WGL-Manager - Program Planning and Cost Control

Job Description

Position Summary

The Manager, Program Planning and Cost Control is a people leader responsible for coordinating Washington Gas’s (VA, DC, and MD) capital program planning activities, forecasting, financial performance monitoring, resourcing, contracting support, and maintaining associated decision documentation within the Project Management Office (PMO). This role ensures alignment between strategic business objectives, project execution plans, and financial governance processes. The manager works with executive leadership, finance, engineering, construction, and project teams to improve portfolio visibility, cost predictability, contracting/resourcing, and overall program performance.


Tasks and Responsibilities

• Lead project and program planning activities across multiple programs in Virginia, Maryland and DC.
• Develop and maintain portfolio financial data, schedules, and execution strategies in a consistent manner.
• Lead team responsible for invoicing, cost analysis, and controlling a $2B 5-year capital plan
• Coordinate a cross-functional capital program and project planning efforts between PMO, Finance, Engineering, Construction, and Procurement teams to ensure portfolio objectives are met.
• Provide annual and multi-year capital improvement planning processes, governance, and documentation.  Including Develop, Maintain, Improve Governance processes related to corporate capital investment planning tool, and associated resource planning.
• Monitor program milestones, dependencies, risks, and resourcing with budgets / program plans / competing priorities. 
• Ensure budget alignment with approved business cases and funding authorizations occur in compliance with applicable processes and policies.
• Evaluate impacts of scope changes, schedule shifts, and emerging business needs.
• Responsible for development of annual capital budget submittals for programs and projects to align company objectives with financial and associated execution plans.
• Lead reforecasting through coordination across capital stakeholder group to ensure portfolio level project plans and execution plans remain in sync with financial plans.  Provide recommendations for leadership.
• Analyze forecast variances, spending trends, earned value, and financial performance indicators.
• Responsible for partnering with Supply chain on contract structuring, pricing analysis, cost escalations, and cost control measures related to construction and paving.
• Support long-range financial planning and scenario analysis.
• Support enterprise resource capacity planning and workload forecasting.
• Assist leadership in strategic investment planning and prioritization.
• Support organizational planning initiatives and PMO maturity improvements.
• Develop and/or support responses to regulatory data requests.
• Fulfill obligations from Business to Internal Audit, External Audit, SOX Controls, and associated requests related to project planning or performance.

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, Project Management, Finance, other applicable field, or equivalent experience required.
• 7 years of experience in PMO, project controls, program management, financial planning, or capital   program management.
• Experience managing large-scale capital programs or utility/infrastructure portfolios preferred.
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, and portfolio reporting.
• Experience working with executive leadership and governance boards.
• Working knowledge of the utility regulatory process including experience in preparing support artifacts for use in a regulatory or legal setting preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of corporate accounting and budgeting processes
• Proven ability to develop strategies to correlate and leverage systems data to measure and manage processes
• Working knowledge of federal, state and local regulations of natural gas systems e.g., DOT CFR 49 Part 192 a plus
• Strong organizational and leadership skills to quickly and effectively redirect resources to meet ever   changing business needs
• Ability to assess strategic implications of decisions and possible scenarios under evaluation
• Ability to establish rapport and effective working relationships, negotiate successful agreements and resolve disputes with involved parties
• Ability to conceptualize and analyze multiple scenarios in solving broadly defined business problems and effectively work across business units to implement solutions
• Ability to effectively communicate complex messages to diverse audiences at all organization levels
• Ability to successfully influence/persuade to achieve desired business outcomes

We offer a competitive salary range of $123,800 to $180,125 per year, commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition, we provide a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

The Company values diversity in its workforce and encourages United States military veterans and service members who meet the qualifications to apply 

Why work at AltaGas?

AltaGas is a North American energy infrastructure company with a focus on owning and operating assets that provides affordable energy to our customers. AltaGas assets include Washington Gas/WGL, SEMCO, and Petrogas. Our talented team, nearly 3,000 strong, leverages the strength of our assets and expertise along the energy value chain to connect customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers to the doorsteps of homes and businesses to new markets around the world.

We deliver affordable natural gas to approximately 1.7 million customers’ homes and businesses through regulated natural gas distribution utilities across four jurisdictions in the United States and two regulated natural gas storage utilities in the United States. Learn more about our team, vision, and strategy.

To learn more about our mission:  https://youtu.be/k1mrKDdsYW8?si=y1k3NOyHxgf4emdL

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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.