Director of Utility & Infrastructure Coordination in Phoenix, Arizona at LGE

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Director of Utility & Infrastructure Coordination owns dry utility coordination – electric, gas, and telecommunications – across all active LGE Design Build projects in Arizona. This role exists because utility availability has repeatedly surfaced as a critical-path risk late in project delivery – discovered only near completion rather than managed from the outset. Unlike a builder or business-development role, this is a hands-on, technical liaison position: success is measured by problems caught and resolved months before they threaten a schedule, not by scale of team built. The right person is equally comfortable in a utility company's engineering office and in a project trailer, and treats “we found out late” as a personal failure condition.

This role is intentionally NOT a delegator or oversight function. Unlike a director role that manages primarily through a team, this position's impact comes from direct technical engagement – plan review, utility company relationships, and daily schedule tracking across every AZ project. There is no team to build initially; the mandate is hands-on ownership of utility risk across the entire portfolio, not oversight of others doing that work.

MAIN CRITICAL OUTCOME (MCO)

Zero project delays attributable to dry utility availability – every AZ project reaches temporary and permanent energization/service activation on or ahead of the APS/SRP/Southwest Gas/telecom-provider-confirmed schedule.

THE OBSESSIONS

These are the standing performance obsessions for this role. They are not a soft culture statement – they are the specific dimensions this role is reviewed against, alongside the MCO.

Utility Risk Surfaced Early, Never Late – Power, gas, and telecom capacity, queue position, and service/energization timeline confirmed with APS, SRP, Southwest Gas, and telecom/fiber providers at site selection/entitlement, not discovered near completion.Zero Surprises at Closeout – No AZ project reaches substantial completion without a confirmed, documented energization/service-activation date on file for every dry utility.The Utility Company Knows Our Name – Proactive, named relationships with APS, SRP, Southwest Gas, and telecom/fiber provider planning/engineering contacts, maintained continuously – not built from scratch under deadline pressure.One Schedule, No Translation Gaps – Utility milestones – electric, gas, and telecom – live inside the master project schedule; PMs, supers, owners, and developers are never guessing what any utility's timeline means for theirs.Documented, Not Tribal Knowledge – A standardized utility tracker and process exists across every AZ project and every utility type, independent of any one person's memory or contact list.