Project Management Area Lead - Power Delivery
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections have content.
From posting:
- About the role: The description includes overview of role, responsibilities, etc. Could be "About the role" section summarizing the role description.
- Responsibilities: Many bullet points about duties: Provide PM leadership, serve as SME, support recruiting, monitor retention, oversee employee review, perform reviews, summarize recommendations, support mentoring, participate in training, support PE to PM plans, develop strategies to engage stakeholders, provide guidance with pursuit/initiation activities, may lead contract T&Cs negotiations, drive internal risk review, drive technical review, provide inputs to multi-disciplinary teams, manage performance guidance, ensure updates occur with system and process documentation, lead project kick-off meetings, coordinate with area/technical managers, maintain regular communications with client, participate in problem project reviews, assist with developing recovery plans, ensure regular project reporting, complete formal project closeout, collaborate with professionals, exercise responsible decision-making, perform additional responsibilities.
- Requirements: Likely the "Who You Are Required Qualifications" section includes required qualifications: Bachelor's in Engineering, Construction Management or other related field within Power & Energy Market, or equivalent experience; Candidates with PMP certification will be considered; 15+ years relevant post education experience in project management role within Power Delivery/Utility Industry; Minimum 5 years applicable industry experience working/providing engineering services for IOUs, IPPs, Co-Ops, Munis, etc.; Minimum 5 years experience leading engineering and/or construction teams on medium to large electrical utility scale clients for medium, high voltage and/or extra high voltage power delivery type projects; Knowledge and experience with project management processes and tools required (list); Advanced-level understanding of project delivery process within Power Delivery/Utility industry and strong background/experience in project management; Advanced proficiency with analytical and organizational skills, business acumen; Advanced proficiency with critical thinking and problem-solving skills; Advanced proficiency with interpersonal and communication skills; Excellent self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, adjusting to changing prioritization; Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC; Advanced proficiency with technical writing, office automation, relevant software, MS Office suite products, technology, spreadsheets, and PM tools; Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources; Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies; Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet project-specific needs; Occasional travel required and travel frequency will depend on client and project-specific requirements.
- Qualifications: Might be "Preferred Qualifications": PE License, MBA, PMP Certification, Knowledge of WSP’s clients in the Northeast United States.
- Skills: Could be derived from required qualifications list: maybe we can separate skills like Contract Management, External and Internal Team Meeting Management, Earned Value Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management (CPM, Primavera P6), Financial Management, etc. But the instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can put lists under sections.
- Benefits: The posting includes "WSP Benefits" paragraph describing comprehensive suite of benefits: medical, dental, vision, disability, life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; paid time off for bereavement, voting, naturalization. Also earlier: "WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career." So we have benefits content.
- Pay: The posting includes "Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $200,000 - $280,000". Also note about WSP USA providing compensation range. So we have pay.
- Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned. There's mention of occasional travel, flexible schedule? Not a specific schedule. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Schedule not stated, so we should not include Schedule section.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay.
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can format as lists.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Project Management Area Lead". Not to be used as heading.
We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — none present.
We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. At end there is EEO statement: "WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States. Notice To Third Party Agencies WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service A". This is boilerplate; we should remove it.
Also earlier there is "About WSP ABOUT US ..." which is also boilerplate about company; we should remove that as it's not substantive to the role? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "About WSP" section is not exactly those categories but could be considered boilerplate. However it's about the company; might be considered not required. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; does "About WSP" count as substantive? It's generic company description, not specific to the role. Likely we can remove it as boilerplate. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. It doesn't explicitly say to remove company overview, but to preserve ALL substantive information. The company overview may be considered substantive? However typical job posting reformat often excludes generic "About the company" unless it's specific to role. The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The company overview could be a section but not listed as allowed headings. Allowed headings are About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not add a section for About WSP. So we omit it.
Thus we will output HTML with sections:
About the role
... (summary of role)
But we need to preserve all substantive information; we could put the role overview paragraph(s) as . The role overview includes: "WSP is seeking a Project Management Area Lead for our Power & Energy Management Team. The Project Management Area Lead (PMAL) is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the local and/or regional project management team to produce a product consistent with WSP mission statement and our culture.The PMAL is expected to lead by example in adhering to WSP's culture and defined project management and business practices and to achieve the goals of the business plan, maintain WSP's high-quality standards, promote internal teamwork and meet the needs of our clients. The position requires a focus on division goals to enhance client connection, maintain uncompromising quality and build a better future together. Building a team atmosphere is critical to the success of our Department in the Northeast Region. This position will be based out of New York, NY , Newark, NJ, Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA with the ability to work remotely from any mutually acceptable location. You must have the ability to travel to a WSP and/or Client office for periodic in-person meetings. As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, WSP now brings world-class expertise in power delivery and project management with the recent acquisition of POWER Engineers, Inc. Our vision is to be the preeminent pure-play global consulting firm for the world’s energy transition. And we need your help. This Opportunity Provides leadership and project management oversight for the development, execution, management, control and monitoring of, depending on client/direct reports’ needs, Substation, and/or Transmission Line throughout the Northeast Region projects in support of company, regional, and national business line goals."
We could keep that as a paragraph.
Then Responsibilities: list of duties.
