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Company Overview: The company prides itself on the team’s ability to take on high-profile, challenging projects involving several stakeholders, stringent schedule and progress reporting requirements, and multi-subcontractor coordination. The company’s core proficiencies lie in the construction, maintenance, and upgrade of electric distribution systems, substations, and transmission lines. Northline has a strong regional reputation and a demonstrated track record of strong organic growth in recent years.
Among Northline’s key competitive differentiators is a management culture that is heavily focused on safety and innovation, and a team of senior leaders with significant experience managing and growing businesses of various sizes. James Atkins, Northline’s President and Owner, began his career as a third-generation Journeyman Lineman, and represents the industry through several industry and trade associations.
Job Title: Program Manager - Testing & Commissioning / Engineering
Location: East Syracuse, NY
Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt, Not-Contract
Salary Range: $120,000 - $185,000 Base*
Travel: Local, Regional and National Travel, 15 - 20% of the time
*(compensation may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other factors)
Position Overview: The Program Manager for Testing & Commissioning (T&C) and Engineering serves as the strategic and operational leader responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing complex engineering, testing, and commissioning programs across substation, transmission, and distribution projects within the Northline footprint.
This role ensures the successful delivery of multi-year, multi-project technical initiatives by aligning engineering design, field testing, commissioning activities, and system energization with client expectations, regulatory requirements, safety standards, and financial performance across substation, transmission and distribution projects while supporting Northline’s operational excellence and growth objectives within Northline’s footprint and organizational framework.
The Program Manager drives collaboration and leadership across engineering teams, T&C crews, project management, field operations, and client stakeholders to maintain schedule, resource alignment, technical quality, and system readiness while fostering long-term client relationships and continuous improvement in engineering and commissioning practices.
Key Responsibilities:
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Provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions, equipment, and systems of work for self and all employees, and to participate in training as needed for this purpose.
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Program Oversight & Strategic Leadership - Lead planning, coordination, and execution of complex, multi-year engineering and T&C programs. Develop program strategies that align engineering deliverables, testing milestones, commissioning sequences, and energization plans with organizational goals, regulatory compliance, and client expectations. Develop and manage work and contract types aligned to create and evolve a work mix balanced approach to program risk management and sustainability.
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Project Management & Execution - Oversee a Program of engineering and T&C projects across substation, transmission, and distribution systems throughout NLU’s regional portfolio’s. Ensure adherence to technical scope, schedule, and budget for all engineering and commissioning activities. Implement best practices in engineering workflow management, commissioning documentation, project controls, reporting, and risk mitigation.
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Stakeholder Engagement - Serve as the primary liaison between Northline and clients for engineering and T&C program matters, ensuring consistent communication and satisfaction. Coordinate with internal engineering teams, T&C crews, external partners, OEMs, and regulatory agencies. Manage stakeholder expectations and promote transparent reporting, technical issue resolution, and energization readiness.
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Team & Resource Coordination - Provide leadership and direction to engineering teams, T&C crews, project managers, and field personnel including understanding and collaborating with specialty labor agreements. Ensure optimal allocation and utilization of engineering and commissioning resources across projects through leveraging NLU shared resources. Mentor junior engineering and T&C staff and contribute to technical talent development and develop sustainable bench strength facilitating NLU’s agility and scalability. Plan and organize professional development training (leadership, PMP® training, technical commissioning training, etc.) Work collaboratively across disciplines and with other Program Managers.
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Estimating and Pre-Construction Support - Oversee development and review of engineering and T&C cost estimates for complex projects, providing final oversight. Collaborate with estimating teams to ensure accuracy, completeness, and competitiveness of proposals, ensuring estimating processes are followed and appropriate technical resources are assigned. Provide strategic input during bid/no-bid decisions and RFP responses. Analyze historical engineering and commissioning data and market trends to inform estimating strategies. Validate assumptions and scope alignment between engineering estimates, commissioning plans, and project execution strategies. Support value engineering efforts and recommend cost-effective technical alternatives where appropriate.
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Financial Management - Develop and manage program budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting for engineering and T&C activities. Track project financial performance metrics and ensure alignment with Project, program and indirect cost models and targets. Develop and understanding of the marketplace and labor market in order to rive profitability and identify opportunities for cost savings, efficiency improvements, and optimized resource utilization and sustainable quality growth.
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Quality, Safety & Compliance - Ensure all engineering and T&C work is performed in compliance with NLU principles, regulatory and consensus safety standards, technical specifications, and environmental regulations. Champion a culture of safety excellence across all engineering and commissioning activities. Conduct assessments and reviews to ensure quality control, technical accuracy, and continuous improvement.
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Risk Management - Identify, assess, and mitigate program-level risks related to engineering deliverables, testing sequences, commissioning readiness, and energization. Develop contingency plans and lead technical issue resolution strategies. Ensure proactive risk communication with clients, engineering leadership, and field operations.
