Senior Project Manager - Oahu

Company:
Hawaiian Electric Company (hawaiianel).

We recognize our competitive advantage – our people. We believe in our people, who share our vision of meeting the needs of our employees, customers, and communities and who carry out the continued success of the company.

Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

Ensures achievement of critical annual and long‑term (5‑10 years) investment objectives for projects and programs that drive performance of reliability, resiliency and service for Oahu, Maui County and Hawaii Island. Establishes projects and programs to ensure achievement of performance‑based investments.

Coordinates across multiple divisions as part of the asset strategy investment planning process to input projects and programs into the company portfolio for review and approval at an executive level. Ensures that budgeted goals and performance outcomes are achieved and are consistent with the established strategies through the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Participates in the project/program initialization process, through the use of advanced project‑management expertise to:

• Develop, plan, organize and manage scope, schedule, costs and risks of capital projects requiring extremely complex upfront collaboration with cross‑functional/multi‑level management resources to initialize projects into the budget to meet company strategic goals and objectives;
• Initiate projects and programs in alignment with the corporate governance process;
• Drive efficiency through the use of standardized T&D engineering design and materials;
• Serve as a focal point for all project initialization matters and be responsible for meeting all project‑related objectives.

• Project Initialization: Provide advanced project‑management expertise to develop the scope for T&D projects and programs in sufficient detail to create a schedule and cost class‑level estimates that can be used for initialization. Anticipate challenges, develop strategies and collaborate with planning and other departments to finalize scopes, evaluate alternatives, develop schedules, costs and risks and align with the corporate budget process.
• Project Planning: Confirm and clarify scope, stakeholders, requirements, expectations, goals, objectives, deliverables, constraints, risks and milestones. Plan, organize, and manage all project initiation tasks, resources, schedule, costs, controls, risk and contingency measures, performance criteria and communication, budgeting and support activities.
• Alternatives Evaluation: Evaluate alternative scenarios to achieve a functional project scope, identify schedule and cost implications, and assess potential risks.
• Drive Efficiency: Utilise standardized T&D engineering design and materials; work with engineering and procurement to ensure appropriate materials and equipment; develop, monitor and analyse metrics and KPIs for performance.
• Project Team Management: Provide leadership and direction, secure commitment across all levels, ensure resources, information and direction are available, assess progress and performance and recommend actions to achieve project initiation milestones.
• Industry Knowledge & Department Support: Keep up to date with leading practices, participate in industry and internal committees, support the manager in developing systems and processes to facilitate smooth functioning.
• Participate in company emergency response activities as assigned.

• In‑depth knowledge of the principles and practices of project engineering, project management, and construction methods associated with electric utility transmission and/or distribution, normally acquired through relevant experience.
• In‑depth knowledge of project and program management, including Earned Value analysis.
• Working knowledge…