Utilities Program Manager

K&A Power Group – is a privately held engineering firm delivering worldclass technical expertise and engineering excellence to power utility and industrial clients across the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We provide comprehensive consulting, engineering and design, program and project management, construction management, and EPC services, specializing in substation, transmission, distribution, and distributed energy resources.
We pride ourselves on attracting and developing top talent, building a culture of excellence, and building meaningful, long-term relationships with our employees, clients and communities, wherever they are in the world.

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We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Program Manager to join our team at K&A Power Group in Rochester, New York. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people-focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will be valued and celebrated.

• Lead a multi-discipline team through the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction phases of different programs.
• Create and maintain an attitude of leadership towards the contractor's project team with respect to overall management activities (including quality assurance, engineering, procurement, planning and controls, construction management, commissioning, industrial labor relations and safety) to achieve quality programs, while respecting the established budget and schedule objectives.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing and delivering the overall program and its activities in accordance with the goals of the organization.
• Focus on SPI and CPI performance indicators as decision drivers.
• Oversight of scheduling/cost controllers and activities.
• Preparing and completing action plans; implementing and reporting on production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying risks, resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining improvements; implementing change.
• Meets Avangrid objectives by preparing Program Initiation and Program Management Plan, executing plan requirements, analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Development of On Boarding, Training and Resource Retention Plan
• Achieve efficiencies by accepting responsibility and accountability for results, accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to the Avangrid organization.
• Develop and execute a program evaluation framework to assess the strengths of the program and to identify areas to target for improvement.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing and delivering the overall program and its activities in accordance with the goals of the organization. In charge of handling all aspects of technical programs for their organization.
• Interfaces with the Executive sponsors, business leaders and stakeholders to make sure all requirements captured.
• Focus on SPI and CPI performance indicators as decision drivers.
• Oversight of scheduling/cost controllers and activities. This person will work with SMEs, estimators and procurement present accurate project budgets.
• Preparing and completing action plans; implementing and reporting on production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying risks, resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining improvements; implementing change.
• Meets Avangrid objectives by preparing Program Initiation and Program Management Plan, executing plan requirements, analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Development of On Boarding, Training and…