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Reporting & Communication - Provide regular updates to executives and stakeholders on engineering progress, T&C performance, and program status. Maintain detailed documentation and dashboards for schedule, budget, scope, technical quality, and commissioning readiness. Support project and contract management, change orders, and dispute resolution as needed.
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Client Relationship Development - Build and maintain long-term relationships with utility clients, engineering partners, and commissioning stakeholders. Anticipate client needs and recommend strategic engineering or commissioning solutions. Position Northline as a trusted partner through technical excellence, reliability, and customer focus.
Position Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering or related field is preferred. Project Management Certification (PMP) is required.
Preferred Requirements: Experienced electrical utility contracting industry manager with exposure to leading, developing and implementing large scale, ambiguous, and complex, customer-driven projects.
Northline Utilities, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
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Company Overview: The company prides itself on the team’s ability to take on high-profile, challenging projects involving several stakeholders, stringent schedule and progress reporting requirements, and multi-subcontractor coordination. The company’s core proficiencies lie in the construction, maintenance, and upgrade of electric distribution systems, substations, and transmission lines. Northline has a strong regional reputation and a demonstrated track record of strong organic growth in recent years.
Among Northline’s key competitive differentiators is a management culture that is heavily focused on safety and innovation, and a team of senior leaders with significant experience managing and growing businesses of various sizes. James Atkins, Northline’s President and Owner, began his career as a third-generation Journeyman Lineman, and represents the industry through several industry and trade associations.
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: East Syracuse, NY
Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt, Not-Contract
Salary Range: $85,000 - $145,000 Base*
Travel: Local / Regional Travel, 20 - 30% of the time
*(compensation may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other factors)
Position Overview: The Project Manager for Northline Utilities has responsibility for driving substantial revenue to support NLU’s yearly business plan and the overall planning, management and completion of projects using Northline’s High-Performance Project Management tools and resources. They will apply professional principles, practices and techniques to lead project teams and manage project schedule, cost and performance risks to ensure satisfied customers. They will also leverage and integrate key enabling functions of Northline’s Corporate Support Office to deliver work quality and to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction. They will have strong communication skills to drive open dialogue across project teams and to build a pro-active working relationship with customers to ensure requirements are met. Understanding how to effectively use Northline’s systems and processes as part of an integrated business management system will be critical and form the basis for the development of a sustained competitive advantage.
Key Responsibilities:
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Providing and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions, equipment, and systems of work for self and all employees, and to participate in training as needed for this purpose.
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Independently and successfully leads and manages Routine, Operational and Strategic Projects with Accountability.
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Plans and continues professional development training (leadership, PMP® training, strategy, etc.).
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Continuous leadership, project, and process management development (communications, agile, lean, conflict and negotiation training, etc.).
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Maintain healthy relationships with customers and key vendors; Highly customer responsive, sensitive and caring.
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May develop project estimates.
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Provides direction and guidance for APM’s and demonstrates use of best practices.
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Take managed risk to drive the successful completion of assigned projects.
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Able to read, analyze and interpret technical, financial and legal requirements to ensure customer requirements of a completed project are achieved and Northline’s risk is minimized.
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Able to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, etc., while keeping Northline’s CEO and appropriate Business Unit Manager informed.
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Strong communication skills, both verbally and written, and the ability to effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization.
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Become and remain proficient in all computer programs necessary to perform the everyday duties of the position.
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Any other duties as assigned by manager.
Position Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering or related field is preferred. A high school diploma with 5-10 years of experience in the electrical construction industry or related field will be considered. Skilled in Microsoft application software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.); Ability to quickly learn new technology. Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgment, and assertiveness. The ability to be self-directed once responsibilities and vision are communicated. Excellent customer service and ability to understand customer expectations and contractual requirements. Project Management Certification (PMP) is also preferred.
Northline Utilities, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
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Company Overview: The company prides itself on the team’s ability to take on high-profile, challenging projects involving several stakeholders, stringent schedule and progress reporting requirements, and multi-subcontractor coordination. The company’s core proficiencies lie in the construction, maintenance, and upgrade of electric distribution systems, substations, and transmission lines. Northline has a strong regional reputation and a demonstrated track record of strong organic growth in recent years.
Among Northline’s key competitive differentiators is a management culture that is heavily focused on safety and innovation, and a team of senior leaders with significant experience managing and growing businesses of various sizes. James Atkins, Northline’s President and Owner, began his career as a third-generation Journeyman Lineman, and represents the industry through several industry and trade associations.
