Southern Company · 1 day ago
Program Manager
Atlanta, GA, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expSouthern Company is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond. They are seeking a Program Manager to manage medium to large scale fixed asset projects related to natural gas peaking and storage facility construction, ensuring compliance with company standards and successful project execution.
EnergyNatural ResourcesNuclear
Responsibilities
Ensure the Company’s safety philosophy is engrained in all aspects of the business and within each project and program
Implement project management strategies to successfully manage high risk, complex, and high-cost asset development projects, programs, and strategic opportunities
Champion the Company’s stage-gated Asset Development Process (ADP) ensuring that projects and programs are executed accordingly, and lead projects through ADP Stages as applicable including Stage Gate Reviews
Ensure compliance with Company policies, procedures, and processes to support the asset development in a safe, cost effective, and timely manner
Establish and manage budgets and funding levels for assigned projects and programs, and ensure monthly financials forecasts and reports are prepared including updated estimates, schedules, and variance explanations
Establish and maintain project schedules utilizing Project Controls Scheduler or other resource
Monitor project procurement activities to acquire equipment, materials, and services as needed, including strong contract management to ensure contractors and suppliers adhere to commercial and technical contract requirements, execute deviations through proper change management, and ensure contractor invoices and payments are reviewed and compliant per contract
Establish and maintain excellent working relationships and partnerships with peers, senior leadership, external contractors and vendors by engaging various Stakeholders, including Gatekeepers, Sponsors, Track Leads, Functional Leads, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure communication levels are appropriate, financial information is accurate
Champion Risk Management including identification, management, and mitigation throughout the life of the project or program
Drive change and champion Continuous Improvement and Lessons Learned principles by leading project teams through Lessons Learned review at each project Stage, and when appropriate follow through on broader process improvement initiatives
Ensure that project job records, as-builts, other job documentation are secured from internal and external parties and are distributed to appropriate Office of Record for permanent retention
Participate in business, industry, and community associations as appropriate to advocate company values and interests while demonstrating industry leadership
Support Regulatory initiatives as needed including preparation of filings, testimony review, and support of data requests responses
Qualification
Required
BA/BS in Engineering (Mechanical, Civil, or Electrical), or other relevant work experience
5+ years' experience working in the natural gas transmission, distribution or related energy field
3+ years leading project planning and execution
Contractor management
Strong engineering knowledge. Prefer knowledge of natural gas peaking, storage, and transmission systems, gas engineering principles and theories, and DOT pipeline safety regulations
Strong construction knowledge. Prefer knowledge of natural gas and multi-discipline process facility construction
Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects
Ability to communicate with all levels in the organization
Ability to influence and persuade in decision making
Experience preparing project cost estimates, forecasts and developing project schedules, preferably in natural gas transmission systems, natural gas distribution systems, LNG, gas engineering principles and theories, and DOT pipeline safety regulations
Ability to use project management tools and methods (e.g., earned value analysis, critical path scheduling, project administration, establishing project teams)
Experience developing, initiating, and managing contracts and bid solicitations
MS Office - intermediate proficiency, especially with Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Preferred
MBA, Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Engineer (PE)
Project Management experience including leading project team and stakeholder status meetings
Experience managing projects
Benefits
Competitive base salary
Annual incentive awards for eligible employees
Health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
Incentive program
Company
Southern Company
Southern Company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the shared services division of Southern Company.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.16BKey Investors
GRIP Program
2025-10-03Post Ipo Equity· $1.75B
2025-05-20Post Ipo Debt· $1.45B
2024-10-21Grant· $160M
Leadership Team
Thomas Fanning
President and CEO
David Poroch
Chief Financial Officer
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