Supervisor - Distribution Operations

Company Summary Statement Rhode Island Energy provides essential energy services to over 770,000 customers across Rhode Island through the delivery of electricity or natural gas. Our team is dedicated to helping Rhode Island customers and communities thrive while supporting the transition to a cleaner energy future. Rhode Island Energy is part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies addressing energy challenges head‑on by building smarter, more resilient, and more dynamic power grids and advancing sustainable energy solutions.

PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.

The Supervisor Distribution Operations leads and manages Rhode Island Energy's (RIE) Construction Management functions throughout the lifecycle of a project. Responsible for ensuring projects are planned, designed, constructed, and commissioned in a manner consistent with RIE's specified policies and procedures.

• Responsible for field leadership and oversight of all contracted construction work; ensuring safe completion of the defined scope of work on budget, on schedule, and to the quality levels specified in the contracts.
• Manages or self‑performs activities and tasks to successfully contract out RIE work including outage planning, outage submission, permit & tag, switching, construction scope of work, managing contractor crews, verifying material delivery.
• Participates in the review and award of construction proposals with RIE Sourcing; understands the terms and conditions in contracts and manages construction contractors to terms and conditions. Reviews and approves construction change orders for work not in scope or changes to scope of work. Participates in claims dispute and resolution sessions. Verifies contractor invoices, ensuring work invoiced has been completed.
• Manages or self‑performs constructability assessments during the conceptual design and engineering phase of a project, identifying physical site requirements, access roads, laydown areas, pad sizes, equipment parameters, cost estimates, outage planning, construction sequencing, risk assessment, and scheduling.
• Reviews deliverables from the Siting, Real Estate, Permitting, Procurement, and Engineering groups to ensure concurrence with the construction plan associated with a project.
• Work with the project team to develop and implement corrective actions when safety, schedule, scope, or cost impacts are forecasted or experienced.
• Ensures RIE contractors have approved work plans and fully understand the scope and requirements for performing work, including safety briefings, job walk‑downs, and job site assessments.
• Supervises and conducts contractor briefings in accordance with GSP 19.
• Ensures completeness and quality of construction workmanship before accepting the finished product and is responsible for managing the Construction Quality and Asset Commissioning functions of a project.
• Provides regular project status, feedback, and critical path items to the RIE Construction Management, Engineering, and Project Management Groups.
• Maintains working knowledge of industry construction best practices and applications at RIE.
• Has the ability to travel throughout the RIE service territory as this is a regional‑based position.
• If applicable, provides in‑person supervision of employees to ensure compliance with FLSA wage and hour issues as well as to monitor compliance with safety rules.
• All positions in which driving is an essential function of the job, regardless if the job code is marked safety sensitive or not, will also be included as safety sensitive.
• May be assigned a RIE emergency and storm role, a special assignment that comes into play during storms and other emergencies when the company needs to restore power or respond to other issues affecting customer service. This role may necessitate working after‑hours, outside of the normal schedule.

Bachelor's degree or comparable degree with 5 years’ relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 2+ years of experience in construction, operations, or maintenance.
• Leadership skills, work management, and job planning experience.
• Organizational skills, ability to multi‑task, communication with internal and external customers, and people skills.

• Bachelor's Degree, Project Management professional (PMP), or Certified Construction Manager (CCM) certification.
• Two years of experience as a construction or project manager in the power industry.
• Supervisory experience.
• Working knowledge of critical‑path‑method scheduling tools and project budgets, and/or industry investigation tools.