Principal Project Manager

Project Manager

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of project management experience, or Associate's degree with 9+ years of project management experience
• Strong background managing large-scale commercial construction, electrical utility, or power systems projects
• Experience with project estimating, project controls, and project engineering
• Advanced project management knowledge in areas such as construction safety, contract negotiations, scope development and change control, cost estimating, construction contracting, scheduling, reporting, quality assurance, and risk management

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification
• Experience supporting transmission-related projects

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage assigned projects from initiation through completion, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations are met
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure adherence to established safety standards and procedures
• Develop, maintain, and coordinate project plans, schedules, budgets, staffing, and resource needs
• Monitor project costs and proactively adjust funding allocations as needed
• Provide regular status updates and communicate project details to leadership and stakeholders
• Facilitate planning meetings, outage coordination meetings, and executive-level presentations
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams, operations staff, contractors, vendors, and external partners
• Drive collaboration, customer satisfaction, and successful project delivery
• Offer guidance to improve processes, systems, schedules, and cost efficiency
• Provide informed leadership and challenge decisions when necessary to support project success
• Supervise up to two team members, including performance management and professional development planning
• Mentor junior project managers and support team growth