Job Title: Sr PM - Major Construction
Location: Orange, CT
Work type: Office (on-site)
The salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from$128,320to $160,400.
What We Offer:
- Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
- Generous performance‑based bonuses
- 12% 401(k) match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development and clear career‑advancement pathways
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Job Summary:
The Senior Project Manager is the single point of accountability for the successful delivery of complex substation construction projects across Connecticut. This role owns safety, cost, schedule, contractor performance, outage coordination, and energization through execution in live brownfield environments.
The Senior PM leads multi-disciplinary teams, manages external contractors, resolves field conflicts, and makes time-sensitive decisions that directly impact system reliability, regulatory compliance, and capital performance.
The Senior Project Manager is fully accountable for the on‑time delivery of assigned substation construction projects, ensuring delivery within approved budgets and in conformance with engineering, quality, safety, and regulatory standards. The role is responsible for meeting corporate goals for capital investment, including effective management of Construction Work in Progress (CWIP), capital forecasting, and timely energization to support system reliability and business objectives. The Senior Project Manager represents the company in regulatory proceedings and public forums, including meetings with municipalities, regulators, and other external stakeholders.
Major Roles and Responsibilities(Scope of work - range of responsibilities):
Engineering Oversight & Project Development
- Provides overall leadership and oversight of the engineering phase of substation projects, ensuring engineering deliverables support constructability, schedule commitments, cost targets, and operational requirements.
- Coordinates and provides project‑level oversight of internal and external engineering resources, ensuring designs are complete, accurate, and issued in accordance with project schedules and construction needs.
- Ensures timely resolution of engineering issues, design changes, and constructability challenges that impact construction execution, outage planning, or energization.
- Maintains accountability for engineering scope, schedule, and budget as part of overall project delivery.
- Ensures effective integration between engineering and construction teams to support sequencing, outage planning, and field execution.
Construction Oversight & Execution Accountability
- Maintains overall accountability for construction execution outcomes, including safety, schedule, cost, quality, and readiness for energization.
- Oversees Construction Managers and Field Construction Managers responsible for day‑to‑day field activities, providing direction, priority setting, and escalation support as required.
- Ensures construction activities are executed in accordance with approved engineering, quality standards, safety requirements, and project schedules.
- Acts as escalation point for field issues, contractor performance concerns, sequencing conflicts, and impacts to schedule or energization.
Schedule, Cost, and Capital Investment Management
- Fully accountable for on‑time project delivery, ensuring projects are completed within approved scopes, budgets, and schedules.
- Responsible for meeting corporate capital investment goals through disciplined management of capital forecasts, Construction Work in Progress (CWIP), and timely project energization.
- Proactively manages cost, schedule, and risk; develops and implements recovery strategies when performance deviates from plan.
- Approves project plans, contract strategies, and authorizes expenditures within delegated authority.
Contractor, Stakeholder, and Regulatory Leadership
- Oversees external consultants, engineering firms, and construction contractors; holds all parties accountable for performance, safety, quality, and contractual obligations.
- Coordinates with internal departments, municipal stakeholders, permitting agencies, regulators, utilities, and major customers throughout project development and execution.
- Represents the company in regulatory proceedings and public forums, including municipal meetings, permitting hearings, and engagements with regulatory agencies.
Governance, Risk, and Reporting
- Accountable for project governance, controls, and compliance with FERC, NERC, and internal project management and quality processes.
- Defines and manages project risks, mitigation strategies, and contingency planning.
- Provides clear, actionable reporting to senior leadership on cost, schedule, risk, and execution status, including participation in executive and cost/schedule review meetings.
Skills/Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex utility or infrastructure projects, including substation projects, through engineering development, construction execution, and energization, with full accountability for outcomes.
- Strong judgment and decision‑making skills in managing competing priorities, incomplete information, and schedule or cost risk in live/brownfield environments.
- Proven capability to oversee engineering teams and consultants, ensuring designs are constructible, coordinated, and aligned with execution and outage requirements.
- Ability to oversee Construction Managers and Field Construction Managers responsible for day‑to‑day field activities, while maintaining accountability for safety, schedule, quality, and contractor performance.
- Strong financial and schedule management skills, including capital forecasting, CWIP management, cost controls, risk mitigation, and recovery planning.
- Experienced in contractor management, contract execution, change management, and dispute resolution.
- Ability to clearly communicate project status, risks, and decisions to executive leadership, regulators, municipalities, and other external stakeholders.
- Proficient in the use of project controls, scheduling, and enterprise systems (e.g., Primavera or MS Project, SAP, Excel) to support project planning, capital and project forecasting, performance analysis, and executive‑level reporting.
Experience/Training:
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant project management experience in utility, infrastructure, or complex construction environments is required
- Substation PM construction experience is strongly preferred, including exposure to live or brownfield environments and projects delivered through energization.
- Candidates without direct substation experience may be considered if they demonstrate closely related and transferable experience
- Demonstrated experience overseeing engineering development, construction execution, contractor performance, cost and schedule controls, and risk mitigation on capital projects is required.
- Proven ability to manage contractors, resolve scope and execution disputes, and deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.
- Project Management Professional Certification preferred
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree (in Engineering preferred) with 12 years relevant experience in energy industry required.
- Or more than 20 years relevant experience in energy industry required.
- MBA preferred.
Competency Requirements:
It is preferred that for this job, the candidate fulfills the requirements in terms of levels indicated below.
1. Delivering for the Business:
- Global view of the Business – Advanced
- Achieving Results and continuous improvements - Advanced
- Initiative – Advanced
- Innovation & Creativity - Advanced
2. Global Relationships:
- Flexibility & Globalization - Competent
- Customer Focus - Advanced
- Communicating & Influencing – Advanced
- Team Work - Advanced
3. Global Leadership:
- Team management – Advanced
- Developing Others - Advanced
Company:
THE UNITED ILLUMINATING COMPANY
Mobility Information
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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.
Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee’s management.
Job Posting End Date:
July-31-2026