Manager Transmission Portfolio Management - Portfolio Management - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

FirstEnergy

About the Opportunity

Manager, Transmission Portfolio Strategy & Execution

The Manager, Transmission Portfolio Strategy & Execution leads a team responsible for planning, governing, and managing FirstEnergy's Transmission Capital Portfolio, including the development of the five-year capital plan (approximately $3B annually) while overseeing the technical review, financial approval, and execution release of the annual portfolio.

This role provides strategic leadership for portfolio planning, forecasting, risk management, resource alignment, and process improvement. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering, Asset Management, Planning, Finance, Rates, Environmental, IT Networks, and Operating Companies to ensure portfolio investments support business objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term system needs.

This position will be located in Akron, OH. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of portfolio management professionals.
• Foster an environment that promotes employee engagement, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate and lead discussions with stakeholder groups to evaluate, prioritize, and onboard projects into the long-term capital plan.
• Ensure portfolio investments align with long-term strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and asset management plans.
• Balance portfolio priorities to support evolving business needs while maintaining alignment with approved long-range plans.
• Coordinate the development and execution release of projects from initiation to project design and construction.
• Establish and maintain portfolio controls, analytics, performance metrics, and reporting for the Transmission Capital Portfolio.
• Support forecasting of investments, labor, contractor, equipment, and material requirements.
• Ensure effective project change management is followed, documented, properly incorporated into the transmission portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in project, program, engineering, or portfolio management; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex portfolios, programs, or large-scale capital projects.
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience preferred.
• Engineering design, project scoping & estimating, transmission planning, or project management experience is preferred.
• Strong project management, forecasting, and analytical skills.
• Experience with Primavera, EcoSys, Oracle OPPM / Unifier, MS PowerBI or similar portfolio management tools preferred.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership capabilities.

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 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, maintain an accident-free, injury-free workplace, and promote and maintain public safety. To meet these goals, we dedicate ourselves to achieving world-class safety standards.