Manager Construction

Overview

Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, are regulated utilities serving over 1.3 million customers and consistently ranking among the best for customer service. LG&E serves 334,000 natural gas and 433,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties, while KU serves 569,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five Virginia counties. Both companies are major employers and active supporters of the communities they serve.

Responsibilities

• Supervises a team of direct and indirect reports on performing the constructability and outage coordination for all projects in the transmission portfolio.
• Researches, analyzes, and understands the scope of work for transmission line and substation projects, and develops a constructability assessment and execution strategy for inclusion into conceptual design to final design.
• Develops a Constructability Work Outage Sequence (CWOS) and identifies and provides any potential outage restrictions that may affect execution.
• Manages and updates outage sequencing as required throughout the project life-cycle.
• Works with other LKE functional groups such as Siting, Real Estate and Right of Way, Environmental, Engineering, and Transmission and Distribution Operations to identify and incorporate requirements in the project.
• Participates in field walk downs, design reviews, and site access/environmental reviews.
• Performs audits of project execution plans, constructability plans, and CWOS from Gate 1 through Gate 5 in the project life-cycle.
• Supports the development and maintenance of Project Management support policies, standards, and procedures necessary to produce the deliverables from the team and to collaborate effectively with the other teams.
• Assumes a leadership role in educating the business and technical community on construction, CWOS, and the constructability processes.
• Ensures investments are vetted and aligned with strategic objectives during the project development stage, and supports execution of strategically aligned projects as needed.
• Manages engineers to implement standards, best practices, and opportunities for system improvements with planned investments.
• Enhances decision-making capabilities by providing visibility to standards, fiber needs, procurement, financial requirements, and resource constraints.
• Ensures investments are vetted and aligned with strategic objectives during the project development stage, and supports execution of strategically aligned projects as needed.
• Team provides estimates for all transmission and substation projects throughout the lifecycle of the projects, always driving the team to consistently increase accuracy and drive costs down.
• Sets priorities to ensure task completion and coordinates work activities with other team members to ensure delivery dates are met.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, construction management, or a comparable degree; or an equivalent combination of education and experience on a year-for-year basis.
• Required Experience: 7+ years relevant experience.
• Strong written, oral, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated initiative and leadership skills.
• Working knowledge of critical-path-methodology, scheduling tools, and project budgets.