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Program Manager - Electric Distribution at CARIAN | LAYIQ

· Lead overall execution of a major electric distribution capital program and support achievement of program goals, priorities, and performance objectives.
· Develop and implement program execution strategies, processes, procedures, governance, and delivery plans.
· Provide leadership and coordination across a multidisciplinary team of project managers, engineers, project controls professionals, construction personnel, contractors, and other program resources.
· Work directly with utility leadership and key stakeholders to communicate program status, priorities, risks, issues, decisions, and required actions.
· Oversee delivery of multiple concurrent electric distribution capital projects from planning and project development through engineering, procurement, construction, closeout, and turnover.
· Coordinate resource planning and deployment across the program to support project priorities and delivery requirements.
· Monitor program budgets, forecasts, schedules, milestones, risks, and overall performance.
· Partner with project controls teams to maintain consistent cost, schedule, forecasting, and performance-management practices across the program.
· Establish and maintain effective program reporting, dashboards, data-management processes, and performance metrics to support management decision-making.
· Identify program-level risks, constraints, dependencies, and emerging issues and drive timely resolution and escalation.
· Coordinate across engineering, project management, construction, operations, planning, procurement, permitting, real estate, environmental, outage coordination, and other functions as required.
· Support development and maintenance of integrated program schedules, capital plans, resource plans, and delivery forecasts.
· Drive consistent project-management practices, documentation standards, reporting requirements, and governance across the program.
· Review project and program performance to identify trends, delivery risks, process gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
· Support resolution of complex scope, cost, schedule, contractor, engineering, and stakeholder issues.
· Maintain strong alignment between program leadership, project teams, utility stakeholders, and external partners.
· Support quality assurance and quality control requirements and reinforce compliance with applicable client, company, and site safety requirements.
· Lead continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen program execution, reporting, controls, coordination, and overall delivery performance.

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline from an accredited institution.
· 10+ years of relevant experience in utility, engineering, construction, infrastructure, consulting, project management, or program management environments.
· Significant experience managing large, complex capital projects or programs involving multiple projects, stakeholders, disciplines, and delivery teams.
· Strong understanding of electric utility capital-project delivery, preferably within electric distribution.
· Demonstrated experience with program planning, project execution, budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, risk management, project controls, and performance reporting.
· Experience leading and coordinating multidisciplinary project and program teams.
· Ability to work directly with senior client leadership and communicate complex program information clearly and effectively.
· Strong leadership, facilitation, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
· Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, resolve issues, and drive accountability across multiple workstreams.
· Strong written and verbal communication skills.
· Working knowledge of project-management methodologies, project controls practices, and program-management tools.
· Proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with scheduling, reporting, project-management, or portfolio-management systems.
· Ability to travel to client, project, and utility locations as required.
Preferred Experience
· Experience managing electric distribution capital programs for an investor-owned utility, electric utility, engineering firm, or utility consulting organization.
· Experience leading programs or portfolios with capital investment exceeding $250 million.
· Experience with distribution substations, feeders, transformers, system reliability, capacity upgrades, asset replacement, grid modernization, or related distribution infrastructure.
· Experience overseeing projects through planning, engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
· Experience with integrated cost and schedule controls, forecasting, performance metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting.
· Experience coordinating engineering firms, construction contractors, vendors, and utility operating organizations.
· Experience implementing standardized processes, procedures, governance, and project-management tools across large capital programs.
· Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar scheduling and project-management tools.
· PMP or other recognized project/program management certification preferred.
Why CARIAN
Purpose-driven work –
Help deliver infrastructure that powers communities
Industry reputation –
Trusted by leading utilities for our reliability and results
Career growth –
Help build CARIAN's commercial organization and play a direct role in the company's continued expansion
Collaborative culture –

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