Job Title: Associate Project Manager
Location: East Syracuse, NY
Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt, Not-Contract
Salary Range: $62,000 - $80,000 Base*
Travel: Local / Regional Travel, 10 - 15% of the time
*(compensation may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other factors)
Position Overview: The Associate Project Manager for Northline Utilities has responsibility for planning, execution and delivery of assigned projects. The Associate Project Manager will work in tandem with either Northline’s Project Managers, Business Unit Managers or other members of Northline’s management team to identify needs, prioritize, plan, track, manage and deliver projects to create customer satisfaction. They will develop and track detailed work plans for all assigned projects, prioritize tasks, identify and address scope changes, resource constraints, possible project delays, resolve delivery issues, coordinate the tracking of hours and provide status reporting for each assigned project. The Associate Project Manager will leverage and use key enabling functions of Northline’s Corporate Support Office to deliver high quality projects on time and within budget.
Key Responsibilities:
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Providing and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions, equipment, and systems of work for self and all employees, and to participate in training as needed for this purpose.
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Ensures that a culture of Safety exists within their assigned projects as the number one organizational priority.
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Understands the importance of risk management and is central to the way APM thinks, communicates and acts.
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Develops a strong working relationship with the General Foreman and other key stakeholders assigned to their projects which promotes mutual support and interaction.
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Communicates project status and information to key stakeholders, participates in project reviews with customers, and maintains the project information repository for their assigned projects.
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Recognizes problems or situations that may cause project delays or changes and evaluates alternatives to find solutions using a systematic, multi-step approach.
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Escalates these in a timely fashion to the appropriate Business Unit Manager, Project Manager or other NLU Management Team member prior to implementation.
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Uses their understanding of project management phases, techniques and tools to leverage project potential and assist Project Manager.
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Maintain healthy relationships with customers and key vendors; Highly customer responsive, sensitive and caring.
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May develop project estimates.
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Strong communication skills, both verbally and written, and the ability to effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization.
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Become and remain proficient in all computer programs necessary to perform the everyday duties of the position.
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Any other duties as assigned by manager.
Position Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering or related field is preferred. A high school diploma with 3-5 years of experience in the electrical construction industry or related field will be considered. Skilled in Microsoft application software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.); Ability to quickly learn new technology. Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgment, and assertiveness. The ability to be self-directed once responsibilities and vision are communicated. Excellent customer service and ability to understand customer expectations and contractual requirements. Associate Project Management Certification (CAPM) a plus.
Northline Utilities, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
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Company Overview: The company prides itself on the team’s ability to take on high-profile, challenging projects involving several stakeholders, stringent schedule and progress reporting requirements, and multi-subcontractor coordination. The company’s core proficiencies lie in the construction, maintenance, and upgrade of electric distribution systems, substations, and transmission lines. Northline has a strong regional reputation and a demonstrated track record of strong organic growth in recent years.
Among Northline’s key competitive differentiators is a management culture that is heavily focused on safety and innovation, and a team of senior leaders with significant experience managing and growing businesses of various sizes. James Atkins, Northline’s President and Owner, began his career as a third-generation Journeyman Lineman, and represents the industry through several industry and trade associations.
Job Title: Billing Specialist
Job Location: Au Sable Forks, NY
Job Type: Full-Time, Non-Exempt (Not contract)
Salary: Hourly position; $19.00 – $25.00 / hour*
Travel: Occasional local and regional travel for training purposes (less than 10%)
*(compensation may vary based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other factors)
Position Overview: The Billing Specialist supports Northline’s financial operations by preparing and processing customer invoices, maintaining accurate billing and accounts receivable records, and assisting with project-related billing activities. This role collaborates with project teams, customers, and the finance department to help ensure billing accuracy, timely submission, and consistent adherence to company policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities:
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Provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions, equipment, and systems of work for self and all employees, and to participate in training as needed for this purpose.
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Assist with project contract set-ups, schedule of values and maintenance within the accounting software.
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Adherence to corporate billing policy within the organization.
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Report on customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities and actively pursue their resolution.
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Maintain thorough, well-organized accounts receivable customer files, especially clients’ accounts payable contacts and billing requirements.
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Create and submit accurate customer invoices in a timely manner.
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Crosstrain within the finance department and provide back-up for other departmental functions.
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Create and distribute monthly customer billing statements.
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Establish a rapport with customers.
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Strong communication skills, both verbally and written, and the ability to effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization.
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Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with critical deadlines.
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Any other duties/special projects as outlined by Billing Manager.
Position Requirements:
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Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.).
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Skilled in other office related software products (Adobe, PDF, Ariba).
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Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgment, assertiveness.
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The ability to be self-directed once assignments and responsibilities are communicated.
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Demonstrates sound business ethics and consistently adheres to and promotes the values and principles of Northline in all business and personal transactions.
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Knowledge of Timberline Sage 300 / Viewpoint Vista preferred.
Northline Utilities, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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