Project Manager Operations at Kentucky American Water in Lexington, Kentucky

Job Description:

Diversity of backgrounds, ideas, thoughts, and experiences is vital to our culture and the way we do business.  Creating an environment where differences are embraced and where every person feels engaged and included makes us safer, stronger, and more successful.

With a history dating back to 1886, American Water is the largest and most geographically diverse U.S. publicly traded water and wastewater utility company.  The company employs more than 7,000 dedicated professionals who provide regulated and market-based drinking water, wastewater and other related services to 15 million people in 46 states.  American Water provides safe, clean, affordable and reliable water services to our customers to help make sure we keep their lives flowing.  For more information, visit amwater.com and follow American Water on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Primary Role

• Support the operations and functional areas by managing projects that support investment, growth and continuous improvement

Key Accountabilities

• Proactively build and maintain strong customer relationships; maintain consistent communication, manage customer needs and expectations by meeting project timelines


• Prepares correspondence/provides information for distribution and/or presentation to other agencies, municipal departments, general public, special interest groups, property owners, consultants.


• Manage relationships with assigned areas of the company for the purpose of driving continuous improvement and delivering projects.


• Support activities at all stages of new acquisitions, including relationship building, research, review of proposals, polling, due diligence, public communication, asset control development, customer integration and other related activities which may include after hours work.


• Work with assigned business areas to identify opportunities, prioritize, select/assign and execute projects to successful completion by working with management and project teams.


• Use critical thinking methods to demonstrate opportunity and execute for continuous improvement.


• Identify opportunities, charter (establish goals and scope) and execute projects to successful outcome. Work with business leaders as sponsors and process owners to realize goals of projects.


• Lead project teams and manage performance in a matrix organization.


• Perform complex data analysis, gather data through SAP/BI and develop process controls through analytics and statistical methods.


• Ensuring that appropriate Safety Management systems are established and implemented for all projects.

Knowledge/Skills

• Advanced knowledge and use of office productivity tools (MS Office,


• Lotus Notes, etc.) Enterprise systems knowledge, SAP preferred,


• Statistical package experience (Minitab, SAS, SPSS or similar).


• General knowledge of operations and customer billing practices, project management and construction management practices, and contract administration


• Knowledge of applicable state and federal regulations


• Knowledge of company procedures, policies and operations


• Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Lotus Notes, and SAP


• Strong project management skills (e.g. planning, organizing, directing, monitoring and reporting on project activities).


• A strong sense of organization and schedule, ability to self-direct and prioritize a large number of often non-sequential tasks on multiple concurrent projects.


• Project planning skills: Good verbal and written communication skills (e.g. , presentation, listening, report writing).


• Computer literacy. Competent in the use of word processing, spreadsheets, flow-charting, project scheduling. SAP experience preferred.


• Financial analysis skill, including budget management, business modeling, and basic accounting knowledge.

Experience/Education

• Four year undergraduate degree preferred and experience


• 3 years or greater practical business experience in functional or operational role with regulated utility or comparable business organization.

Travel Requirements

• 20% but could be more or less depending on the project demands which will vary

Work Environment

• Typical office environment but will vary based upon project demands

Competencies

Champions safety

Collaborates

Cultivates innovation

Customer obsessed

Drives Results

Nimble learning

Join American Water...We Keep Life Flowing™

American Water is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because he or she is an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.

 

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