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Don’t delay, plug in today for an inclusive meaningful career in power, distribution, transmission, engineering, design, technology, or innovation at Mesa Associates, Inc.\nMesa seeks a motivated Electrical Substation Project Manager to manage P&C and Physical Design teams who are working on a growing customer's project portfolio. Responsibilities include communicating with our client's project managers and working with Mesa's project team to deliver outstanding customer service and high-quality substation designs.\nRequired abilities for Electrical Substation Project Manager:\n Mature knowledge of medium through extra high voltage substations' protection & control systems and physical design layout requirements.\nDemonstrate leadership in developing and supporting Mesa's and our customers' safety programs.\nStrong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to coordinate with and interface with clients, vendors, engineers, colleagues, and other electric utilities personnel.\nStrong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and work effectively with clients, peers, and affiliates.\nCapable of understanding and implementing new processes/procedures with regards to Project and Program management.\nKnowledgeable on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s) standard for Organizational Project Management (OPM).\nProficiency in Microsoft Office, scheduling software and the ability to work with corporate accounting practices and business operations.\nExperience with electrical utility equipment, systems, and project/programs IS required. \nResponsibilities of Electrical Substation Project Manager:\nManage electrical substation projects throughout their design lifecycle\nManage multiple projects of various complexity concurrently\nConduct meetings/calls with project stakeholders, build consensus and resolution to challenges discussed, manage the assignment, follow-up, and completion, of meeting action items\nManage the project planning process to ensure each project’s outcome meets customer’s objectives\nCommunicate project milestone requirements with all key stakeholders upon receipt of customer’s approval to proceed\nAttend customer job walks and provide technical/project support to customer’s Responsible Engineer\nComplete job walk checklist and review/contribute to meeting minutes. Review project SOW and identify any site constraints/conditions which may impact project feasibility. Provide recommendations to customer project team where reduction in costs or schedule length may be achieved\nIdentify project risks, create a project risk register and apply project risk management and mitigation techniques\nDevelop and submit a project estimate to customer within timeframe allotted by customer\nDevelop a project execution plan and determine the resources necessary to ensure successful project completion\nWork with group leads to manage design and engineering resources\nConduct Project Kick-off meetings with all project stakeholders and share project baselines which will be used to monitor and control the project’s KPI’s\nMaintain a project log and project status reporting system database to capture communications, milestone reviews, key project data, and change orders\nMonitor and control projects to ensure project meets customer’s SOW and prevent scope creep\nMonitor project execution for changes that may impact schedule and budget performance of project\nCommunicate all project changes with customer and project team in a timely fashion to permit evaluation of alternatives to minimize schedule and budget impacts and update project execution plan\nMonitor and control Project Quality. Ensure QAQC activities are completed on time and all deliverables meet customer’s requirements at each milestone/stage gate\nMonitor project metrics and provide appropriate feedback to stakeholders to maintain project performance per the project plan\nManage internal change order processes to meet Mesa’s and our customer’s requirements\nMonitor project budgets and financial reports on a weekly/bi-weekly basis analyzing Planned Value, Earned Value, and Schedule/Cost Variance. Provide team with Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and Cost Performance Index (CPI) data on a regular basis\nRespond to RFI’s and ensure customer receives accurate and timely information regarding project inquires\nInitiate RFI’s and facilitate necessary discussions to resolve any gaps in knowledge\nClose out projects in a timely fashion, complete all necessary customer reports/documentation\nConduct a project close-out meeting with project stakeholders to capture and record all Lessons Learned\nSupport the development and implementation of client’s project engineering/management tools, standards, and processes to support successful project engineering implementation\nHighly Preferred: Experience with Southern California Edison engineering standards and project management requirements\nBENEFITS:\nPaid Time Off\nHoliday Pay - 10 Annually\nGroup Medical/Dental Insurance\nLife Insurance (Company Paid)\nDisability Insurance (Company Paid)\n401(K) Retirement Savings Plan\n401(K) Matching Contribution\nSection 125 / Cafeteria Plan\nLong Term Care Insurance\nTuition Reimbursement\nFitness Center Reimbursement\nAnnual Performance Bonus\n9/80 Work Schedule\nANNUAL SALARY RANGE: $120,000 to $155,000.\nThe expected compensation is a range determined by factors including but not limited to education, experience, and qualifications of the candidate, internal equity, work location, and hiring department’s fiscal resources.\nNotice to External Search Firms: Mesa Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes and will not be obligated to pay a placement fee for unsolicited resumes. 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