Project Manager Electric Utilities
Leidos
- Westwood, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Independently manage capital transmission 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 transmission 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in one the following disciplines: Engineering, Construction, Business, Finance or closely related
- A minimum of 5+ years’ of relevant Project Management experience
- Previous work experience within the electric power industry and knowledge of business issues associated with power delivery services.
- Familiarity with industry regulatory environment for electric utilities.
- Must demonstrate recent and in-depth expertise in electric power infrastructure projects within transmission design.
- Must have the capability for planning, organizing, directing and tracking technical efforts on assigned tasks.
- Should be capable of tracking cost and schedule status of assigned tasks
- Ability to take direction from and discuss decisions with supervisor, and to coordinate with peers on project
- Must be able to interact with customer representatives in an effective manner in briefings meetings
- Must have demonstrated success with a team approach to the consulting business
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills
- PMP Certification is preferred but not required; Ideal Candidates will have a desire to obtain PMP Certification within two years
- Periodic travel is required; Candidates should possess valid US driver's license