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Mgr Project Mgmt - Proj Dev
- PPL Corporation (Louisville, KY)
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Company Summary Statement
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, are regulated utilities that serve more than 1.3 million customers and have consistently ranked among the best companies for customer service in the United States. LG&E serves 334,000 natural gas and 433,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties. KU serves 569,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia. LG&E and KU are major employers and active supporters of the communities they serve. They empower employees, community members and initiatives across their service territory through volunteerism and investments in organizations that support education, sustainability and wellbeing.
Overview
This position provides management level leadership and support related to the portfolio of Transmission Project Development capital projects including strategy and development of project management, reporting and related processes. This includes oversight and coordination of the development phase of the project from inception to project execution handoff to ensure capital portfolio can be executed with a detailed and organized scope, schedule and budget. The position provides formal supervision of project management staff.
Responsibilities
• Supervises Project Development Project Management staff, including assignments, development, and performance management.
• Oversee the development of project work plans, manages project changes, and resolves project problems to ensure project schedule is maintained.
• Develops and implements strategies for the effective management of project portfolio including estimating, budgeting, planning, scheduling, reporting and related processes.
• Manages coordination of inter-departmental project team identification and communication for confirmation of project plan and scope.
• Ensures scope, schedule and budget are prepared for successful project execution on Transmission lines and substation capital projects.
• Oversees capital project financials including funding requests, forecasting, cashflows and project authorization.
• Provides oversight developing project schedules to support required capital improvement required in-service dates. Team prepares detailed activity-based schedules for all transmission line and substation projects.
• Contributes to effective project portfolio execution and inter-departmental coordination and planning through regular communication, project meetings and reports.
• Manages coordination and communication of project status and changes with stakeholders.
• Provides oversight of project turnover to execution team ensuring that all tasks and responsibilities are complete and in-progress.
• Develops and implements strategies to mitigate project contingencies and risks.
• Performs analysis and recommendations to support resource allocation decisions.
• Responsible for development of standards for internal project management processes and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards
Qualifications
+ Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business, or related project management discipline
+ 8+ years job-related industry experience
+ Must have strong leadership, project management and interpersonal skills.
+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
+ DL NUMBER - Driver License, Valid and in State Required
\#LG&EKU
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+ Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business, or related project management discipline
+ 8+ years job-related industry experience
+ Must have strong leadership, project management and interpersonal skills.
+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
+ DL NUMBER - Driver License, Valid and in State Required
\#LG&EKU
\#INDLGE
• Supervises Project Development Project Management staff, including assignments, development, and performance management.
• Oversee the development of project work plans, manages project changes, and resolves project problems to ensure project schedule is maintained.
• Develops and implements strategies for the effective management of project portfolio including estimating, budgeting, planning, scheduling, reporting and related processes.
• Manages coordination of inter-departmental project team identification and communication for confirmation of project plan and scope.
• Ensures scope, schedule and budget are prepared for successful project execution on Transmission lines and substation capital projects.
• Oversees capital project financials including funding requests, forecasting, cashflows and project authorization.
• Provides oversight developing project schedules to support required capital improvement required in-service dates. Team prepares detailed activity-based schedules for all transmission line and substation projects.
• Contributes to effective project portfolio execution and inter-departmental coordination and planning through regular communication, project meetings and reports.
• Manages coordination and communication of project status and changes with stakeholders.
• Provides oversight of project turnover to execution team ensuring that all tasks and responsibilities are complete and in-progress.
• Develops and implements strategies to mitigate project contingencies and risks.
• Performs analysis and recommendations to support resource allocation decisions.
• Responsible for development of standards for internal project management processes and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards
Remote Work
The company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both. Assigned work location may change. In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Our company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identify, genetic information, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.
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