The CARIAN Group

The CARIAN Group

Program Manager - Electric Distribution

Akron, Ohio · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
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About the role

  • This senior leadership role will be responsible for coordinating and driving program execution across a portfolio of electric distribution projects from planning and development through engineering, construction, closeout, and turnover.
  • Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Coordinate resource planning and deployment across the program to support project priorities and delivery requirements.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Work directly with utility leadership and key stakeholders to communicate program status, priorities, risks, issues, decisions, and required actions.
  • Coordinate across engineering, project management, construction, operations, planning, procurement, permitting, real estate, environmental, outage coordination, and other functions as required.
  • Significant experience managing large, complex capital projects or programs involving multiple projects, stakeholders, disciplines, and delivery teams.
  • 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.
  • Ability to travel to client, project, and utility locations as required.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Experience

Compensation

  • Competitive total rewards – Strong compensation, full benefits, 401(k) match, and meaningful work

Company info

  • CARIAN is a purpose-driven, woman-owned consulting and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to the power sector.
  • We partner with leading electric and gas utilities to provide strategic advisory and disciplined execution across program management, business intelligence, and field execution oversight.
  • Guided by integrity, trust, excellence, and accountability, our team helps deliver complex capital programs and build the resilient energy infrastructure that communities depend on.
  • CARIAN is seeking an experienced Program Manager - Electric Distribution to support the delivery of a major electric utility capital program.
  • Provide leadership and coordination across a multidisciplinary team of project managers, engineers, project controls professionals, construction personnel, contractors, and other program resources.
  • Oversee delivery of multiple concurrent electric distribution capital projects from planning and project development through engineering, procurement, construction, closeout, and turnover.
  • Monitor program budgets, forecasts, schedules, milestones, risks, and overall performance.
  • Position Overview
  • The Program Manager will work directly with utility leadership, project managers, engineers, project controls, construction teams, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered safely, consistently, and in alignment with program objectives.
  • The ideal candidate has significant experience leading large utility or infrastructure capital programs, strong knowledge of electric distribution project delivery, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, teams, risks, budgets, schedules, and stakeholders within a complex program environment.
  • 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.
  • Qualifications

Equal opportunity

  • CARIAN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • We hire and develop talent based on qualifications, performance, and business needs.
  • As a woman-owned firm dedicated to the power sector, we are committed to building a team that reflects professionalism, expertise, and integrity at every level.
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