Project Manager Electric Utilities
Leidos
- Seattle, WA
- $68,900-124,550 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Independently manage utility programs and projects, ensuring all phases of approved project assignments are completed efficiently and within scope, schedule and budget.
- Interface with utility management personnel groups including planning, asset management, engineering, construction, siting, public outreach, and regulatory relations, legal and administrative departments.
- Manage various sized utility projects for public-owned and investor-owned electric utilities
- Ensure project costs, schedule and scope are managed, including the development of recovery plans, to stay within stakeholder approve project parameters.
- Client stakeholder engagement will involve progress reporting, capital expenditure forecasting, earned value financial management, schedule adherence and risk mitigation across a portfolio of substation, transmission and distribution projects.
- Lead a team of assistant project managers, project schedulers, project controllers, siting and public outreach personnel, environmental and permitting personnel and multi-discipline engineering departments that are assigned to project work.
- Consistently communicate and work with ease across multiple program and function support areas including: client, project teams, functional leadership, subcontractors, and support personnel.
- Assist client procurement and estimating departments with the preparation of bid documents, development of requests for proposal responses and cost estimates.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project dashboard reports and KPI tracking.
- Oversee various and specific proposal development efforts that accurately defines the project scope, schedule and budgets.
- Manage the development of required outage and construction execution plans.
- Ensure a good working relationship between the project team, line managers, and interfacing organizations.
- Write comprehensive and technical and project reports.
- Coordinate client billing and invoice resolution.
- Plan and prepare budgets.
- Support/enforce Quality Control and Quality Assurance.
- Develop, maintain, and coordinate project schedules.
- Perform field activities and attend site visits as necessary to support project execution.
- Support and oversee construction through Construction Management activities.
- Bachelor’s degree in one the following disciplines: Engineering, Construction, Business, Finance or closely related
- A minimum of 3+ years’ of relevant Project Management experience
- Previous work experience within the electric power industry and knowledge of business issues associated with power delivery service is required
- Familiarity with industry regulatory environment for electric utilities.
- Must demonstrate recent and in-depth expertise in electric power infrastructure projects within distribution, substation or transmission.
- Experience with MS Project, Primavera P6, or related scheduling platforms
- Strong Written and verbal communication skills are required
- PMP Certification is preferred but not required; Ideal Candidates will have a desire to obtain PMP Certification within two years
- Candidates with experience in a consulting environment will be preferred
- Construction management or field experience is preferred but not required.
- Periodic travel is required; Candidates should possess valid US driver's license
- Should be capable of tracking cost and schedule status of assigned tasks
- Will have the ability to take direction from and discuss decisions with supervisor, and to coordinate with peers on project
- Will have the capability for planning, organizing, directing and tracking technical efforts on assigned tasks.
- Must be able to interact with customer representatives in an effective manner in briefings meetings
PowerDeliveryOriginal Posting Date: 2024-04-09While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range: Pay Range $68,900.00 - $124,550.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.