Description
General Accountabilities:
- Accountable to manage, develop and maintain a team of professionals for a centralized project delivery department that supports the capital work program for electrical power system projects of the company.
- Accountable to administer the technical project management effort by providing guidance and leadership of a team of Project Managers.
- Accountable for the integration of the project management team with all areas of the organization (environment, Indigenous relations, estimating, risk, cost control, document control and change management).
- Accountable for creating reports for management and supporting corporate level schedule meetings such as: financial reporting, executive leadership reporting and Board of Directors reporting.
- Responsible for the development of department work methods and processes that are consistent with departmental project controls methodology and industry best practices as defined by AACE and PMI.
- Perform other duties as required.
Selection Criteria:
- Requires a good knowledge of English to communicate effectively with others in both written and oral form. Will also need to be able to effectively present to stakeholders and prepare technical reports.
- Requires a university degree in engineering, sciences or extensive experience in the electrical utility construction management field.
- Requires experience with project management of power system projects. A period of over 10 years and up to and including 15 years is considered necessary to gain this experience.
- Experience with supervising, managing or coaching a team of several professional staff.
- Experience in construction management and planning, examples of which include: understanding working drawings, preparing construction schedules for the full lifecycle of a project, project planning, estimating and controlling cost and schedule
- Experience related to the development, design, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of transmission/distribution assets is a plus.
- Experience in contract negotiation, management and administration of a wide variety of contracts including time-and-materials, fixed price and EPC contracts.
- Scheduling experience in transmission line and station projects or other linear project types is a plus.
- Experience with SAP is an asset.
- Experience in working with and setting up project control systems to provide earned value analysis.
Essential Competencies:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Requires performing a variety of duties under the usual business office conditions. Required to travel, by ground and air, in support of site meetings for the various projects/programs assigned. This will at times include overnight stays due to distance of travel and to ensure safe conditions for travel.
Managerial Accountabilities & Demonstrated Management Skills
- Manage the unit and achieve the targeted results through diligent and accurate oversight of the health and safety and financial aspects of the department. Maintain a team of professionals who are capable of producing the outputs required:
- Provide staffing recommendations as requirements and objectives evolve, especially in consideration of a growing capital portfolio.
- Assess staff capability to do the required work, now and in the future.
- Conduct professional development reviews of team members to build relationships and trust, and to improve effectiveness.
- Advocate the acquisition of appropriate tools and skills to optimize the performance of staff.
- Mentor, counsel and foster the professional development of all team members.
- Manage the unit and achieve the approved programs and targeted results through the promotion of teamwork between the various disciplines, contracted resources and line of businesses across Hydro One.
- Generate a customer/client-focused culture, which consistently meets its promised commitments.
- Optimize all resources and encourage innovative ways to reduce costs and improve efficiencies.
- Maintain and develop a skilled and safety conscious workforce within the department, promoting succession planning.
Be accountable for the outputs of others:
- Set the appropriate context for team members (i.e. safety expectations, corporate strategies and policies, accountabilities, tasks, budget and programs, compliance and performance targets, expectations for continuous improvement, etc.).
- Set an effective framework of policies and procedures for the work of the unit.
- Know and ensure unit compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements, and all corporate policies and procedures, and generally accepted practices relating to the work of the unit.
- Establish a two-way working relationship with team members to solicit their views on conditions and potential changes affecting their work emphasizing safety and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Provide leadership to team members, so that they collaborate competently, and with full commitment, with each other in pursuing the goals set.
- Translate the corporate goals and objectives into a direction which guides the work of the unit and communicate that direction to all team members.
- Define specific tasks for team members that are required to achieve desired results and/or to accommodate changes required within the business operations.
Provide a safe and healthy work environment:
- Provide team members with appropriate knowledge, skills, information, work procedures and equipment to facilitate responsible behavior which will protect their safety and contribute to their health.
- Provide a work environment and facilities where health and safety incidents are minimized and eliminated.
- Provide a work environment that supports and values diversity and is free from harassment.
- Know and ensure team members comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, corporate policies and procedures, and generally accepted practices relating to their work.
- Consistently re-enforce the expectation that all work will be executed in a safe and efficient manner.
Contact
Hydro One Inc.
483 Bay St
Toronto
Ontario Canada
www.hydroone.com/
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