FirstEnergy at a Glance

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. [FEU].

This position manages a team of project development employees. The manager is responsible for the full breadth of management of his/her team including scheduling, workflow management, mentoring, coaching, and leadership of the team. The manager is responsible for ensuring that the quality of the product developed by the team meets expectations and that tasks are completed to meet due dates.

The manager will lead the project development efforts. The manager will be responsible for the team’s forecasts, resource plans (labor, equipment, and material), and schedules of projects during the project development phase. This includes responsibility for the managing, monitoring, and controlling of projects to ensure that they safely achieve the project deliverables within the approved scope, schedule, and budget. The manager will lead by example, educate, and direct others on technical subject matters and is responsible for solving highly complex problems and/or managing highly complex projects. Project Development occurs during the project development phase of the PLMP Process.The goal of the project development phase is to refine projects to minimize unknowns/risks by developing detailed scopes, estimates, schedules, and execution plans while interacting with multiple internal/external teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop, coach and mentor the team.

• Provide strategic vision of process improvements to develop overall best practices.

• Monitor, track and report on overall team progress. Provide project status reports including recurring, standard and ad hoc reports that address the status of scope, budget, and schedule for the assigned projects. Develop reports that identify risks with a mitigation strategy. Develop and maintain project status documents for handoff to project management organization.

• Provide technical review of project solution. Facilitate the refinement of project scope documents. Develop, with input of project team, the strategic and tactical execution plan for the project. Review project documents for clarity and completeness -- examples include scope documents, project plans, estimates, permitting, ROW acquisition and material ordering.

• Facilitate the process of identifying and mitigating risks associated with proposed projects. The team will coordinate multiple internal support teams to ensure project assumptions are vetted and resolved. This will include hosting site walk downs to determine/resolve project constructability concerns. Having established constructability, the team will then determine the preliminary outage sequencing and availability with operations.

• Throughout the project vetting process, the team will establish forecasts and schedules and maintain them until the project is ready for release to execution.

• Coordinate major equipment needs to ensure efficient project execution.

• Develop and review individual capital project financial reports and forecasts that support Portfolio Management business targets and controls.

• Facilitate and participate with other groups and departments for continuous improvement and development of business process controls.

• Ensure change management protocols are followed to maintain complete documentation of changes in scope, schedule, and cost.

• Develop and communicate lessons learned by leading project review process.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Construction, or Project Management with 10 years of experience preferred. Consideration will be given to non-degreed candidates with over 15 years of experience related to project/construction management.

• Project and/or Construction Management background is preferred.

• Demonstrated supervision of employees is preferred.

• Strong project management skills are required with a demonstrated ability to develop, manage, and control multiple tasks.

• Experience with a project management tool such as Primavera, MS Project, etc. with related Scheduling/Resource Planning expertise is preferred.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication skills and strong analytical abilities are required.

Benefits, Compensation & Workforce Diversity

At FirstEnergy, employees are key to our success. We depend on their talents to meet the challenges of our changing business environment. We are committed to rewarding individual and team efforts through our total rewards philosophy which includes competitive pay plus incentive compensation, a company-sponsored pension plan, 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution, a choice of medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance programs, as well as skills development training with tuition reimbursement. Please visit our website at www.firstenergycorp.com to learn more about all of our employee rewards programs. FirstEnergy proudly supports workforce diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. No recruiters or agencies without a previously signed contract. Unable to sponsor or transfer H-1B visas at this time.

Safety

Safety is a core value for FirstEnergy and is essential to all of our business activities. We ensure employees have the tools, information, and processes to perform their duties in a manner that assures safety for themselves, their co-workers, our customers and the public. Our goals are to provide a safe work environment, to maintain an accident-free, injury-free workplace, and to promote and maintain public safety. To meet these goals, we dedicate ourselves to achieving world-class safety standards.