Minnesota Power is seeking a Construction Manager to join its Engineering Services team to provide professional and technical leadership to the construction and project management group, with a focus on substation utility work. As a Construction Manager at Minnesota Power, your work will have an impact on the environment, customers, and communities. When you join our Engineering Services team, you will help maintain and enhance infrastructure, ensuring reliable service to customers and supporting the community's needs.
Minnesota Power offers a flexible, friendly work environment, expansive opportunities to grow and develop in your career, and a culture that drives excellence through our shared values of integrity, safety, people, and planet. We offer choice in the things that matter to you: your money, your health, your time, and your career. The compensation package includes a competitive, market-based salary, a robust retirement plan, medical and dental benefits, company-supported continuing education, generous time off, professional development opportunities, an incentive plan, and other perks.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide oversight, training, and documentation of daily operations.
- Act as a key liaison with project managers, ensures effective communication and coordination while assuming responsibility for construction management activities, including documenting daily construction observations, reviewing and communicating field results, ensuring compliance with the accepted standards, ensure contractors are following plans and specifications, managing communication of schedule changes, coordination, operational outage planning, and general oversight of contractors.
- Ensure internal and external consultants/contractors follow Company standards and safety requirements.
- Work as a collaborative team member with the ability to seek and execute prompt solutions, at time independently.
- Requires appropriate skills to supervise multiple, often complex, construction sites/projects that may be remote from each other.
- Requires a commitment to quality and safety, and excellent interpersonal and written communication skills to establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers.
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
- Associates Degree in engineering related fields, drafting or electric power/electrical utility substation technology
OR - Journey level lineworker, Substation Technician, or Relay Technician.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- Six years or more progressively responsible job related experience
- Industrial/utility design and/or sub-station, transmission line, and/or distribution construction experience preferred.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license.
- This position may be considered for a hybrid work arrangement based on ALLETE's needs. A Hybrid work arrangement means the employee's position will be a blend of work performed both in-person and at an offsite location such as an employee's home office. This position will report to Duluth, MN.
- Demonstrated competency in a construction support, electrical design, or electrical engineering.
- Competent in Microsoft 365 suite, Adobe, drafting programs/software (i.e. Bluebeam), and other relevant applications.
- Field work and extensive travel to customer sites, with occasional overnight stays required.
- This position may be subject to assessment of skills, job match and/or aptitude.
ALLETE, Inc.
30 W Superior St Duluth
Minnesota États-Unis
www.allete.com/
