Program Manager (NY)

LaBella Associates•Rochester, NY

6d•$100,000 - $144,000

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Program Manager. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background, experience in quality management, and excellent communication and leadership skills. The Program Management Services Division at LaBella provides comprehensive management services for complex projects and multi-year capital programs. Project teams are established to provide a customized mix of business consulting, project management, financial control and monitoring, administrative, and technical support services. The specific salary offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location. Body, mind, and wallet—LaBella’s benefits support a holistic approach to your health and wellness, creating the foundation for physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our benefit offerings cover the must-haves (healthcare and retirement), the just-in-cases (insurances and employee assistance programs), and the cherry-on-tops (fitness reimbursements, year-end incentive pay, and tuition assistance). Visit our website for more details on benefits listed below.

Requirements

10 years or more in large scale projects Program Management for Utility business
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, MBA preferred.
Program Management Professional Certification (PgMP) or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Minimum five (5) years experience in the functional area under which it will be contracted: Gas-Hydro and OSG.
Excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively with different departments.
Strong leadership abilities.
Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Nice To Haves

Responsibilities

Focus on SPI and CPI performance indicators as decision drivers.
Oversight of scheduling/cost controllers and activities. This person will work with SMEs, estimators and procurement present accurate project budgets.
Preparing and completing action plans; implementing and reporting on production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying risks, resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining improvements; implementing change.
Meets AVANGRID objectives by preparing Program Initiation and Program Management Plan, executing plan requirements, analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
Development of On Boarding, Training and Resource Retention Plan
Achieve efficiencies by accepting responsibility and accountability for results, accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to the AVANGRID organization.
Develop and execute a program evaluation framework to assess the strengths of the program and to identify areas to target for improvement.
Coordinates Avangrid objectives across contractor's projects. Primary responsibility is to access overall priorities and define dependencies between the Physical Security and Smart Grid project.