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Capital Projects Senior Manager - Utilities
Quebec - Montreal
Job No. r00242963
Full-time - Hybrid
Job Description
We are:
Looking to be part of a transformational digital engineering and manufacturing practice? How about an opportunity to help world-class clients solve their biggest challenges and create products and services that customers love - quickly, efficiently and sustainably?
Industry X combines Accenture’s powerful digital capabilities with deep engineering and manufacturing expertise. We use the power of data and digital to help our clients reimagine the products they make, and how they make them. By connecting engineering and manufacturing operations every step of the way - from how products are designed and engineered, sourced and supplied, manufactured, to how they are serviced and renewed, we help them achieve greater productivity, drive growth and meet their sustainability commitments. Find out more about Industry X.
You are: A seasoned project execution practitioner and senior manager with expertise in designing, planning and executing greenfield and brownfield build, expansion and refurbishment projects in power generation or transmission & distribution utilities. You’re a wizard with understanding the capital project lifecycle and when it comes to sharing ideas with the C-suite. You’re a natural leader with an eye to the future, a finger on the pulse of industry best practices and digital solutions, and the know-how to help clients transform the way they execute projects to reduce risk and ensure on-time / on-budget delivery while creating engagement and a meaningful experience for workers.
The Work:
- Lead utilities client teams and solution architects to define requirements, design and map optimized business processes for efficient capital projects delivery and create functional design documents.
- Support piloting of process changes and new software and help clients adopt to new digital processes and tools.
- Lead engagement teams to implement and integrate project management, execution, and controls solutions.
- Lead engagement teams to complete fit-gap analyses and support the definition of roadmaps to transform capital projects delivery.
- Lead engagement teams to build the strategies, capabilities, systems, and processes needed to deliver against the set performance parameters.
- Provide oversight over the development of value stream mapping and business cases for capital projects
- Use new or current technology to help client complete capital projects, including planning systems, project management information systems, and reporting and analytics tools.
- Identify new business opportunities and lead business development pursuits
- Lead and drive collaboration with Industry X and other internal leaders to prepare RFP responses, pricing and budgetary proposals
Role Expectations
- Identify strategies for growth and value creation within Industry X and for our Power Generation and Utilities clients
- Interact with senior management levels at a client and within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters
- Work with clients to assess their current and desired capability maturity, and develop innovative solutions to drive success
- Become a champion of Industry X integrated workforce solutions, tools, and platforms
- Transform organizations to digital processes and tools
- Ability to stay up to date on industry competitive landscape and technology
- Analyze clients' strategy, operating vision, business needs and capabilities
- Build relationships with ecosystem partners, clients, stakeholders
- Manage engagement teams in support of the delivery of projects across our services including Strategy & Consulting and Technology Consulting
- Leverage personal and collective team subject matter experience to drive leading practices-based outcomes
- Responsible for the day-to-day delivery activities of our projects including budget, cost performance, and project delivery
- Recruit, train, and mentor junior professionals within Industry X
- Ability to work in a quick, agile growing practice while still working within Industry X’s overall sales parameters
- Willingness to maintain a flexible travel schedule
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- BS or B Eng in a related Engineering field (Electrical Engineering, Process Engineering, etc.) or 10+ years professional work experience in the Power Generation / Transmission & Distribution industries
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in Project Management/Project systems including Oracle Primavera, Oracle Unifier, Hexagon EcoSys, E-Builder, Kahua or similar technologies
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in capital projects management, asset management, construction execution, project management, and/or project controls, particularly in the Power Generation / Transmission & Distribution industry
- English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with internal stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language.
- French is also required for this position as this role will regularly interact with French speaking client stakeholders within Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these French-speaking client stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience managing the delivery of transformational services in the Power Generation / Transmission & Distribution utilities industry
- Experience in best practices, root cause analysis, criticality analysis and project life-cycle management
- Proven ability to deliver management consulting projects with a focus on strategies for best practices
- Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Program management and service delivery expertise to include resource planning, staffing, and status reporting
- Customer relationship management and deep skills in expectation management
- Industry certifications such as CCM, CCC, CCE, PSP, EVM, PE, PMP, AIA, CUW, CET and/or QS