We need to extract all responsibilities bullet points from the long paragraph after "Your Impact". Let's parse:
"Your Impact Provide PM leadership for small/medium/large scale/more complex Substation , and/or Transmission Line throughout the Northeast Region ensuring support for preparing and overseeing project detailed design, budgets, forecasts, margins and KPIs, monitoring external events and risk contingencies, ensuring satisfactory performance, and managing the contractual obligations to deliver the project or assigned portfolio of assigned project(s) as defined in the contract and client’s expectations.Serves as a Project Management subject matter expert and champion for ensuring corporate compliance with all internal project management standards and successfully addressing current and future project management challenges within a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.Support the development of and execution of the Business Unit (BU) and Regional Manager department recruiting plans by interviewing potential candidates and making final recommendations. Monitor and address retention.Oversee the employee review process for all staff. Perform reviews for all direct reports. Summarize recommendations for position and salary adjustments for all direct reports. Supporting the mentoring of all project management staff for compliance with internal process and best practices, as well as earned value management and associated PMBOK standard practices.Participate in company-wide training and in-person training events for Division development and growth.Support the preparation, monitoring and execution of PE to PM plans for internal transfers and new external hires. Ensure a strong mentoring relationship is established with all new PMs.Develop and foster effective strategies to engage project stakeholders at all levels, maintain effective relationships, and report on project progress.Provide guidance with pursuit/initiation activities for projects meeting defined criteria or risk profile; including “Go / No-Go” decisions, contract reviews, risk mitigation strategies, pricing reviews, etc.May participate, and many times, lead the contract T&Cs negotiations, rate schedule development, and client presentations.Actively drive and coordinate the completion of appropriate levels of internal risk review required for all projects associated with your reporting staff, adhering to company RDOA requirements and procedures.Actively drive the appropriate levels of technical review required for the project, selecting appropriately qualified staff to perform the required reviews, and adherence to the QA/QC plan.Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.Ensure updates occur with system and process documentation including: Risk (REF/RMP), Project Management Plan (PMP), Project Quality Plan (QP), Project Safety (PSP), and Communications Plan where applicable.Lead project kick-off meetings with key stakeholders.Coordinate with area/technical managers to address project resource and subcontracting requirements in a timely manner.Maintain regular communications with the client including reporting on monthly status, safety incidents, and major issues together with scope and budget impacts.Participate in and oversee problem project reviews, providing input about root cause issues and potential solutions. Assist with developing project recovery plans.
About the role
... (summary of role)
But we need to preserve all substantive information; we could put the role overview paragraph(s) as. The role overview includes: "WSP is seeking a Project Management Area Lead for our Power & Energy Management Team. The Project Management Area Lead (PMAL) is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the local and/or regional project management team to produce a product consistent with WSP mission statement and our culture.The PMAL is expected to lead by example in adhering to WSP's culture and defined project management and business practices and to achieve the goals of the business plan, maintain WSP's high-quality standards, promote internal teamwork and meet the needs of our clients. The position requires a focus on division goals to enhance client connection, maintain uncompromising quality and build a better future together. Building a team atmosphere is critical to the success of our Department in the Northeast Region. This position will be based out of New York, NY , Newark, NJ, Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA with the ability to work remotely from any mutually acceptable location. You must have the ability to travel to a WSP and/or Client office for periodic in-person meetings. As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, WSP now brings world-class expertise in power delivery and project management with the recent acquisition of POWER Engineers, Inc. Our vision is to be the preeminent pure-play global consulting firm for the world’s energy transition. And we need your help. This Opportunity Provides leadership and project management oversight for the development, execution, management, control and monitoring of, depending on client/direct reports’ needs, Substation, and/or Transmission Line throughout the Northeast Region projects in support of company, regional, and national business line goals." We could keep that as a paragraph. Then Responsibilities: list of duties. We need to extract all responsibilities bullet points from the long paragraph after "Your Impact". Let's parse: "Your Impact Provide PM leadership for small/medium/large scale/more complex Substation , and/or Transmission Line throughout the Northeast Region ensuring support for preparing and overseeing project detailed design, budgets, forecasts, margins and KPIs, monitoring external events and risk contingencies, ensuring satisfactory performance, and managing the contractual obligations to deliver the project or assigned portfolio of assigned project(s) as defined in the contract and client’s expectations.Serves as a Project Management subject matter expert and champion for ensuring corporate compliance with all internal project management standards and successfully addressing current and future project management challenges within a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.Support the development of and execution of the Business Unit (BU) and Regional Manager department recruiting plans by interviewing potential candidates and making final recommendations. Monitor and address retention.Oversee the employee review process for all staff. Perform reviews for all direct reports. Summarize recommendations for position and salary adjustments for all direct reports. Supporting the mentoring of all project management staff for compliance with internal process and best practices, as well as earned value management and associated PMBOK standard practices.Participate in company-wide training and in-person training events for Division development and growth.Support the preparation, monitoring and execution of PE to PM plans for internal transfers and new external hires. Ensure a strong mentoring relationship is established with all new PMs.Develop and foster effective strategies to engage project stakeholders at all levels, maintain effective relationships, and report on project progress.Provide guidance with pursuit/initiation activities for projects meeting defined criteria or risk profile; including “Go / No-Go” decisions, contract reviews, risk mitigation strategies, pricing reviews, etc.May participate, and many times, lead the contract T&Cs negotiations, rate schedule development, and client presentations.Actively drive and coordinate the completion of appropriate levels of internal risk review required for all projects associated with your reporting staff, adhering to company RDOA requirements and procedures.Actively drive the appropriate levels of technical review required for the project, selecting appropriately qualified staff to perform the required reviews, and adherence to the QA/QC plan.Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.Ensure updates occur with system and process documentation including: Risk (REF/RMP), Project Management Plan (PMP), Project Quality Plan (QP), Project Safety (PSP), and Communications Plan where applicable.Lead project kick-off meetings with key stakeholders.Coordinate with area/technical managers to address project resource and subcontracting requirements in a timely manner.Maintain regular communications with the client including reporting on monthly status, safety incidents, and major issues together with scope and budget impacts.Participate in and oversee problem project reviews, providing input about root cause issues and potential solutions. Assist with developing project recovery plans.