Consumers Energy is Michigan's largest energy provider, providing natural gas and/or electricity to 6.8 million of the state's 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. Consumers Energy knows job number one is to keep the lights on for customers. We are committed to delivering reliable, clean, and affordable energy to our customers 24/7.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, e.g., H-1B, TN, etc. Please do not apply if you will need immigration sponsorship for a work visa now or in the future, including sponsorship for H-1B, TN, etc., now or in the future. We are unable to hire individuals with CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT for this position as the position is not eligible for participation in the H-1B lottery program and is not eligible for current or future immigration sponsorship for a work visa.
Location: This is a hybrid (virtual/onsite) position with required onsite days on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and may be assigned to any Consumers Energy Service Center located throughout Michigan's lower Peninsula. The selected candidate must be within a commutable distance or willing to relocate (relocation package is available for those that qualify).
General Summary of Job Responsibilities
The Sr Mgr, EPC Mgmt is responsible for overseeing the work of a team of project managers and acts as a liaison between the team, functional business partners and upper management levels. The Sr Mgr, EPC Mgmt may also be in charge of extensive and highly complex projects that require staff and resources of sizeable magnitude. These programs could involve complex research and development, an extensive engineering project that involves a major part of the Company or an engineering project that is critical to the achievement of a key strategic objective of the Company. They provide overall management and supervision for project management in their span of control. The Sr Mgr, EPC Mgmt manages a very large portfolio of projects and works closely with other departments, such as engineering and operations, to: (1) ensure the project management team is meeting the needs of the business; (2) support the development and implementation of new cross-functional processes and procedures; (3) communicate and resolve issues; (4) develops and enforces project management standards with their team. The Sr Mgr, EPC Mgmt ensures that staff goals are developed, reviewed, and professional development occurs for staff in their span of control.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Leading the HVD EPC Program Management organization, overseeing the scope, schedule, and budget along with execution readiness of capital programs supporting Substations, Metro, Lines, and Interconnection projects across the business unit.
Builds, develops, and leads a high-performing Program Management team responsible for program planning, risk management, schedule integration, cross-functional coordination, and executive reporting to ensure successful delivery of HVD capital investment objectives.
Establishes program management standards, processes, and performance expectations across multiple capital programs, driving alignment among Engineering, Construction, Operations, Supply Chain, Real Estate, Environmental and external stakeholders to achieve safe, reliable, and cost-effective outcome to deliver on our workplan within budget.
Validate team has overall project execution plans and metric tracking including material procurement, milestone payment schedules, cash flow planning, communications, risk analysis and mitigation, resource management, and others as well as manages multiple complex projects in various stages of the project lifecycle.
Confirm project schedules are with EPM Project Scheduling group in Primavera 6. Ensure that Project Manager team has the proper training to must develop schedule concepts, constraints, integrate risks and risk mitigations, items in appropriate level of detail, track schedule process, and communicate schedule to project team. Lead the project manager to prepare financial forecasts and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
Provide clear and accurate communications, discussions, negotiations with stakeholders including preparing and performing presentations for CE leadership and external stakeholders and outside agencies.
Other Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Coach project manager team to identify and manage risks, issues and constraints impacting project execution, develop contingency plans and mitigation strategies. Assist with complex contracting strategies and approval of contracts.
Facilitate and encourage team to identify and recommend new processes (including cross functional across departments), techniques and standards that drive performance and process improvement and problem solving on existing, complex projects for process improvements. Actively work with the EPM project management office to improve processes to be more efficient and continuously improve project outcomes.
Provide ethical leadership within the Consumers Energy 3rd Party Code of Conduct. Work closely with Compliance as needed if issues arise.
Lead the development of execution plans on Corporate directed goals (Safety, Waste Elimination, DE&I, Cost Competitiveness, Cost Predictability, Culture Index improvements, Environmental Compliance)
Serve in a managerial capacity over a group of Project Managers and technical employees to execute complex projects in accordance with project management practices and Enterprise Project Management (EPM) processes. Lead all aspects of projects from initiation through execution, ensuring adherence to... For full info follow application link.
All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
