OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Lead and manage a variety of complex projects in support of various electric utility clients, overseeing all processes from initiation to closeout.
JOB COMPLEXITY/SCOPE: Supervises, directs, and coordinates with project stakeholders including clients, engineers, and contractors regarding scope, schedule and cost adherence. Responsible for maintaining client relationships and participating in business development activities as required. As an expert in the field of project management, provides team leadership on multiple complex projects.
SUPERVISION: May supervise the work of subordinate PMs.
FLSA STATUS: Exempt
JOB DUTIES:
Cost Management
• Manages, controls, and monitors project costs during all project phases.
• Develops and manages project budget and cash flow analysis.
• Prepares and reviews cost estimates.
• Identifies potential areas of cost savings and acts to implement these ideas.
• Monitors Cotter fees and contract performance.
Schedule Management
• Maintains the overall project schedule and works to ensure on-time completion.
• Identifies schedule concerns and works with the project team to correct. Prepares and implements make-up schedules to get the work back on track.
• Oversight of project deliverables.
Client Relations and Business Development
• Maintains relationship with client on an ongoing basis to enhance client satisfaction and increase potential for additional business.
• Pursues new opportunities with current clients.
• Assists with development and preparation of qualifications, proposals, and presentations.
Identifies new opportunities, meets and presents to prospective clients.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering or closely related field
• Experience with MS Office Software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Direct experience or exposure to electrical utilities a plus
• Typically requires 10 years related experience
• PMP Certification is preferred
• Hybrid work opportunity based in Greater Chicago with flexible arrangements, allowing for work-life balance and occasional visits to field sites.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:
Flexibility and Adaptability
• Recovers from disappointments and setbacks.
• Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments.
• Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations.
Learning Oriented
• Works to create a climate that values learning as a lifelong professional requirement.
• Leads in establishing a climate that views errors and failures as learning opportunities.
• Seeks opportunities to help others learn as teacher, coach, and mentor.
Oral Communications
• Facilitates effective communication with senior technical and business associates.
• Interacts with a wide variety of technical and business audiences.
• Analyzes, determines, and presents the right message, verifying it is received as intended.
• Effectively presents to clients, delivering key messages clearly and succinctly.
Teamwork
• Coordinates roles, responsibilities, and interdependencies of all team members.
• Develops an effective working relationship with each team member.
• Identifies and addresses potential problems or issues within the team.
Problem Solving
• Brings about successful resolutions to high-impact or cross-functional problems.
• Transforms stressful disagreements and hostile situations into win-win resolutions.
• Considers long-term trends and broad business implications for alternatives.
Project Management
• Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.
• Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.
Written Communication
• Produces written materials in business- and industry-specific technical language.
• Adapts writing - language, form, style, tone - to different audiences.
• Reviews the written materials of others and provides feedback and coaching.
Staff Management and Development
• Mentors staff concerning service delivery to maintain high quality standards.
• Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback.
• Seeks opportunities to serve as a mentor.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
Job duties in an office setting require the following:
• Ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to move throughout the office;
• The ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects;
• Good hand-eye coordination; the ability to reach with hands and arms; and arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including the ability to grasp;
• Close visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate office equipment, prepare and review data and figures, and view a computer monitor;
• The ability to talk and hear;
• The ability to work in an upper level of a high-rise office building (Cotter Chicago office and some client offices);
• The ability to handle temperature changes consistent with inside environmental conditions; and
• Mental abilities including remembering, reasoning, concentrating to remain on task, reading, problem solving, managing concurrent tasks, and the ability to understand and follow directions.
Job duties that require visiting a construction work site require the following:
• Normal color vision;
• The ability to ascend and descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms;
• The ability to move across uneven surfaces and the ability to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling on uneven or slippery surfaces;
• The ability to stoop, kneel, or crouch;
• The ability to stand for sustained periods of time;
• The ability to work in confined spaces and narrow passageways;
• The ability to work in high places; and
• The ability to handle outside environmental conditions including extreme heat, extreme cold, loud noise levels, fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and oils.
Learn more about our benefits: Cotter-Benefits-Brochure-1.pdf
Salary Description
130,000-160,000 annually
