Senior Manager, Project Management-Power Delivery

About this role

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We are seeking a Senior Manager, Project Management-Power Delivery to lead and grow our Project Management Organization within the Grid Engineering & Analytics team. In this leadership role, you will be responsible for overseeing a team of project managers, strengthening project delivery practices, driving portfolio performance, and ensuring the successful execution of engineering and consulting projects serving utility clients nationwide.

You will work closely with engineering leaders, project managers, business development professionals, clients, and corporate support functions to deliver projects safely, efficiently, and profitably while supporting the continued growth of our organization. The ideal candidate combines strong project delivery expertise, people leadership, and business acumen, and measures success by how well the project managers around them perform.

Our team is passionate about re-engineering how electric utilities solve their toughest challenges. We combine innovation, technical rigor, and a client-first mindset to deliver exceptional engineering solutions across planning, design, analysis, modernization, and construction support services. This role plays a critical part in developing project management talent, improving project performance, and ensuring consistent execution across a diverse portfolio of utility projects.

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven leader with experience managing project managers and delivering complex engineering, consulting, EPC, or utility infrastructure projects.

• Exceptional communicator who builds credibility with clients, project teams, technical leaders, and executive stakeholders while effectively resolving challenges and competing priorities.

• Strategic thinker who understands how engineering project execution, financial performance, client satisfaction, and workforce development contribute to long-term business growth.

• Natural coach and mentor who develops project managers through training, honest performance feedback, and real career paths, and who builds a culture of accountability, collaboration, and client service around them.

• Highly organized and proactive, with the ability to identify project risks, resource constraints, and delivery challenges before they impact clients or business performance.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead and manage the Grid Engineering Project Management Organization, providing leadership, coaching, and professional development to a team of project managers and engineers supporting power delivery projects across multiple disciplines.

• Establish and maintain engineering project management standards, governance processes, tools, and best practices that promote consistent project execution and predictable delivery outcomes.

• Own portfolio performance and the reporting behind it: track schedule, budget, profitability, earned value, change orders, backlog, and client satisfaction across the portfolio, surface the delivery risks and trends the numbers point to, and produce the dashboards and forecasts leadership plans against.

• Partner with engineering managers and technical leaders to sequence project priorities and put the right project manager on each project and pursuit, escalating the resource conflicts that cannot be solved inside the portfolio.

• Provide executive oversight for high-profile, high-risk, or strategically important engineering projects and pursuits, stepping in personally when one is in trouble.

• Support project managers in contract administration, scope management, change management, financial forecasting, risk mitigation, and client communications.

• Partner with business development on the technical and commercial substance of a pursuit: project approach, execution plan, schedule and cost basis, risk assessment, and capture strategy.

• Lead project manager recruiting, onboarding, training, succession planning, and performance management activities to ensure the organization maintains a strong project leadership pipeline.

• Work with the Delivery Manager and with finance, contracts, legal, and quality to fix the project execution processes that slow delivery down, bringing the pattern rather than the one-off ticket.

• Champion company safety, quality, compliance, professional development, and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the Project Management Organization.

What You Need to Have (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.

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8+ years of experience delivering projects for electric utilities, EPC firms, engineering consulting organizations, or related infrastructure industries.

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5+ years of experience leading project managers, project delivery teams, or project management organizations.

• Demonstrated experience managing project portfolios consisting of multiple concurrent projects, clients, and stakeholder groups.

• Deep working knowledge of project management methodology, project controls, and risk management, plus hands-on experience managing project financial performance including revenue forecasting, profitability, earned value, change management, and budget control.

• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and organizational skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Proven ability to navigate complex business environments and manage competing priorities effectively.

• Ability to travel for client meetings, project reviews, leadership meetings, conferences, recruiting activities, and organizational planning sessions.

What We'd Like You to Have (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience leading project management organizations supporting transmission, distribution, substations, protection and controls, grid modernization, renewable interconnection, or utility infrastructure programs.

• Demonstrated success managing large, complex, or strategically significant utility projects and portfolios.

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