Project Manager II - Transmission Focus

Duke Energy•Plainfield, IN

3d•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 objectives for scope, schedule, cost, quality, environmental compliance, safety, communications, security, and integration. Projects may include new construction, rebuilds, replacements, expansions, relocations, and retirements across the transmission and distribution system. Work can involve overhead and underground transmission lines, substations and switching stations, equipment and protection systems, customer interconnections, network upgrades, reliability and storm-hardening work, outages and commissioning, right-of-way and access, facility relocations, and emergency restoration. Projects may be delivered by alliance partners, engineering-procurement-construction contractors, internal teams, or combinations of resources. The position is classified as hybrid, with three days per week in the office or onsite. The employee must reside within 50 miles of the posted position location. Travel is 15–25%. Relocation assistance is not provided. The role is not visa sponsored and requires authorization to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 5 or more years of related work experience; or, in lieu of a bachelor’s degree, a high school diploma/GED and 9 or more years of related work experience.
Ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Must 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.
Utility transmission, substation, line, protection and control, construction, regulatory, or right-of-way experience.
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 project organizations and stakeholders.
Establish and maintain communications with project teams, management, landowners, communities, agencies, customers, contractors, and other affected stakeholders; communicate project status, decisions, risks, change impacts, outage requirements, routing and siting matters, and milestones.
Lead project 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 scope, schedule, cost forecasts, commitments, contracts, changes, risks, issues, decisions, quality, safety, environmental obligations, permits, outage readiness, field progress, testing, energization, 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, with attention to 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.