Project Coordinator I, II or Sr.

Company Summary Statement : Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, are regulated utilities that serve more than 1.3 million customers and have consistently ranked among the best companies for customer service in the United States. LG&E serves 334,000 natural gas and 433,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties. KU serves 569,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia. LG&E and KU are major employers and active supporters of the communities they serve. They empower employees, community members and initiatives across their service territory through volunteerism and investments in organizations that support education, sustainability and wellbeing. Overview:

Under general supervision, this position provides project management services to the Transmission Department for the execution of projects that will have a measurable impact on LG&E and KU's operations and/or investment planning. Projects are somewhat complex, costly, and consequential to Company. Position ensures that project estimating, planning, design, construction, and closure are safely completed within time, budget, and scope that meets the customer's needs. Will work with some autonomy while receiving occasional guidance from Manager. Accountabilities for all Project Coordinator levels are essentially the same but will be performed at varying proficiency levels.

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

• Manages “scope, schedule, and budget” for simultaneous portfolio of Transmission projects.
• Provides project management for medium projects. Schedules project activities and logistics of projects. Maintains an understanding of the full life cycle of project management and demonstrates the ability to fulfill the cycle to bring projects to successful completion.
• Works to assist Senior Project Coordinator for larger more complex projects and may serve as the co-project lead.
• Regularly provides guidance and training to less experienced staff.
• Develops project work plans, including milestones, critical path identification, float, engineering, material delivery, outage schedules, and construction activities.
• Effectively communicates with clients, peers and departmental management in business matters, focusing on the underlying business benefit and/or impact of proposed action.
• Resolves project changes, problems (risks), and ensures remedies are implemented to ensure project schedule is maintained.
• Achieves effective coordination and harmonious departmental relations through regular communication, leading project meetings, and reporting.
• Coordinates both in-house resources and contracted resources, both engineering and construction.
• Acts as an intervener to assure dues dates per project plans are met.
• Work with project engineers to understand and track departmental accruals for capital material and contract labor as necessary.
• Independently interacts with departmental business partners to address routine financial, service and business matters. Recommends action on issues involving equipment acquisition and maintenance, contract negotiation, acquisition financing and consultancy requirements.
• Addresses routine financial management accountabilities by gathering, compiling and analyzing appropriate investment and/or expenditure data and preparing needed schedules and reports in specified formats. Participates in more complex analyses with assistance from more experienced peers or supervision.
• Achieves effective coordination and harmonious departmental relations through regular communication, leading project meetings, and reporting.
• Assures timely development of business cases, investment proposals, and financial approvals.
• Work with the Sourcing department and project engineers in the timely and cost-effective purchase of project capital materials and contract services.
• Establishes project teams which provide the most economic mix of available qualified internal personnel, consultant, and contractor personnel.
• Independently interacts with internal clients to identify improvement opportunities through the project lifecycle.
• Leads and coordinates post-project review meetings and activities for project quality review and closure.
• Participates in internal committees to define and implement continuous improvement.
• Provides input into performance reviews of project team members.
• Ensures local permitting and state and federal regulatory commitments are achieved within budgetary and scheduling constraints.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications:

Minumum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management or with project management emphasis
• Working knowledge of state and federal regulations and requirements which apply to major design and construction projects.
• Ability to use project management control programs.
• Knowledge of computer processing of cost and schedule information.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of concepts and principles related to managing large and small projects on the electric transmission and distribution and information technology systems.
• Ability to serve in a leadership role.
• Working knowledge of technical issues faced in implementation of wide variety of Transmission Lines projects.

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