Project Manager II - Transmission Focus

Duke Energy Corporation•Plainfield, IN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Project Manager II (PM-II) manages a portfolio of low- to moderate-risk transmission projects and may support higher-risk projects under an Enhanced Support and Oversight Plan. The role provides leadership, decision-making, coordination, and control in accordance with established policies, procedures, systems, and regulatory requirements. The PM-II has single-point accountability or works under the general direction of a Project Director or Manager of Project Management, and manages or assists with all phases of project planning and execution to meet project success factors, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, environmental, safety, communications, security, and integration. Projects may include new-build, rebuild, replacement, expansion, relocation, and retirement work across transmission and distribution systems. Examples include overhead and underground transmission lines, substations and switching stations, equipment upgrades, customer interconnections, network reliability upgrades, outage and commissioning work, right-of-way and access projects, facility relocations, storm hardening, asset replacement, emergency restoration, and work delivered through alliance partners or engineering-procurement-construction contractors. The role coordinates multidisciplinary internal and external teams and stakeholders, plans and directs project execution from initiation through closeout, and maintains project controls such as estimates, schedules, forecasts, accruals, commitments, change control, contingency, status reporting, and closeout records. Transmission-specific work includes coordinating route and site development, surveys, environmental reviews, permitting, land acquisition, transmission planning, design, procurement, outage availability, construction, commissioning, energization, and turnover to Operations. The position is classified as hybrid, with three days per week in the office or onsite. The employee must reside within a 50-mile radius of the posted position location. Travel is 15–25%. Relocation assistance is not provided. The position is not visa sponsored and requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of related work experience; alternatively, a High School diploma/GED and at least 9 years of related work experience.
Ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Ability to reside within a 50-mile radius of the posted position location.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Project Management or Business Administration.
Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Professional Engineer (PE), or Construction Management certification.
Experience in utility transmission, substations, lines, protection and control, construction, regulatory matters, or right-of-way.
Experience with project scheduling, cost controls, estimating, contracting, procurement, and regulated-utility governance.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership, oversight, direction, delegation, and coordination across internal and external organizations involved in project delivery.
Maintain clear communication among project teams, management, landowners, communities, agencies, customers, contractors, and other affected stakeholders.
Prepare and communicate project status, decisions, risks, change impacts, outage requirements, routing and siting matters, and upcoming milestones.
Lead scope and work definition, estimating, schedule development, design strategy, procurement and contracting strategy, permitting and right-of-way plans, outage and construction sequencing, quality and safety planning, risk management, commissioning, and turnover.
Integrate engineering, long-lead materials, property rights, regulatory approvals, interconnection dependencies, and system outage constraints into an executable project baseline.
Direct project execution from initiation through closeout, managing work breakdown structures, schedules, cost forecasts, commitments, contracts, changes, risks, issues, decisions, quality, safety, environmental obligations, permits, outage readiness, field progress, testing, energization, as-built documentation, asset records, financial closeout, and lessons learned.
Escalate emerging threats and implement recovery plans when project performance deviates from the approved baseline.
Coordinate route and site development, surveys, geotechnical work, environmental reviews, permitting, land acquisition, and stakeholder outreach.
Integrate transmission planning assumptions, design criteria, interconnection requirements, constructability, equipment lead times, and outage availability.
Lead readiness reviews for design release, procurement, construction mobilization, outages, commissioning, energization, and turnover.
Manage interfaces among line, substation, protection and control, telecommunications, civil, real estate, environmental, operations, and customer workstreams.
Maintain a current risk register and decision log, particularly for routing, property rights, permitting, long-lead equipment, outage windows, contractor capacity, and customer dependencies.
Maintain project controls, including estimates, schedules, forecasts, accruals, commitments, change control, contingency, status reporting, and closeout records.