports, project health reports, project baseline reports, and variance reports, earned value management reports.
• Coordinate with the financial project controls group with the development and refinement of financial project/program metrics.
• Oversee the risk management process by identifying and mitigating risk potentials at both the project and portfolio levels. Advise the E&C PMO on risk and contingency analysis.
• Lead Project Forensic Analysis. These may include, but are not limited to contractor cost/schedule/change performance, construction resource evaluation, labor resource evaluation, budget performance, etc.
• Assist project managers with the optimization project portfolios for capital projects identified primarily by E&C, but may include Transmission Systems Support, Planning, Operations and Maintenance projects as well. These will include both capital and O&M to optimize outage windows, construction contracts, material purchases, and joint projects.
• Serve as point of contact and coordinate with the E&C management and staff on project, cost, budget, schedule, and resource related issues.
• Develop and recommend guidelines, tools, and processes for project schedule, cost & resource management at both the project and portfolio level.
• Participate with other related business units in developing the annual E&C capital program budget; working with financial project controls, and appropriate E&C staff to provide updates as required for cash flow and variance reporting.
• Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures and attain knowledge and remain knowledgeable of regulations, laws, standards, and best practices applicable to functional area.
• Because Tri-State has an obligation to provide continuous, reliable electric service to its customers, the ability to work overtime at any time of the day or week is considered an essential function of the job.

OTHER DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as subject matter expert on change management.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

SUCCESS FACTORS/JOB COMPETENCIES:

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to guide, direct and influence technical and non-technical people.
• Planning: Responsible for planning the work of the capital scheduling, cost, and resource team staff; must establish priorities and ensure deadlines are met; directs the work of others and ensures quality of work.
• Management/Supervision: Strong ability to organize and manage multiple priorities and assign staff while balancing the workload.
• Problem identification, analysis and resolution, at both strategic and functional levels, are primary responsibilities of this position.
• Strong risk identification and development of risk mitigation measures.
• Strategic vision and leadership: Employee is required to have the ability to develop innovative and creative solutions to complex problems and to guide the strategic direction of cross-organizational teams to ensure E&C and Tri-State G&T business needs are met.
• Demonstrate behavior consistent with company values.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are a basic requirement, together with an excellent written skill set.
• The employee needs to be a strong team leader and have the ability to successfully interact with diverse groups.

REQUIRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Training:

• BS/BA in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of experience and education.

Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:

• Extensive knowledge of Oracle Primavera P6 and Unifier, or willingness to undergo extensive training.
• Knowledge of cost and resource loaded Primavera P6 schedules.
• Knowledge of transmission and generation facilities, functions, and typical applications.
• Knowledge of MS Project and other project management software applications is preferred.
• General knowledge of power system planning, environmental, permitting, engineering, operations, contracting and construction disciplines as they apply to electric utility power transmission and generation projects.
• Knowledge of general requirements for funding of power transmission and generation capital additions and improvements.
• Experience in the negotiation and/or execution of transmission power system contracts, member contracts and agreements, construction and procurement contracts and change orders.
• Working knowledge of interconnected transmission systems and electric utility industry standards, practices, and regulations.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships both internal and external.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbal and written.
• Advanced experience with the Microsoft Office suite, expert knowledge in MS Excel.
• Ability/Aptitude to stay current with enterprise software.
• Willingness to travel as required.
• Must be able to demonstrate the performance of all the essential functions of the position.

Experience

• Ten (10) years of total professional experience in project management, engineering, scheduling, and/or project controls, or a similar field preferably in the electric utility industry.
• Five (5) years of formal project controls experience, with a strong preference for experience in the electric utility industry.
• Experience and knowledge of transmission and generation facilities, project and program management, and project controls techniques.

Other:

• Must be willing to travel as needed. Must possess a valid driver's license.

DESIRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong preference will be given for experience with project controls techniques as applied to electric power transmission and generation projects, including appropriate controls for managing projects across a large portfolio of projects.
• Prior management experience.
• Knowledge of FERC procedures and regulations.
• Knowledge of electric utility resource analysis and balancing across a large portfolio of projects.
• Understanding contract analysis and negotiation as related to power transactions.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is normally working in an office environment and will occasionally be required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, bend, climb stairs, and possibly need to reach above and below shoulder level and push/pull objects of varying weights, and lift up to fifty pounds.

Mental demands: While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is required to read, write, perform math at a level required to prepare, review and analyze related complex and/or engineering calculations associated with power utility transmission capital construction projects, analyze data and reports, exercise judgment, develop plans, procedures and goals, direct others, present information to others and work under pressure.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this position, the employee will occasionally be exposed to weather conditions, which can be extreme. Duties are normally performed indoors. Outdoor conditions may include working at remote sites without restroom facilities, running water for drinking or washing, food convenience stores, emergency services, communications or cell phone service, or fuel for vehicle.