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, and 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 conceptual design and engineering phase of a project, including 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 Siting, Real Estate, Permitting, Procurement, and Engineering groups to ensure concurrence with the construction plan associated with the project.
• Works with 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 manages Construction Quality and Asset Commissioning functions of a project.
• Provides regular project status, feedback, and critical‑path items to RIE Construction Management, Engineering, and Project Management Groups.
• Maintains working knowledge of industry construction best practices and applications at RIE.
• Ability to travel throughout the RIE service territory; this is a regional‑based position.
• Performs in‑person supervision of employees to ensure compliance with FLSA wage and hour issues and monitors compliance with safety rules.
• Includes all positions where driving is an essential function of the job in safety‑sensitive classification.
• May be assigned a RIE emergency and storm role, which may require working after‑hours or outside normal schedule during emergencies.

Bachelor's degree or comparable degree with 5 years of 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, and communication with internal and…