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. Overview 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. Responsibilities **Essential Functions** • 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. • Participate 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. Including but not limited to 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 project team to develop and implement corrective actions when safety, schedule, scope, or costs impacts are forecasted or experienced. • Ensures RIE contractors have approved work plans and fully understand the scope and requirements for performing work. This also includes the performance of safety briefings, job walk-downs, and job site assessments. • Supervise and conduct contractor briefings in accordance with GSP 19. • Ensure completeness and quality of construction workmanship before accepting the finished product, 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. • Maintain 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. • If applicable, 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. This is 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 the need to work after-hours, outside of your normal schedule. Qualifications **Required Education** Bachelor's degree or comparable degree with 5 years’ relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience **Required 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 **Preferred Qualifications** • 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. \#RIE \#INDRIE \#RIE \#INDRIE **Required Education** Bachelor's degree or comparable degree with 5 years’ relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience **Required 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 **Preferred Qualifications** • 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. \#RIE \#INDRIE \#RIE \#INDRIE **Essential Functions** • 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. • Participate 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. Including but not limited to 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 project team to develop and implement corrective actions when safety, schedule, scope, or costs impacts are forecasted or experienced. • Ensures RIE contractors have approved work plans and fully understand the scope and requirements for performing work. This also includes the performance of safety briefings, job walk-downs, and job site assessments. • Supervise and conduct contractor briefings in accordance with GSP 19. • Ensure completeness and quality of construction workmanship before accepting the finished product, 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. • Maintain 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. • If applicable, 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. This is 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 the need to work after-hours, outside of your normal schedule. Remote Work The company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both. Assigned work location may change. In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers. Equal Employment Opportunity Our company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identify, genetic information, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.